Has anybody else experienced difficulty streaming music from iTunes 10.5 to Airport Express and found a resolve?
I'm not sure whether it's an iTunes issue or a more general 10.7.2 wireless issue, but first time I've ever had an issue streaming to Airport Express. Airport Express has latest firmware. I start off with iTunes not being able to see Airport Express as a speaker option. Upon restarting Airport Express, iTunes could see it, but after selecting Airport Express as the speaker option, iTunes tries to connect for 15 or 20 seconds, but fails. I then reset to factory the Airport Express, rejoined it to the network, and it worked for a while. But having stopped streaming and coming back to do so again after a few hours, no more Air Express in either iTunes as a speaker option, nor visible via Airport Utility, despite Airport Express showing a solid green light. I've also taken to hardwiring my Time Capsule to my MacBook Pro because wireless backups have become troublesome too frequently, as in backups just not taking hold or taking forever. This is a pain because I have an iMac backing up to the TC as well, too far away to be hardwired. Something else I've had trouble with are the kids' MacBooks not being able to see the network. I eventually resolved this by manually assigning IP addresses on those MacBooks. In case it's relevant, the wireless network I have is issued by an Optus-provided-and-configured CVG824G v3. I wonder if it's not that this device, or the Optus configuration, which gives me all the grief. But if it issues a wireless network which I can satisfactorily access from, for instance, the MBP I'm sending this message from, then why would it give me grief when it comes to other functions operating over the network? Could too many gadgets talking to the network be the problem? Apart from my MBP, there's an iMac, a wireless HP All-In-One, an iPhone, potentially three Nokia X5s, and a couple of MacBooks on an adhoc infrequent basis. I'm out of my league with this comment, but would manually assigning IPs to all devices be a potential solution? I say it only on the back of seemingly having solved the MacBook problems I used to have. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
