Airport base station unit?

I've checked my processes with activity monitor and can not figure out why this process is active, (Airport base station unit). I do not have airport enabled in any way and I do not have an airport base unit. Activity monitor tells me this is process #308 and is using 5.22 mb of real memory. When I force to quit, it reappears in a few seconds, I never noticed this activity before. Any help would be appreciated!

Armand Morin1 wrote:
I've checked my processes with activity monitor and can not figure out why this process is active, (Airport base station unit). I do not have airport enabled in any way and I do not have an airport base unit. Activity monitor tells me this is process #308 and is using 5.22 mb of real memory. When I force to quit, it reappears in a few seconds, I never noticed this activity before. Any help would be appreciated!
Mine takes about 3MB but 0% CPU.
I looked in my startup items and Airport Base Station Agent is there.
I presume that if your remove it, it will no longer show up in the Activity Monitor.
It's probably installed as a startup item by default, either by the system or the recent update.
If it's not in your login items list, then you have some other problem.

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If all else fails, you might need to perform a soft or hard reset to factory defaults, then you have to set everything up again, but it might restore it to working condition.
Not sure if this is the model base station that you have:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107451
check the user guide that came with it, in case the procedure may be different.
I hope that helps.
When I bought an "open-box" unit, the device was already set up by someone else with a password, and the hard reset allowed me to start from scratch so I could configure it.

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Hi, I've been trying to get an Airport Base Station set up for a few weeks. There is currently a problem getting wireless connectivity. The computer recognizes the base station, but does not see the server. I'm not sure how to get a wireless connection from the current location of this base station. The base station is inside of a classroom with reinforced steel walls and a steel door. I believe that this is causing a major issue with getting wireless connection. Is there anything that I can do to try and get connection? I tried hooking up an antenna, but that did not work. The only thing that I can think of is to get a few base stations and just hook them up going up the stairs to this classroom. I'm really pressing for the school to get an Ethernet connection so that we would not have to worry about wireless for this part of the building. This is the only part of the building that is really bad for reception. If there is anything else that I can try to get connection please let me know.

If you could run a length of proper antenna cable to a QuickerTek unit,
a "powered external antenna" could at least get the signal past the steel
and concrete signal barriers. Ethernet into the classrooms and then go
wireless is even better; and depending on class size and expected other
features (such as wireless printing, etc) the options vary in what wi-fi
base you use.
The AEBS seems a bit more durable and has a few more features than
an Express base station; plus the larger unit supports more connections.
But, without a source for a signal, you may be facing headaches.
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or internet connection? There may be alot of interference in the wiring
in a school or commercial building; but there may be a chance you can
get some kind of device for the ethernet data to flow over AC power wire.
A few, in an older article about data over phone lines, include
adapters from a few companies in this link:
http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-482.html
The "Farallon HomeLINE network" was promising in some
cases; if there is something that can send DSL over house
hold or AC wires, then decode it, you may get internet into
a building that has no ethernet and can't get wireless.
Someone probably knows of a newer technology or a way
to work around your isolation issues in a steel/concrete bldg.
PS: Isn't there any technology grants with the phone or ISP
companies in your area from such places as the Gates Found
ation or other networking grants for schools that could have
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No magic, but I had a real weird situation that I have no way to explain. So when I wanted to upgrade using the airport utility which logically should pull 7.7.1 first and then later 7.7.3, neither would work. I restored to factory defaults in the mena time of this original posting, however pull down menu was not showing 7.7.1 rather it was still displaying 7.6.4, hence why I was so eager to get 7.7.3 binary and do manual upgrade. AS I found the code, before I went about manual process I went into my ~/Library/Applications Support/Apple/AirPort directory to check the version.xml file and voila it showed how I do have 7.7.1 running and installed way back , so then I proceeded the manual process I described above and it worked. You are correct definitely because 7.7.1 was already there, but to for me unknown reason it is not showing on the Airport Extreme and in the drop meny I explained/described, however definitely there and clearly reason I was able to do manual upgrade. In the light of my question and wasted exchanges with the previous poster I didn't describe this part because it was irrelevant as I was only asking how I can get the code. If I had time to deal with the bigger issue here I would ask Apple, ok why my utility was not pulling 7.7.1 or 7.7.3 and why I had to do all of this to finish simple process that should in reality happen in matter of minutes (I do not have check auto weekly for the code not do I like or trust that feature i.e. don't like auto upgrades...I like to see upgrades done, ppl use it, not report issues and then I do my upgrades). Hope this clarifies it further.
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Perform a "hard" reset of the AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS)
o (ref: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107451)
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o AirPort Network Name: <whatever you wish or use the default>
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I have a SmartStor DS4600 (by Promise Technologies). It's set for RAID 0, just recently formatted with "Journaled HFS+".
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