Airport Express fails after 14 days

My Airport Express will quit transmitting packets (both to the internet or my internal network) after 14 days and between 5 and 12 hours. Is anyone else experiencing this? It's been a problem since I've had it as I recall. It's not a big problem for me but, in a business environment this wouldn't fly. Has a solution been found? I don't mean power cycling the Airprot Express but, a REAL solution so it no longer happens.
-Chris Wathan

Hi Chris,
Sorry to hear about your Airport Express quitting. My experience echoes
b Alan's.
My Airport Express has been up continuously since I bought it this Spring. I'd say report the problems as a potential bad sample.
best of luck,
...ben
PS. I will add to be fair, that my Airport Express replaced my
b original
Airport basestation, the Graphite that I used since it came out (2000?) until this past Spring. Now that one failed completely once with a capacitor problem experienced by others as well, and was replaced under AppleCare with an identical unit. But both my original Graphite basestation and its warranty replacement would, approximately weekly, hang, and would not function again until their AC power was recycled, at which point they would run just fine. Fortunately my Airport Express doesn't share that trait, and just stays up.

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