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How to change Airport Express network NAME . . Please help.

lugesm

lugesm

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Sep 7, 2007
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Just installed my very first wireless network: Airport Extreme. NOT AIRPORT EXPRESS

Stumbled through the installation, and everything works.

However, in the process the software apparently selected a network name for me; and I would very much like to change that network name. I have crawled through the Network Preferences under System Preferences, but I can't find a way to do this.

Can someone please help? Thanks.
 
Just open, AirPort Utility, and set the network up again. That's the only way to change the name of the network.

Don
 
Dmac77 said:
Just open, AirPort Utility, and set the network up again. That's the only way to change the name of the network.

Don
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Thank you, Don.

BTW, I installed the utility on the CD that came with Airport Extreme on my Mac from which I set up the Airport Extreme, but I did not install that utility on the CD on my other Macs.

Should I have used it on all my computers?

Thanks.
L
 
You only really need the utility on one computer.. however I think the Airport Utility comes standard with Tiger/Leopard installs.. so you may just have to do a software update and have it on the other computers.
 
i tried that

I was also trying to change the name of my wireless network. I went into airport utility and reset up the network, as someone here suggested. I now have a network with the new name, but the old name also makes the internet accessible. Does anyone know how I get rid of the old one?
 
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