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iPhone looses Airport Express when playing music

b-rad g

b-rad g

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Have an Express joined to my Time Capsule network to play music to. The iPhone hooks up fine in the beginning and plays fine for about 5 minutes, but then it starts cutting out and eventually looses the AirTunes icon. Anyone know why it's loosing the connection?
 
b-rad g said:
Have an Express joined to my Time Capsule network to play music to. The iPhone hooks up fine in the beginning and plays fine for about 5 minutes, but then it starts cutting out and eventually looses the AirTunes icon. Anyone know why it's loosing the connection?
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I have the same set up and the same problem. I hope someone knows. I've been trying to figure this out for months. One interesting thing to note is I moved a few months ago, I had the same set up before and it worked perfectly. Not I have a new internet provider, Primecast, and that is when the problems started. I think it might have to do with my IP address. Before I was on a fixed IP from Comcast, now the IP is no longer fixed. I'm wondering if this is causing the problem.
 
Reefbone said:
Did it work flawlessly before or are you just getting it set up? Have you assciated it with iTunes?
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This is the first time I am using it so it has never been set up before. Not quite sure what you mean by having it associated with iTunes. I looked under the settings for the Express and it has "Allow iTunes AirPlay" or something like that checked on.

It will connect fine but after about 5-10 minutes it will drop the connection, one time it dropped WiFi altogether and I had to reconnect to my WiFi network.
 
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Still having this problem. Have done a "Hard Reset" of the Express and still cutting out. Anyone else have suggestions?
 
b-rad g said:
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Still having this problem. Have done a "Hard Reset" of the Express and still cutting out. Anyone else have suggestions?
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Have you tried removing the time machine from the equation just to eliminate any variables?

My airport express never drops out ever. I do not use time machine.

I run airport express, apple tv, several idevices, iTunes in my Pc laptop. Can stream audio, video, control apple tv. It all works and never has any issues.

I would also consider taking the express to an apple store and see if it's defective. Hardware can fail or be intermittent.
 
patp said:
Have you tried removing the time machine from the equation just to eliminate any variables?

My airport express never drops out ever. I do not use time machine.

I run airport express, apple tv, several idevices, iTunes in my Pc laptop. Can stream audio, video, control apple tv. It all works and never has any issues.

I would also consider taking the express to an apple store and see if it's defective. Hardware can fail or be intermittent.
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Will try this tonight. I'll just set up the Express as a different network and see how it does.

Does the Apple Store have a hardware test or something they run on it? How would they find out if it is defective?
 
Fixed!!!!!

Seems as if I have found my solution to my problem. I used my wife's iphone to stream Pandora to the Express for Airtunes and not one single cutout or loss of signal. So I tried to see all the differences between her phone and mine. First I thought it might be the App itself so I deleted it off my phone and reinstalled. No dice, still cutting out.

Finally I noticed that her Bluetooth wasn't turned on. I keep mine on since I use it everyday at work. I thought maybe the BT being on but not connected to anything was interfering with Airtunes. SUCCESS!!!! I turned my BT off and have been streaming Pandora through Airtunes for the past 3 hours and no cutouts or loss of connection. It's perfect!:D:D

Just thought I would give an update to my problem since some others were having the same situation.
 
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