Dual port/Snow AIrport BS freezes intermittently

I have a Snow airport base station which used to work perfectly. Now it jams up every 24 hours or so, although I haven't made any changes that I am aware of. The Airport is connected to a cable modem through the WAN port, and I have a Powerbook linked by wireless and a G5 linked by ethernet cable to it. When it locks, neither computer can get through to the internet. The Powerbook continues to show a strong wifi signal. Airport Admin cannot find the base station from either computer. Nevertheless, the status lights continue to show no problem (centre on steadily, left and right both flickering). Pulling out the mains plug and restarting gets it going again until the next time it locks.
What is the likely problem - and is there a cure?
Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Welcome to the discussions forum zelman!
I don't believe you'll find an option to turn off the radio on a Snow using Airport Utility. You may be able to reduce its transmitter power though.
If you're not averse to disassembling it you can simply remove its Airport card. I don't know if that will affect its router though. The card may be of value to those with older equipment, since it's not made any more. At worst you can just disconnect its antenna.
Here's a link to its teardown. It seems easy enough, why don't you try it?
http://www.vonwentzel.net/ABS/Snow/index.html

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