[CUBE] Airport card

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oh yes. i do remember that. it frequently lost the connection and 
browsing, downloading or fetching mail was interrupted... god, i hated 
it.
it turned out that the channel i had chosen and worked with for more 
than a year was disturbed by something. i could have been my neighbours 
microwave, a dect/wireless phone (although mine never made problems 
before, but what do i know of my neighbours new purchases...), the 
wireless tv-transmission (i could see distortion when the mac and the 
airport base station talked to each other) or just plain bad luck. i 
did try to move the airport, the cube, opened all doors, closed them, 
whatever i did didn't help, except for changing the channel. now i'm 
using channel 8 or 10, and since then it hasn't happened again.

i read a lot about this while it was bugging me, and it turned out that 
the old graphite base stations (the one i own) showed this behaviour 
before failing alltogether. there also was a description of what to do 
then (it's a burned out capacitor, as far as i remember). here's the 
full story: http://www.vonwentzel.net/ABS/Repair/index.html
the http://www.vonwentzel.net/ -site has generally some good info about 
the graphite base station for the technically inclined.

good luck.

wolf

On 17.03.2004, at 18:46, Alex M wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> My airport connection keeps dropping it's connection with my (original,
> graphite) Airport. I'm using 9.2.2 and this also happens with 10.1.5.
>
> The airport is only in the next room and the iMac downstairs gets 
> better
> reception. I can't say whether that drops out either but the problem 
> I'm
> having is intermittent.
>
> It bloody annoying also! To get it back, I usually have to open aiport 
> app,
> turn the airport off, then on, then off, then on again.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Alex