On Dec 1, 2011, at 9:24 PM, John Callahan wrote:
My airport base station seems to have lost the connection at the
(wan) port. The wireless connection with my computer shows up OK and
the ethernet line from the cable modem to the computer ethernet port
works fine. Apparently there is a loss of connection between the
cable modem and the base station. Trieda new ethernet cable but to
no avail. Anyone have any experience with a base station loosing a
Port?
I think this is when the capacitors in the base station pop. These
aren't normal looking cylindrical capacitors, they're rectangular I
think. There are websites with photos of this problem and fix. The
options are:
1)salvage the Airport card out of the base station and trash the dead
base station. You can sell the power supply and/or Airport card to
subsidize a new one.
2)get new capacitors and solder them in to fix the issue.
3)use another wired router to connect to your ISP via its WAN port and
assign DHCP addresses; then have the Airport station connected to the
wired router LAN-to-LAN port as a passive wireless station. This is a
kludge way of utilizing the wireless of the broken Airport station by
using an old wired router. Probably not the best solution unless you
need wireless NOW and have an old wired router sitting around.
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