SETUP APPLE AIRPORT EXPRESS VIA WIFI PLUS
SETUP APPLE AIRPORT EXPRESS VIA WIFI DOWNLOAD

Wi-Fi from a Time Capsule usually starts more reliably and ends just under 50 Mbps (which is what I’m paying for).

SETUP APPLE AIRPORT EXPRESS VIA WIFI DOWNLOAD

Speedtest reports that the AirPort Express download speed can be slow to start and then fluctuate, but it usually settles down to around 35-40 Mbps. This is on three different computers, but it is worst on the MacBook and best on the M1 MacBook Air, so there is some correlation to the specifications of the computer. “Slow to load” usually means slow to start loading, sometimes for 10 or more seconds and occasionally timing out. “Sometimes” is hard to quantify, but it might be 15% of the time. For other reasons, I used the iBook G4 recently, and while poking around, I found an old version of AirPort Utility that let me set “Blink on Activity” and also set the base station’s output power level.īut the reason for this post is that Wi-Fi through the AirPort Express seems to have intermittent problems, manifested by web pages sometimes taking a long time to load.

SETUP APPLE AIRPORT EXPRESS VIA WIFI PLUS

Why didn’t it work when I did that earlier? I don’t know, but perhaps enough restarts of devices plus putting iOS 14.4 on the iPhones and turning off Private Address all worked together to fix things.Ĭommenting on my post above, the light being on solidly is an option that the current version of AirPort Utility does not support, as far as I can tell. (The iPad already had it turned off.) In summary, it seems like was spot on with the suggestion to turn off Private Address.

(I needed to turn it off so the iPhones could connect to Wi-Fi and download iOS 14.4, then forgot to turn it back on.) I turned Timed Access Control back the iPad reconnected but neither iPhone did until I turned Private Address off. When I posted the above comment, Timed Access Control was turned off. As I said, I had restarted it multiple times before posting my question. That was the reason for the AirPort restart, which seems to have fixed all problems. I have downloaded but not installed iOS 14.4 on the newer iPhone, and I don’t know why it would have been reset.)įor what it’s worth, the new MacBook Air, which had connected previously, would connect but have a self-assigned IP address today. (I have just installed iOS 14.4 on the older iPhone, so that could be why Private Address had been reset on it.

However, both iPhones now have it turned on and are connected. Also, I had already discovered the Private Address setting, been bewildered, and turned it off to no avail. For other reasons, I restarted the AirPort Express (and I assure you that I had tried that multiple times before), and now both iPhones have connected.

Setup apple airport express via wifi