[X4U] Can an Airport Base station wear out?

[Markg5]

On 29/10/2004 9:18 pm, "Jeff Porten"  wrote:

> The symptom: my cable modem is silly fast; I've seen peak speeds of 700
> MBytes per second, and it's consistently doing 100-200 MBytes per
> second.  But over time, the speed degrades where it only peaks around
> 150 and can poke along at 25-30.  Rebooting the Airport brings it back
> up to snuff; it's rare that I have to touch the cable modem.
> 
> When I run an application that causes heavy network traffic, I can blow
> out my network entirely and stop all Internet connections until I
> reboot the Airport.  BitTorrent does this intermittently;

And that might be he problem. I have read that file sharing apps tend to do
that. Rebooting thee ABS is often the best way, although you could try the
activity monitor to kill p2p apps such as mlnet

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Not a filesharer ....................