Time Capsule Maintenance?

Hello All,
I have been experiencing trouble with my time capsule lately--where the wireless signal will drop out and come back in every minute or so, over a period of time that varies from 5 minutes to over an hour (at which point I unplug the TC for 5 minutes, which seems to "resolve" the problem). My question is: what maintenance can/should I be doing (i.e. any utilities to do the equivalent of OS X maintenance scripts or disk utilities)? I can't find anything in AirPort Utility, and a web search brings up a lot of hits on how to use TC for Mac maintenance, but nothing on TC or AirPort maintenance. And, yes, I do have the latest firmware.
Thanks,
Lou

Welcome to the discussions!
Are you already using a utility like Air Radar to help identify some of the competition for wireless airspace?
If not, download the trial program and use the Scan function at the lower right of the main window to display the "visible" networks around you. It's possible that you are experiencing wireless interference issues from another network.
Look at the channels that are in use by the wireless networks and try to set your channel to a setting that is as far away as possible from other networks. Air Radar won't show you all of the competition because most modern routers (yours included) give their owners the option to "hide" the network. So, it's also possible that your network is being disturbed by another network that you cannot "see".
If you suspect this might be the case, all you can do is trying different channels to see if you can find some clear airspace.
Might be worth turning off the cordless phones for an hour as well to see if things improve. Cordless phones are by far the biggest problem for most wireless networks.

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