[P1] airport base station problem

Seeker bobgir at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 23 12:09:51 PST 2004


Dan - 

    Recently bought a used Graphite ABS and a used Linksys router and saved
a number of sites which I stumbled across when searching out info on both.

    Here's a note I made for myself:
 
Lots of info on ABS's, including on upgrading Graphites here:
http://www.vonwentzel.net/ABS/

    Here's an example of some of what you'll find there:


How to:
    €     Make Apple replace your broken Airport Base Station or repair it
yourself
 Note: The repair instructions also apply to similar products from Lucent,
HP, etc. that are based on the same hardware.
    €     Attach an External Antenna to your ABS.
    €     Add passive ventilation two ways: Quickly or Elegantly. Either
choice results in a remarkably cool ABS that runs happily ever after.
    €     Reset the firmware in your Graphite ABS after the capacitor repair
    €     Build a Universal Power Supply for your Graphite ABS.
    €     Retrofit active cooling to your ABS - complete overkill IMHO.
Plus, electromechanical cooling will always be less reliable than simple,
quiet, and effective passive ventilation holes.
    €     Make the Graphite base station transparent... with results here.
Considering all the unappetizing plastic inside an ABS, I'm not sure it's
 worth it.


Informational Material:
    €     How the internal power supply works
    €     Pictures and specifications of the version 1.1 power supply
    €     Component Mystery solved!

    And there's more.

    Cheers, bob



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