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Stupid airport question #382 - BernDog - 07-15-2015
My internet is currently down (verified through my isp). Is there any reason my AirPort Extreme would not work as a LAN without a working Internet connection? I'd like to stream a movie from my iMac to my Apple TV (as I often do), but I can't get a solid green light on the airport since my internet went down (modem is not connecting to ISP...problem is verified on their end). Is there any reason that those two things (Internet vs LAN) shouldn't be mutually exclusive of each other?
Re: Stupid airport question #382 - BernDog - 07-16-2015
Never mind. Figured it out. Since the Internet is down, I was getting a blinking yellow as a error message. I had to go into airport utility to dismiss the error, and now all is good. Seems to me the parts that work without internet should not get shut down completely, automatically.
Very non-intuitive, and not a proper default action to me, but whatever.
Re: Stupid airport question #382 - Onamuji - 07-16-2015
BernDog wrote:
Never mind. Figured it out. Since the Internet is down, I was getting a blinking yellow as a error message. I had to go into airport utility to dismiss the error, and now all is good. Seems to me the parts that work without internet should not get shut down completely, automatically.
They don't.
Something else was going on.
Re: Stupid airport question #382 - silvarios - 07-16-2015
Yeah, my memory of using an Airport Extreme, granted an older 4th gen model, says Ona is right. My Plex and CCC network backups always continued working during a net outage.
Re: Stupid airport question #382 - GuyGene - 07-16-2015
Yep, that was a stupid one alright
miley-laughing001::confused:Just jestin'
Re: Stupid airport question #382 - silvarios - 07-16-2015
Which model Extreme? I suppose a recent firmware update to an older model or the newest AC model could behave differently than in my heyday.
Re: Stupid airport question #382 - BernDog - 07-16-2015
4th gen, up to date at 7.6.4. I restarted the router multiple times and it always came back to flashing yellow. Several alerts in airport utility. I think one was that wan was down, one was that it couldn't get an ip (because the wan was down), and I don't remember the third. When I dismissed them, the router reset itself automatically and it went to green.
Re: Stupid airport question #382 - silvarios - 07-16-2015
BernDog wrote:
4th gen, up to date at 7.6.4. I restarted the router multiple times and it always came back to flashing yellow. Several alerts in airport utility. I think one was that wan was down, one was that it couldn't get an ip (because the wan was down), and I don't remember the third. When I dismissed them, the router reset itself automatically and it went to green.
That's normal. We meant the LAN should have kept working even with the blinking yellow light caused by the WAN outage. Green light isn't required for LAN functionality. For instance, I once ignored a firmware update for a month, because of a bug, and my Airport happily kept working with the blinking yellow light, both WAN and LAN in that case.
In another instance, I had a double NAT setup and I let the Airport blink for maybe two months with everything working fine in the interim, both WAN and LAN on account of nothing actually being wrong.
Re: Stupid airport question #382 - silvarios - 07-16-2015
Sure, dismissing the error will bring back the the green light and that is more aesthetically pleasing, but depending on the error/warning, you can simply ignore the light.
Re: Stupid airport question #382 - BernDog - 07-16-2015
silvarios wrote:
Sure, dismissing the error will bring back the the green light and that is more aesthetically pleasing, but depending on the error/warning, you can simply ignore the light.
That's how I thought it SHOULD have worked, except nothing worked until I did it. Must have just been some weird voodoo snafu. It might have worked just as well if I went outside, did a rain dance, and smashed an egg on my crotch.