I simply select it, click “Add”, and it’s now a new printer I can select when printing from any Mac application. Start it, click “Add+” to add a new printer, and select “Bonjour” if it isn’t automatically selected. Now you can quit the Airport Admin Utility because you want to launch a different program, Printer Setup Utility. If your printer isn’t recognized, check out the help material from Apple to remedy the problem, but most likely it’ll be fine.Īlmost done, believe it or not. This time, choose View –> Summary and see if your printer is recognized: Once you’re online, go back into the Airport Admin Utility and select the Airport Express again. Probably, you’ll need to reselect it the first time if you’ve renamed the network, but that’s easily accomplished. Make all the changes you desire, then click on “Update” and let the device restart with its new configuration options.
#APPLE AIRPORT EXPRESS PASSWORD#
Worth noting is that this is where I can change the administrative password (click on “Change password…”), change the broadcast name of the network (mine’s called “hardcopy” since it’s for the printer device) and add a password to the wireless network you’re creating (click “Change Wireless Security…”). I select it, enter the password (I strongly recommend you set an admin password so no-one else can monkey with your unit, btw!) and now I see this: Mine has the snazzy name “Base Station 0064c3”, as you can see. Start that and it should immediately see your device:
You can check that by connecting to the Express network (which might be called something like “Apple Network 0c0037” or similar) and launching Airport Admin Utility. Hopefully your Airport Express will display the cheery green light meaning all is well, and have identified the type of printer you’ve hooked up. Then plug in your printer via the USB connection, then cycle power on your printer after you’ve plugged it into the Airport Express. While it should theoretically be possible to have the device just serve up your printer on its own wireless network, I found that the Airport Express was cranky about starting up on a power cycle without a live Ethernet plug. The first step you’ll need to do is make sure that your printer and Airport Express are being plugged in reasonably close to your Ethernet network hub or router. What I ended up doing was reseting the Airport Express three or four times (which was a pain! Fortunately, it’s documented here) and fiddling with various settings until I got everything to work properly. On June 11 at the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference, the 2nd generation AirPort Express was introduced with a new design and dual-band support of 802.11n over 2.4 and 5 GHz networks.Your timing is excellent: I just recently set up one of these networks myself and found it rather tricky, truth be told. Support was later added for the draft specification of the 802.11n protocol.Ģnd-generation Airport Express 2nd generation About 7 years ago Apple stopped supporting the original AirPort Express in the AirPort Utility, but there was still a workaround if you could get the old. Airport Express can also be used to easily expand wireless coverage via WDS-bridging. Audio-out supports digital optical and analog output. Now called AirPlay, the functionality requires iTunes 4.6, or newer. Airport Express supports AirTunes, which allows audio to be streamed over wireless network to the Airport Express, which then outputs the audio through its audio-out to stereos, for example. Much smaller than the full-sized AirPort Base Station, it held the title for the smallest AirPort router in existence, and included audio-out, USB for wireless printing, and an ethernet port.
The original Airport Express used the 802.11g specification.
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