Airport Extreme (802.11g) Issue

I have two Airport Extreme (802.11g) that have been working flawlessly for many years. Recently one of them started flashing all three light rabidly and I can't connect to it wirelessly with the Airport Admin Utility.
When I power cycle it, the middle light blinks once, then the outer two lights blink once, then all three lights come on momentarily and then start blinking super fast. I think that a power surge or old age have killed it as I can't hard reset it and the link light on the switch it is connected to does not illuminate either.
So, I think it's dead but I thought someone may have some information.
Thanks.

Sorry to say, but based on your description, your 802.11g AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS) has (or will soon) failed.

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I am afraid that the interference that you are picking up is coming from outside sources. Unfortunately, you will not be able to do much about this other than try different locations for the AirPort Extreme.
I'm assuming that your AirPort Extreme is not located close to a televison or other electronic device. If it is, try to move it as far away as possible. Also try to keep it as far away from any outside walls or windows in the apartment as possible.
I was helping a friend recently who moved into a a new high rise apartment/condo development and we found that he simply could not use 2.4 GHz wireless reliably in his area due to the number of other networks and interference issues. That is likely the case in many other situations due to the explosion of wireless networks in the last few years.
For your reference, the most accurate way to judge signal quality is Signal to Noise or SNR.
Hold down the option key on your Mac and click on the Apple icon in upper left corner of the screen
Select System Profier.
Look down the list for the Network heading and then click on AirPort to highlight it
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o 40dB+ SNR = Excellent signal
o 25dB to 40dB SNR = Very good signal
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I think it's related to overall traffic, because I was running a program called "namebench" which tries to determine the best DNS servers in your area. It does this test by sending 2000+ requests to name servers as quickly as possible and tallying the response results. When I let the program run only once, it usually works. But when I set it to run the test 3 consecutive times, after slamming the base station for over 5 minutes it would lock up consistently every time.
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Thank you!
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Airport extreme 802.11g

Hi,
I have a couple of issues with my airport extreme.
(1) Periodically it will not connect to my router. When I check in system preferences>network it tells me I have a "self assigned IP address" and may not be able to connect to the internet. When I check in airport utilities I clearly see me IP address. If I follow "assist me" then "Diagnostics" in network preferences that generally gets me back online (e.g restart my router). I called my ISP in case there was a problem at their end and they said no - connecting via ethernet is never a problem.
(2) Other computers cannot connect to my network - it use to never be a problem for friends who were visiting to get online using my network password. We even took away all security to see if that made a difference but it didn't make a difference.
The airport is now 4 years old - could that be it?
Thanks,
Michael.

michael doyle5 wrote:
I have a couple of issues with my airport extreme.
Apple has used the term "AirPort Extreme" in two different ways, to mean (1) a Wi-Fi base station capable of 802.11g protocols or better and (2) hardware within a Mac that's capable of 802.11g protocols. Please try to make it clear in your posts just what you mean, so that, for example, a reference to "it" isn't ambiguous.
To clarify: What networking gear (brand and model number) do you have? How is the equipment connected? Which one are you describing as "my router"?
(1) Periodically it will not connect to my router. When I check in system preferences>network it tells me I have a "self assigned IP address" and may not be able to connect to the internet. When I check in airport utilities I clearly see me IP address.
Depending on where you look, the IP address you see in the Network panel of System Preferences isn't the same as the IP address you see in AirPort Utility. Just where do you see those values?
The airport is now 4 years old - could that be it?
If it works at all, age probably isn't an issue.
This won't address the issue of others not being able to connect, but you might try resetting your connection settings using the steps listed in this message:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10695921&start=1
They're not guaranteed to solve the problem, but they'll only take you a minute or so to try.

