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SLOW initial connection with Airport Express
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Everything has been fine with my Airport Express for the past several months. But for the past week or so, it's taken nearly a minute for my Airport card to recognize and connect to the Airport Express. My network is in my office and I am literally three feet away from the device. Once connected, my signal is strong and fine.
I have a Linksys router at home and I am able to connect immediately. My Airport Express is not password protected. Does anybody have any ideas on what may be causing the connection delay? Any suggestions on how to "fix" it? Thank you.
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When does this delay occur? Do you mean that you wake up your machine and the Airport icon in the menu bar takes a full minute before you have signal? Have you tried simply power cycling the base station?
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Originally Posted by ibook_steve 
When does this delay occur? Do you mean that you wake up your machine and the Airport icon in the menu bar takes a full minute before you have signal? Have you tried simply power cycling the base station?
Yes, when I get to the office, open the lid on my PB, it sometimes takes a minute or so before I have signal. When I click on the icon in the menu bar (before I have signal), the Airport Express isn't even showing up initially. How do I power cycle the station?
(Completely unrelated: I have to sign-in EVERY time I come the forums even though my cookies are enabled. Is that something new MacNN has implemented?)
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I did a soft reset but upon waking from sleep, it still is taking 30 or more seconds of searching before the Airport finds and connects with the Airport Express.
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Originally Posted by Buck_W
Yes, when I get to the office, open the lid on my PB, it sometimes takes a minute or so before I have signal. When I click on the icon in the menu bar (before I have signal), the Airport Express isn't even showing up initially. How do I power cycle the station?
This usually has nothing to do with the base station. Try setting up as a new network location for your Mac. Then connect to your base station and chose remember this network.
(Completely unrelated: I have to sign-in EVERY time I come the forums even though my cookies are enabled. Is that something new MacNN has implemented?)
I doubt this has anything to do with MacNN. It's probably a symptom of a bug in the recent 10.5.6 update.
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?...90106231316538
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You power cycle the router by turning it off (unplugging it) for like 10 seconds and then plug it back in. And this certainly could be the router. So try power cycling and if it doesn't work, try a fresh location as suggested.
Steve
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