There's a clock chip in tthe machine that handles the timing for the
cpu and memory. This chip is twice the speed of the cpu, in this a
2.2 GHZ, so it's possible that's what's causing your problem, but I
agree, a 550MHZ probably wouldn't bother it.
Perhaps the linksys was better shielded. I've had some components
work where others didn't depending on the environment. Perhaps the
extreme isn't well adjusted, and a 2.2 ghz freq throws it off, even
though it shouldn't.
On Apr 14, 2006, at 5:08 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
What is interesting is the pc is a 1.1Ghz AMD and the AirPort is
2.4Ghz so I imagine its possible some harmonics, but a test would
be to stuff a PIII 550Mhz near it and see what happens.Nothing new
perhaps, but I had a Linksys previously that never behaved this way
and it was sitting about where the Extreme is now.
Go figure.
Scott
On Apr 14, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
There's a reasn pcs have metal cases, or at least metal lined
cases anyhow. It's to block all the rf thrown off by various
components inside the machine. This is nothing new. Just try
putting a radio next to a machine, and watch what happens when you
turn on the computer. I've had machines where I couldn't have a
radio in the same room with them the interference was so bad. As
processors get faster, the rf they throw off will interfere with
higher and higher frequency things. Probably when the machines
get a bit faster, and you get one, your airport problem will go
away, since it will then be interfering on a freq that doesn't
bother the extreme.
On Apr 14, 2006, at 11:05 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
Folks, after a bit of testing and frustration, I finally realized
what was causing my Extreme to bail on me. It seems that my pc
was the cause. I don't know exactly why or how, but I have some
ideas. I had the case open and I guess some component in the
machine upon boot was generating so much damned rf interference,
it would kill the Extreme. I finally closed teh case and booted
teh box and no problems. This is surely one really strange
problem. The pc is on the floor and the Extreme is above it, but
separated by two 3/4 inch boards, my desktop and shelf above
that, and the distance is about 5 feet. I've never run into
something so insane as this.
Scott
