On 2016-03-31 9:08 , Stanley Halpin wrote:
Yesterday I received from B&H a new Airport Extreme basestation (6th Gen) to
replace my old Airport Extreme basestation (2nd Gen). Life is good. I am once again
living in the fast lane…
I am still a bit baffled as my naive expectation is that electronic gear will
either go bad within weeks of purchase or it will last forever. But apart from
a major speed boost coming with the move from 2nd to 6th Generation, the
changeover seems to have also taken care of the reliability issue. So I guess
even electronics wear out.
i'm not so sure about your conclusion, since i can think of some other
possibilities; that's not to say that upgrading is a bad idea, just that the
rationale that the "old one wore out" should be tentative
the most common reliability problem i have experienced with hardware has to
do with power supplies; when they don't simply fail, they sometimes put out
too little, or varying power, or one of two voltages fail; the symptoms may
be intermittent, or the device may seem to power on, but not actually work
wifi routers are known to have firmware bugs, sometimes triggered by new
characteristics in network traffic; for example there is a lot more
"flooding" type traffic on the Internet in recent years, and it's known to
crash some routers; i had a DSL router with exactly that problem a few years
ago; a firmware update can be the cure, but newer routers often have the
benefit of firmware that's been better hardened
it may also be that your radio environment has changed, and that simply
finding, and switching to, the least-used channel would help; newer,
multi-antenna routers seem to have less trouble with interference
finally there are configuration issues; a few years ago i stayed in my
brother's Brooklyn apartment and he noted that his wifi router had to be
restarted often; i did some research and found that a certain mode that was
supposed to speed things up actually interacted poorly with his ISP; turning
that mode off put the router on a steady footing
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