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Graphite Airport trouble
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Los Angeles, CA USA
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I use my Powerbook Pismo and Airport graphite to connect to the internet. Up until a couple of days ago, everything was fine. Now, I have no reception and my Airport is flashing red lights. Any idea on how to troubleshoot this? I bought my Mac for plug and play so I'm not exactly sure what to do now that everything's gone loco. Any ideas are appreciated..
Keith
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Halfway between here and there.
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sorry to tell ya, but I would say goodbye to your basestation. Mine just started doing the same thing: all lights flashing red, go solid red and so on. I contacted apple and they said it sounded like a hardware failure. I reloaded the firmware, updated the firmware and nothing. So I went and bought a new basestation, not an apple but a netgear, but I am having problems setting it up, but that's another thread
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Los Angeles, CA USA
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Well, that just sounds insane, doesn't it? It's not like it was dropped or really even touched... I hope this isn't the only reply because I'd hate to get another basestation.. Maybe I'll drag it over to the Apple store and see if there's anything they can do..
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chandler, AZ
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Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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I'd bet that the problem is indeed the capacitors-flashing lights and no link with a graphite base sounds very suspicious. If m_brand0 is lucky, his base is one that Apple will replace...
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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Actually, if you let leave it alone or reset (as in on-off) it a couple more times it will work, at least for me. The problem sucks though.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Los Angeles, CA USA
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I've unplugged it and waited. I've reset it with a paperclip and nothing's changed. I should haul it down to an Apple store and see if they can help me out. I really didn't want to get Airport Extreme until I buy a machine that can really make use of it.. Regardless, I think I'm screwed and I'll probably have to bite the bullet...
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Denville, NJ.
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Before you bite the bullit and buy another AirPort Base Station for $200 or more, check out the Linksys wireless router for $80 at CompUSA. See it Here. I'm usually not a fan of CompUSA for anything beyond printer paper or ink, but the damn stores are everywhere. I also usually do recommend Apple products but the price difference for a wireless router is just too huge.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: AUSTRALIA
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I hear you saying that you bought the item for plug and play; there is one failsafe method to test if the basestation is suffering from a hardware error or not (hardware error out of warranty basically means you need to replace it unless you are technical enough to do it yourself. Otherwise you are looking at $100 US+ and its just not worth it when you can by a new one for $199 or even less).
Check out this url.
Follow the procedure carefully (its fairly simple), and if it doesnt work you have a hardware problem.
Post your findings or any questions here and I will try and help you.
Cheers
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Indigo iBook, 366mhz; 320MB RAM; CD; FW; Airport
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