Flashing Amber Light, Unable to Reset
My network has always used Airports and I haven’t seen an issue this bad yet. My Network is set up like this: Modem—>Airport Extreme—>Airport Extreme—>Airport Extreme.
They are all physically wired together after I ran CAT cable through the attic and down the walls. The middle unit in the chain started flashing amber the other day. I figured it was simply an update. I checked Airport utility on my Mac, nothing. So I ignored it.
Because my room is at the end of the chain, near the 3rd Airport, I started to notice pretty bad download speeds. I attempted to reset the 2nd, problematic Airport, to factory defaults. However, the reset button doesn’t seem to work at all. Though, I hear and feel a click when attempting to reset. After I was out of ideas, I returned it to its usual spot, and now the entire chain of Airports are all out of wack and won’t reorder as they usually do. I understand I can just reset all of them to defaults but I can’t reset this problematic one…
I went to best buy to get a USB3.0 to Ethernet to try and connect the Airport to my Macbook and reset it that way, but I see nothing when connected on the Wi-Fi/Network menu or in Airport utility.
When it powers on, I get: solid green, solid amber, flashing amber. And I cannot get any other light sequence.
Suggestions? Is it worth opening up and trying anything inside? I also think maybe lighting might be to blame, as this Airport is not on a surge protector and here in Orlando we’ve had a barrage of terrible thunderstorms.
Questa è una buona domanda?
Alex, the USB port on the AirPort is not designed to be accessed by a system its only a drive or printer port for a shared resource (depending on the firmware rev)
What happens when you disconnect all of the connections and just plug in your system into the AirPort via an Ethernet cable are you able to see it via the AirPort utility?
da Dan
@danj Sorry for the confusion. I tried to access the Airport like this: Airport-->Ethernet Cable --> Ethernet to USB Adapter --> MacBook. I got this because the Air doesnt have a port.
You want me to try trying this again without power to the Airport? Or with Power?
da Alex Robinson
@danj I can also try connecting the Airport to my Hackintosh which has an ethernet port I can use.
da Alex Robinson
I'm assuming this is a USB-C port on your MacBook.
To clarify MacBook >> USB-C to Ethernet adapter >> Ethernet cable >> to one of the AirPort Ethernet ports.
da Dan
@danj 2014 MacBook Air. So, Macbook >> USB3.0 to Ethernet Adapter >> Ethernet Cable >> Airport
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