[DM-MUG] Airport Extreme Issues?

Arne Quanbeck dmmug at arnequanbeck.com
Fri Feb 5 10:00:21 CST 2010


I had that issue with an older Extreme. I found resetting to factory  
results would fix it for a month (it was used infrequently), but then  
I'd have to repeat the process. I ended up swapping it out for the  
Wireless-N version, which solved the problem.

On Feb 5, 2010, at 5:39, James Corbett <james.corbett1 at mac.com> wrote:

>
> Good Morning,
>
> I have the last version of the Airport Extreme and I am having  
> issues with the wireless connection just dropping off and after a  
> few it will just connect and work for a while and then disconnect  
> again. I contacted Mediacom on the cable modem thinking it could be  
> that and everything looks great on that end. I then reboot the  
> Extreme and it will work for about a hour or so and go right back  
> dropping connections. I have never had any issues in the past and  
> this just started about a month ago. I have a newer Mac Mini  
> connected to it as well as a older MacBook and a three year old  
> Windows XP box.
>
> Does it look like I will have to replace it? I do have the logs if  
> anyone knows how to read that sort of stuff. I looked at them, but I  
> am not well verse in the Mac aspects of networking, since my work  
> only uses Windows and that is my bread and butter. Any advice would  
> be great.
>
> James Corbett
>
>
>
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