On Mar 27, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
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.
I had this happen to me, and I used a kludge repair. I had an old
wired router I wasn't using, so I attached my cable modem to the WAN
port of the wired router, and then attached the wired router to the
bad ABS from LAN port to LAN port. I turned off DHCP in the Airport
Base Station so that the ABS was acting as a passive pass-thru device.
This allowed the wired router to set the DHCP addresses, but I still
was able to use the wireless connections perfectly without buying new
capacitors or soldering. I eventually retired the unit by removing the
Airport Extreme card and selling it along with the power supply, and
never did fix it properly, even though I got over 2 years usage from it.
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