Airport Extreme 802.11g base station loses internet connection often

I just installed an Airport Extreme base station (802.11g version Apple Base Station V5.7) last week. And it keeps dropping my internet connection at least once a day.
I simply replaced an old SMC Barricade wireless router that died (and was a POS). But I only had to reset the SMC about once every 2 months. Nothing else has changed in my setup. Only the router/base station is different.
The wireless part is fine. Even when the internet connection gets dropped the hard wired AND wireless clients can still access the local network. Reseting the DSL modem has no effect. The only solution is to power cycle (unplug and plug back in) the AEBS OR restart it from Airport Admin utility.
But you can't do that from offsite. When the AEBS drops the internet connection I can't access my office network from home!
Is there a place in Airport Admin Utility which tells you the status of your internet connection like most generic wireless routers with web-based software do?
Any ideas on resolving this?
Thanks

"Any ideas on resolving this?"
Looter,
Based on your description, open AirPort Admin Utility and check the configuration of your main base station on the "Internet" pane. If you're using ethernet cable from the modem to the base station, the top selector [Connect Using:] should show "Ethernet" and the second selector [Configure:] should show "Using DHCP"
Also, check your iMac's System Preferences>Network at "Show: AirPort" and check the PPPoE pane which should show no entries (unless your isp requires its use), and the TCP/IP pane which should show "Configure IPv4:" as being "Using DHCP" - while all other info is filled in automatically.
"Is there a place in Airport Admin Utility which tells you the status of your internet connection like most generic wireless routers with web-based software do?"
No, the AirPort Admin Utility is not web-based, only located on your computer with the information available to it necessary to operate the AirPort system. It does not actually administer the signal. I think that is done only by System Preferences>Network.
"I'm actually referring to the Airport Express base station not my MacBook Pro's wireless connection. Is there anywhere in the Airport Admin Utility software that tells you the status of the AEBS' internet connection NOT the wireless connection."
No, that info is not available in that utility. The information you seek is at System Preferences>Network, but only after the system scans for it. Click the "Assist me..." button and then, on the "Do you need assistance setting up a new network connection or solving a network problem?" panel that opens, click the "Diagnostics..." button. A "Network Diagnostics" panel will then open and if its scan shows there is no internet the lights to the left of "Internet" and "Server" will be yellow instead of green. Meanwhile, it continues scanning for the connection until it is re-established. I determined this by pulling my cable from the phone jack, later reinserting it.
Further information that may be helpful to you can undoubtedly be found in threads such as this other one:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=884049&tstart=0
edit-
In re-reading, I may not have given you what you need. It sounds as if you may be "timing out" somehow on your connection. You might want to check around at some of your log-on settings to see if there is that possibility connected to one of them, even though the only thing I can think of is the "Renew DHCP Lease" button which is unknown to me, as I've never used it.
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Do I have to ditch my older model Express (g) and Extreme (g) or try and get a second user old model Express (g)?
has anyone got a mix of old and new Express to co-exist?

good response. What to try? I'll admit it is a pain but this would be the basics:
1) reset it as many times as necessary to get it to be recognized
2) reset it with the power unplugged also
3) always use the airport icon found at the top of the desktop file menu(this is the key to find it there first
4) use the preferred pane found in the network pane within system preferences, delete networks that are odd or old and if you can get that express showing there you are almost home. Use the above three to do it also
This is why I got off those routers and now use two TC or two Extreme N or a combination of each. Ethernet as much as possible. Good luck
also
5) use ethernet to configure it then remove it, but once you set its wireless setting make sure you see it in the airport icon.
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Is this possible? How? Thanks!
--Daniel

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Airport Extreme 802.11g disconnects from the internet randomly. Help =(

O.K.
i have had this airport extreme (old one shaped like a dome) for about 5 years now... its been working fine until about a couple of months ago it has started to randomly disconnect me and my family from the internet. I know its not my modem or my ISP because if i connect my computer to my modem directly i get internet. Im not sure really what to do. Every time it does this, i have to restart my router and it works again. It does this at least once every day. Any idea how to fix this?
By the way: i bought a time capsule a week ago, thinking that it was time for a new router, but instead it was twice as slow and i couldn't even load a page. I've tried restarting it over and over gain and it has yet to have solved the problem. I guess I'm just getting unlucky :/

Define "router" - do you mean it works if you restart your AirPort Extreme or the modem?
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