![]() If your ISP has IPv6 support, they will assign you a large block of addresses. This is automatically generated as a part of enabling the interface. All of my routers (various models from Linksys, mostly) have also had support for a very long time.Īs for addressing, you will find that most devices have multiple IPv6 addresses.Įvery device will have a link-local address (which begins with FE80:: and ends with the name of the interface/link that it is associated with, like %en0). Others, including AT&T and Verizon have taken much longer and may not be rolling it out even today.Īs for consumer devices, macOS, Windows and Linux have had support for a very long time. Comcast has had it deployed for quite some time (I’ve had it for over six years). IPv6 support depends on your service provider. Would slower and erratic Wi-Fi from the AirPort Express indicate that it is dying? Is there some setting that I should check? I have done a full reset (press the little button for 10 seconds) and unplugged and replugged the ethernet cables, both with no apparent change in symptoms. Ethernet directly connected to the ISP’s device is about the same as Wi-Fi from the Time Capsule. Wi-Fi from a Time Capsule usually starts more reliably and ends just under 50 Mbps (which is what I’m paying for). 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. 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. I tried to ping the AirPort Extreme and the MBAir with no luck.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. I also tried giving the AirPort Extreme a .x address. Clicking on the AirPort Extreme in AirPort Utility shows "connection Unknown" and there's an orange bubble next to "Wireless Network". I entered my existing wireless network name and security information but the AirPort Extreme doesn't seem to be able to connect. ![]() I also tried to hook it up as a new wireless network and manually changed to "Extend a wireless network". It then says to hook a cable up to my router and then says it can't find a base station and won't complete the setup. ![]() I tried to do "Add to an existing network" when first connecting the AirPort Extreme (that seemed like the closest option to bridge mode). Does anyone know how (or if) my AirPort Extreme can be setup in bridge mode? I want to hook the Airport Extreme up to my MacBook Air (wired) so I can connect to my wireless network through the AirPort Extreme. ![]()
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