Graphite Airport keeps resetting

Hi All, recently my 6 year old graphite base station (V3.84) has been starting to act up. It has been restarting itself on a random basis and it now restarts/resets during large downloads such as podcasts or when downloading a video from pbs.org. But it also restarts just randomly even if network activity is low.
When I look at it using the AirPort Admin Utility, it indicates that it recently restarted.
Is this just aging hardware needing replacement or can this behavior be fixed by some other means?
PowerBook G4 1.5GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Sounds like it may be suffering from old age.
The capacitors in power supply circuits ware out over time causing the power to be unstable. This often shows itself when the equipment is working hard. I would suggest either get the base station serviced or get an extreme/express to replace it.

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