Why does airport base station show up in activity monitor if I do not have nor us it?

Been having internet problems and been watching my activity monitor a lot. AirportBaseStationAgent shows up often as does loginwindowagent and a few other odd ones. This happens even when airport is off and I am doing nothing but watching the monitor.
On a seperate but like issue - My internet is continually spotty and I stay online by running the dignostic thing in network. I hit it and it shows the last two or three lights orange for just a sec and then green...do again immediately same thing until I get green consistantly - then internet works fine for a bit and then have to do it all again. The first day I change router info or the first day i erased everything on my computer it did not do this and internet was great, but now back to having to run it constantly or weirdly, if I constantly run pages at say wiki I get less interruption. What is this? I feel like someone is on my computer and all I hear is how unlikely that is and why? I dont' know why, I just know it really seems that way.
Any help on either question??? Please?

thanks, figured it out..must have been a case of the fat fingers.

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I have an Airport Express Base Station that has been working beautifully up until this morning. For no apparent reason (changes in ANYTHING), I cannot connect to the internet through it. Here's the situation:
The light on the airport is solid green.
Aiport Utility shows all is well...the base station shows up, with green light, IP address, etc.
Network Diagnostics shows "your connection to the internet seems to be working correctly."
Connecting the modem directly to the computer via ethernet cable works fine...internet humming right along.
Connecting the modem to the base station doesn't work, even though all green lights and "all systems go" diagnostics.
Wireless access via iPhone and iPad not working, either, so definitely not computer-based issue.
No changes have been made to anything. I'm running 10.6.8 on a 2007 MacBook Pro.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Nancy

Hi Bob,
Thanks for responding.
Does that IP address start with 169, or something else?
The IP address starts with 10.0...
Does this mean that the iPhone and iPad can connect to the wireless network....but not get to the Internet?.....or.....does this mean that the iPhone and iPad cannot connect to the wireless network at all?
They can see and connect to the wireless network, but aren't connecting to the internet, just like my computer. Sorry for not being clear about that.
Can you look on the side of the AirPort Express to locate the model number? Hard to see, you may need a magnifying glass. Starts with an "A" followed by four numbers, as in A1264, or A1084, for example.
The model number on the Airport is A1392.
Any insights based on this info? Thanks for your help.
Nancy

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I don't use the Airport, in fact I have it disabled. Activity monitor shows the Airport Base Station running. Why? Is this standard? If so, why take up system resources like this?
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The best way to do it, and the way that the preference should be doing is:launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.AirPortBaseStationAgent.plist If you don't know about launchd, the above command tells it to unload the plist from the launchd queue and write the disabled bit (-w) so that it doesn't load at start anymore. To turn it back on, you run the same command except change 'unload' to 'load'
Edit: For what it's worth, I submitted a bug report.
Message was edited by: Barney-15E

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Thanks, Ann. As I mentioned in my post, Tushar correctly pointed out that, without a GPU accelerated card (which I don't have - mine is a piece of junk which I will be replacing with a compatible one soon) you must use the software only settings. I had changed my project over to the 'software only' setting, and I still had the problem. The value Tushar added was the procedure for clearing the cache.
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Hi, Some one hacked into my AirPort Base Station, which initially I had not secured with password. Now they took control by adding their own password. How can I regain ownership back?

Hi there,
I have an intruder into my AirPort Base Station wireless connection. The Station initially I did did not protect it with a Password, so the intruder branded it a name and put on a password. Is there any way I can deactivate the intruder's password and regain ownership?
Thanks for your answers in advance.

Some one hacked into my AirPort Base Station.....
No, they did not have to "hack" into your AirPort at all. Since the door to your wireless network was wide open, they simply walked right in.
Is there any way I can deactivate the intruder's password and regain ownership?
Hold the reset button on the back of the AirPort in for 9-10 seconds, and then release. Allow a full minute tor the AirPort to restart to a slow, blinking amber light.
The AirPort is back to new, out of the box settings. You can can now reconfigure it again......hopefully this time with a password.

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selected to "create a closed network"
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settings
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to "Distribute IP addresses" and "Share a single IP
address using DHCP and NAT".
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anything.
2. do a hard reset of your second base station per:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107451
3. for now, put both base stations and the Mac in the
same room. Run the Airport Setup Assistant, and use
its guidance to configure the second base station as
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I bought an airport express last week and am happily listening to itunes on my home stereo. I noticed that the airport express installation loaded the "airport base station agent" that runs in the system tray. This seems to imply that it is possible to connect a USB drive to the AEX, to the contrary of the imformation provided by Apple. My question is, what is the base station agent for? And if it does not provide any functionality for an airport express alone, why did it install along with the airport utility?
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