[X4U] Can an Airport Base station wear out?

[Joe Block]

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On Oct 30, 2004, at 3:19 PM, Jeff Porten wrote:

> Well, it's starting to appear that the problem is that some of the 
> network activities I'm running at home trigger a deterioration in the 
> Internet connection -- packet loss starts going through the roof.  
> Still not sure why, but I'm less convinced than I was that the problem 
> is in the Airport -- I got similar results cutting the Airport out of 
> the chain and using another Mac as a software base station.
>
> So the new open question is why some activities cause incremental 
> packet loss up to 100%.  The two I've found so far are BitTorrent 
> downloads (intermittently causes a problem), and originating a large 
> port scan against another network (shuts down the network within 
> minutes).  I'm stumped, and so are my ISP techs.  Any ideas?

For what it's worth, I have the same problem with the little Linksys 
router at my house - if I run BitTorrent, the router inevitably goes 
comatose - it may take 10 minutes, it may take 2 hours, but eventually 
it stops sending packets.

It doesn't matter whether I use my old B&W G3 via wire, or my old 
TiBook chained through an original Airport base station.

jpb
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