On Mar 27, 2010, at 9:50 AM, John Callahan wrote:
John, I guess I failed to make clear in my post the modem when connected directly to the computer works fine, in fact it works much faster, no doubt because of the speed limitations of my old base station. I also have Time-Warner and when I experienced the ABS failure I called them and they reset the cable modem. I've not heard anything of the reliability of Airport base stations but in my case age may have something to do with the failure. MacTracker says Apple quit making my model in 2004. Thanks for your response.
Pop the top, there are some big capacitors on the ABS board, betcha they're swollen.
Google 'Airport Base Station Capacitor Replacement' for the fix, which is to replace the electrolytic ones with tantalum caps. The tantalum caps are a lot more expensive, but you're only using two or three of 'em.
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