That's because back in the Good old days, of say 20 years ago,
electronics was like that. Defects would cause failures within weeks,
sometimes seconds of powering up complex electronics, but the actual
products were so over designed and over built for the actual work load
expected, that devices surviving "infant mortality" seemed to last
forever. Engineers learned over time what could be, I don't really want
to say, compromised, but it fits, and still achieve a reasonable useful
working life for an electronic device, which is why these devices fail
more often.
On 3/31/2016 10:09 AM, Stanley Halpin wrote:
I have been having reliability issues with my internet connection. Basic setup is a
Charternet-supplied Motorola modem connected to our cable from the outside. Within the
house I use wifi rather than cable, using an Apple “Airport Extreme” as a basestation,
supplemented with two small Airport Express as signal boosters (and one of them is
connected to a printer and also to my stereo amp Aux input jack, giving me a means to
“Airplay” my iTunes collection without needing to listen to my computer’s speakers). So,
modem -> basestation -> boosters -> computer in the back room.
For at least a year now I have been having issues with a dropped connection to
the internet. For most of that time I have been blaming it on either the cable
system or on the cable modem. Powering off and restarting the modem (and
basestation) seemed to work most of the time. But then lately it was getting
much worse, to the point that I was losing the connection within a few hours of
a reset. I knew it wasn’t an issue with one or both of the boosters because the
lack of connectivity showed up even when using a tablet or laptop in the living
room within a few feet of the basestation. Sunday I suddenly realized that the
basestation itself was possibly at fault!
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.
stan
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