[P1] Airport Base Station trouble

[Tom R. no spam]

Do you have the b/s serving DHCP or similar?  If so, what's
the lease time duration?  Some non-respose issues are due
to differing IP address subnets.  Replugin may reset the
lease?  Just some guesses based on some partly similar
experiences.

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Michael Adams wrote:
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> I've just bought an original AirPort base station (graphite) and have it
> sharing my Internet connection (through the modem) with my win98 PC over
> ethernet and iBook over WiFi. Problem is, every so often the base
> station crashes. It's happened three times today already and is starting
> to get annoying!
>
> Usually when it crashes it stops responding to any requests... if I try
> pinging it, nothing happens. If I open up the AirPort Admin Utility it
> doesn't find the base station either. And of course all attempts to load
> web pages fail.
>
> To fix it I just unplug it and then plug it back in after half a minute
> of so. I tried reloading the firmware and if anything it's crashing more
> frequently now! Also, I got the unit from the US, and I live in New
> Zealand, so I had to get a different power adapter. I got one that
> matched the specs on the US adapter... even though they are the same,
> could this still cause a problem?
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