Comments on: Airport Express headaches

By: Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:04:49 +0000

Same here, $ in front of password. There's also a doc about this here.

By: markowitz1959

markowitz1959 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:04:20 +0000

Please note that this advice also works for those, like myself, using MAC address to limit access to the WiFi. Great advice, thanks a lot,

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:54:17 +0000

You just need to add an $ before the WEP password. For example: $57840403 etc.

By: john

john — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:42:18 +0000

this is great advice, thanks!!!

By: Jonas Larsen

Jonas Larsen — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:39:42 +0000

Thanks a lot!
I really had a lot of trouble with my airport but this solved it in 10 minutes.

My airport really disliked the WEP key and I had to do a factory reset before I could connect to it

By: dean cameron

dean cameron — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:23:22 +0000

i’m switching from a d-link to the airport extreme and would love to be able to have my hp wireless printer join the network without having to hook it up to one of my 2 precious airport express thingymabobs.

anyone whose experienced that sort of hookup?

By: Lorien

Lorien — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:18:29 +0000

Thanks! This helped me get my Express working in about 5 minutes.

By: Charlie M

Charlie M — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:16:29 +0000

I just upgraded my Airport Express firmware to v6.3. After that I couldn’t connect to my WEP enabled network. I was going to agree with you, and switch to WPA, until I checked another PC’s wireless and figured out the problem was with my Verizon FIOS Actiontec router. Once I rebooted that all was well again.

I remember having problems 3-4 years ago when I got my Airport Express. I spent a lot of time getting it on the network using WEP. The trick was putting a $ in front of the 26 character hex key (128-bit encryption). Since then it’s worked with a variety of wireless base stations, including a Cisco Aironet, a couple Linksys, and recently the Actiontec.

I’m considering switching to WPA soon, when we add a wireless printer to replace a 7 year old HP that’s on a JetDirect 175x Wireless Print server. I’d rather not mess with that again either. Encouraged to here WPA should be easier.

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:38:18 +0000

I did move to WPA. WEP was the default, and Verizon won’t talk to you about wireless connection issues if you’re using anything but WEP. So I left it there, not finding a really strong reason to switch. The printer gave me that reason.

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:36:17 +0000

Yeah, ditto the WEP comments. Must you or can you move to a version of WPA?