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[agenrsmith]

I bought a new Apple Airport Express (N) which I plan to use exclusively as a media player accepting iTunes music from my Thinkpad R61 PC with GE port and Draft-N. 

Router is DIR-655, just upgraded to 1.21

I have turned off wireless on the Airport Express and connect it using a CAT5 cable to the DIR55 through a simple 10/100 LAN switch.

Somehow iTunes in the Thinkpad cannot see the Airport Express either when the Thinkpad is connected through Wired or Wireless connection alone.  Both wired and wireless (in the THinkpad) has to be connected to the network.  If I unplug one of the connections fron the TP, iTunes cannot see the Airport Express.

Any idea what could be causing this?  Both the wired and wireless are in the same IP range.

(One more complication, yesterday I changed my wireless authentication from WEP (54Mbos) to WPA2/AES (130Mbps), and somehow iTunes saw the AppleTV with wireless only only momentarily.)  And for some reason, it stopped working today.  I know this sounds suspicious but I did not change anything since yesterday.  Now it returns to only working with both wired and wireless connected to the Thinkpad)

Any help appreciated.

[agenrsmith]

Any idea folks?

[jdm]

Four hours with Apple support today: conclusion is WPA settings on DIR-655 are incompatible with Airport Express. It can be used wired to the DIR-655 to create a second network, but that is of little value.