> On Apr 27, 2015, at 11:34 AM, Scot Hacker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have two identical Airport Expresses, about a year old. One is connected to
> a Motorola cable modem, the other is across the house and extends the network
> wirelessly - straightforward stuff.
>
> This setup worked for most of the year. Then, recently, the remote AEX
> started blinking amber. I've factory reset both of them and tried to get
> things running again, but the remote AEX just won't hold a connection to the
> main AEX. Airport Utility just says "There was a problem extending the
> network" with no other information.
>
> The two AEXs are about 50 feet apart from each other, with a couple of "sort
> of" walls in between (there's no line-of-site, but the path is open, not
> completely blocked). On a whim, I decided to set it up with the AEXs in the
> same room. It works! But as soon as I move one of them 20 feet away, around a
> corner, it falls down.
>
> This makes no sense to me. It worked for a year, the distance is not great,
> and nothing in the home layout has changed.
I have theories… not sure that they are any more helpful than that.
1) The hardware on one of the basestations has started to go hurting the
antenna performance.
2) Your neighbor has put in something that is messing with that spectrum making
communication much for difficult.
3) Vast liberal/right-wing (chose your poison) conspiracy to prevent you from
using the internet in that part of the house.
In any of these cases I would at least try changing the channel on the
main base station to see if you get better performance on another WiFi channel.
Or in the last case I prescribe lots and lots of tinfoil applied as you see fit.
—
Karl Kuehn
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