Much obliged Kris, I think I'll just get a new one.
On Dec 1, 2011, at 11:49 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
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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