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Hi,
I'm hoping someone can shed a little light on a strange problem.
I have a few Mac's in my house (Macbook Air, 2 iMac's and a Mini). I have a 2TB Time Capsule for Time machine and also to provide a wireless network. The wireless network is insecure (no WPA) but uses MAC address filtering to allow or decline wireless access.
The Time Capsule is running version 7.5.2 firmware and all Mac's are running Airport Utility version 5.5.2.
Airport Utility (from any Mac) can find the Time Capsule but when I try to add a new wireless devices MAC address (under Access Control) and UPDATE the message says it has been sent to the Time Capsule and it's restarting but the green light never changes state on the Time capsule and the UPDATE is never applied. After the UPDATE button is clicked the wireless network (although still showing) is not connected to the Internet and times out if you open Google. The ONLY way of then finding the Time Capsule in Airport Utility again and also regaining Internet connection is to cycle the power on the Time Capsule.
Now the strange part...I performed soft reset on the Time Capsule and it made no difference to the UPDATE issue so I then performed a hard reset and input all the settings again. I was then able to add MAC addresses and UPDATE correctly.....for a while. I thought I'd sorted it but the next day it again refused to accept any UPDATE of the settings and so I'm back to square one.
I have tried Airport Utility whilst connected to the Time Capsule both wirelessly and also wired and I get the same fault. I have tried downgrading the firmware on the Time Capsule and also use an earlier version of Airport Utility but again it makes no difference.
Any one else had this fault?
Any ideas anyone can give will be very gratefully received as I'm really at a loss as to what to do next.
Many thanks
Mark
I'm hoping someone can shed a little light on a strange problem.
I have a few Mac's in my house (Macbook Air, 2 iMac's and a Mini). I have a 2TB Time Capsule for Time machine and also to provide a wireless network. The wireless network is insecure (no WPA) but uses MAC address filtering to allow or decline wireless access.
The Time Capsule is running version 7.5.2 firmware and all Mac's are running Airport Utility version 5.5.2.
Airport Utility (from any Mac) can find the Time Capsule but when I try to add a new wireless devices MAC address (under Access Control) and UPDATE the message says it has been sent to the Time Capsule and it's restarting but the green light never changes state on the Time capsule and the UPDATE is never applied. After the UPDATE button is clicked the wireless network (although still showing) is not connected to the Internet and times out if you open Google. The ONLY way of then finding the Time Capsule in Airport Utility again and also regaining Internet connection is to cycle the power on the Time Capsule.
Now the strange part...I performed soft reset on the Time Capsule and it made no difference to the UPDATE issue so I then performed a hard reset and input all the settings again. I was then able to add MAC addresses and UPDATE correctly.....for a while. I thought I'd sorted it but the next day it again refused to accept any UPDATE of the settings and so I'm back to square one.
I have tried Airport Utility whilst connected to the Time Capsule both wirelessly and also wired and I get the same fault. I have tried downgrading the firmware on the Time Capsule and also use an earlier version of Airport Utility but again it makes no difference.
Any one else had this fault?
Any ideas anyone can give will be very gratefully received as I'm really at a loss as to what to do next.
Many thanks
Mark