John and Steve, I totally hear and understand your comments about maybe I haven’t solved my problem yet. I knew when I even thought about claiming a solution that I was clearly tempting fate.
So, we’ll wait a few days. I am not yet convinced either that my diagnosis was accurate, I have two other possibilities I am mulling over and your comments Steve reminded me of a couple of others. But for the time being all is good and I have a significantly faster wifi available now than before. So even if it is not my solution, the new basestation is very welcome. stan - = - = - = - = - = - = > On Mar 31, 2016, at 2:17 PM, John <sesso...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > On 3/31/2016 10:09 AM, Stanley Halpin wrote: >> I have been having reliability issues with my internet connection... >> > > I don't think 24 hours is long enough to determine if the problem is solved. > > I went through several modems and several routers before I finally got > my cable internet "fixed”... > - = - = - = - = - = - = > On Mar 31, 2016, at 2:33 PM, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: > > 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 > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
