Airport Express (802.11n) Issues

[Tegeril]

I've had this thing in place since it came out. I use an Airport Extreme (Gigabit) to broadcast a 5GHz 802.11n only wireless network (Wheee N). I then have an ethernet cable plugged into the Airport Express and have the express set in bridge mode (so it just acts as a wireless access point) and broadcasts an 802.11n/802.11g mixed 2.4GHz network (Wheee G).

Recently, the Airport Express will just drop all of its wireless clients and not show up on searches for wireless networks using a variety of clients (iPhone, Dell laptop, my MBP which is on Wheee N with no issue, Xbox 360 wireless adapter, Netgear 2.4GHz N USB adapter on my htpc). Looking at Airport Utility the device reports no errors, shows that it has the appropriate settings for a bridged device (shows the router's IP address, has its own address, shows the router as the DNS server, the domain name that the router gets from comcast, etc).

Channel is set to automatic and wireless security is WPA/WPA2 Personal. Sometimes just changing a setting and hitting update will kick the wireless functionality back into action, but other times I have to unplug it, and yet a few other times, even after unplugged and plugging back in, it still fails to broadcast wireless again (this time, for example).

I'm not sure what to do really...

 

[Tegeril]

Well, I left it unplugged for a longer period of time and it seems to have let my iPhone connect to it again... but seriously? Should I go exchange this thing at an Apple store?

 

[Tegeril]

And it just wont go back to working now. It lets wireless clients on for a few minutes, and then kicks them all off again. UGH.

 

[aphex]

hold down the reset and plug it into the wall while holding it down. It does a hard reset and resets it back to factory defaults

 

[Tegeril]

Thx, will give it a shot 🙂