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AirPort Extreme: "Disconnect if idle" not working
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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Hi all. I have a dial-up connection to the Internet, and in the Internet pane of the AirPort Admin Utility I have "Disconnect if idle" set to "10 minutes." That's so I don't accidentally incur extra charges from my ISP.
It used to work fine. Recently, though, I noticed that it's no longer auto-disconnecting. If I leave it connected, when I come back an hour later it'll still be connected, even if all applications are closed.
I have no problems with my connections otherwise.
Is something screwy with the AirPort software, or is there some background Internet traffic that's keeping it connected?
I have an AEBS with 5.1.3 firmware, used with two computers with AirPort 3.1.1 software: a 12" PowerBook with an AirPort Extreme card, and my iMac DV 400 with an AirPort card. Both computers are on OS X 10.2.8. I first noticed the problem under 5.1.1/3.1.1; the 5.1.3 upgrade has seemed to have no effect.
Thanks.
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Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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It sounds like you're running a program in the background that's generating some online activity every so often-less than your 10 minute cut off time. Review what is running, and whether or not anything is supposed to be touching base with the Internet.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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Thanks for the reply. As I said, this happens even with all applications closed. In fact, I can shut both computers down for an hour, then fire one back up and the connection will still be active. A check of Process Viewer shows nothing amiss that I can tell.
I can disconnect manually with no problem, but I'd like to get the auto-disconnect working again.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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OK ... I went to the Terminal, ran top and here is the result:
Code:
Processes: 36 total, 3 running, 33 sleeping... 82 threads 13:30:02
Load Avg: 0.14, 0.15, 0.15 CPU usage: 17.4% user, 9.6% sys, 73.0% idle
SharedLibs: num = 7, resident = 2.24M code, 136K data, 560K LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 1726, resident = 16.0M + 4.64M private, 40.3M shared
PhysMem: 44.5M wired, 68.3M active, 107M inactive, 220M used, 420M free
VM: 983M + 3.62M 6995(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
423 top 5.2% 0:27.09 1 14 17 188K 332K 484K 13.6M
422 tcsh 0.0% 0:00.05 1 10 15 344K 584K 784K 5.73M
421 login 0.0% 0:01.13 1 12 33 244K 384K 576K 13.7M
420 Terminal 12.2% 0:10.64 3 60 105 1.34M- 7.07M 6.30M- 48.9M-
410 AppleSpell 0.0% 0:00.07 1 17 20 220K 776K 820K 14.7M
372 Finder 0.0% 0:13.83 1 73 124 2.90M 18.1M 13.6M 62.0M
371 SystemUISe 5.2% 0:59.94 2 153 136 1.56M 5.18M 3.74M 46.0M
370 Dock 0.0% 0:02.59 2 78 111 844K 7.65M 5.68M 44.9M
364 pbs 0.0% 0:01.75 2 27 25 572K 792K 1.27M 14.4M
345 DirectoryS 0.0% 0:00.95 3 55 147 748K 3.39M 3.23M 21.4M
323 loginwindo 0.0% 0:02.22 4 154 112 1.89M 8.75M 7.23M 52.3M
320 automount 0.0% 0:00.06 2 22 21 136K 424K 540K 14.7M
311 cron 0.0% 0:00.00 1 8 17 76K 332K 164K 13.8M
309 cupsd 0.0% 0:01.44 1 8 26 1.67M 808K 2.05M 16.6M
304 inetd 0.0% 0:00.01 1 8 13 56K 312K 116K 1.28M
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Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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Nothing in your results rings alarm bells for me. Hmmm. Ok, I'm stumped. Have you done a good reset on the AEBS; it could just need a good "whack across the skull" to get it working again.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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