Airport Extreme Base Station failure?

2010-03-27 Thread John Callahan
ABS not receiving information from cable modem. Direct connection from cable modem to G4 QS is OK so modem is working. Computer is sensing ABS. ABS model # A1034. Any ideas? Thank you John Callahan jcalla...@stny.rr.com If there are no dogs in Heaven, when I die I want to go where they went.

Re: Airport Extreme Base Station failure?

2010-03-27 Thread iJohn
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:58 AM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: This happens to my Time Warner Cable modem about twice a month. I have to reset the modem and go through the reconnection process. Process?? There's a process?? To reset the Motorola SURFboard(c) SB5100 modem that Time

Re: Airport Extreme Base Station failure?

2010-03-27 Thread lundy mac
If you want to go the extra mile, make sure the router WAN ethernet is NOT connected to the modem until the modem thinks it has successfully connected to whatever it is that is upstream of a cable modem. Not sure this actually matters, but it can't hurt and it's how the cable company says

Re: Airport Extreme Base Station failure?

2010-03-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 27, 2010, at 9:50 AM, John Callahan wrote: John, I guess I failed to make clear in my post the modem when connected directly to the computer works fine, in fact it works much faster, no doubt because of the speed limitations of my old base station. I also have Time-Warner and when

Re: Airport Extreme Base Station failure?

2010-03-27 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 27, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Pop the top, there are some big capacitors on the ABS board, betcha they're swollen. Google 'Airport Base Station Capacitor Replacement' for the fix, which is to replace the electrolytic ones with tantalum caps. The tantalum caps are a

Re: Airport Extreme Base Station failure?

2010-03-27 Thread John Callahan
Much obliged to all who responded. Turned out to be a setup problem not hardware. Did determine that I had a bad Belden fastcat patch cable which contributed to identifying the problem. I think, and this is pure conjecture, that I had selected the incorrect channel. This comes from