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Apr 22, 2009 6:09 AM
by: denwil23
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Detroit MI, U.S.A.
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Nov 15, 2008
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Airport Extreme Base locks up needs reset when certain wireless devices con
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Nov 15, 2008 5:52 AM
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My Airport Extreme has been running fine for over a year now (Firmware 7.3.2). This week my son brought home an Eee PC 1000 with its default OS install. With in a minute my Airport locked up hard and all network connections died including ethernet. Airports green light was still on. I had to power off the Airport base and re-start it and all was fine. But this problem is fully reproducible when ever I connect the Eee PC to the wireless network. After searching the net I have found that this is a known problem and may be related to other peoples trouble with similar lock ups on this device. This seems to be something Apple must respond to soon. An outside device connecting should not be able to lock up an entire wireless network. I am thinking taking the Eee PC to my local Apple Store to see if it can be reproduced there also.
Dual G5
Mac OS X (10.5.5)
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Re: Airport Extreme Base locks up needs reset when certain wireless devices con
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Nov 15, 2008 4:41 PM
in response to: Zoraster
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Just got a MSI Wind netbook. Never had any problems with my AirPort Extreme until I started wireless to the Wind. Will work for a few minutes then loose connection to the wind and ethernet connection to my Mac. Green light stays on. I can even Traceroute out and go 20 hops before they go blank. Always 20 hops. I've hard reset. I've shut it off and restarted many times. I've given up on the AirPort and disconnected. Wired directly into my cable modem now.
Mac OS X (10.5.5)
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USA
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Nov 18, 2008
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Re: Airport Extreme Base locks up needs reset when certain wireless devices con
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Nov 17, 2008 11:45 PM
in response to: Zoraster
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I've had the same issue with my MSI Wind. It renders the wireless functionality in the Airport Extreme Base mostly useless. ICMP seemingly works, but I'm unable to do much else and it required a hard reset + power removal in order to make it work again.
MSI Wind
Windows XP
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Cupertino
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Oct 29, 2007
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Re: Airport Extreme Base locks up needs reset when certain wireless devices con
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Nov 18, 2008 5:06 PM
in response to: jrhzep
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I had the same problem with an MSI Wind locking up my Airport Extreme N base Station. I believe it was related to the WPA2 personal encryption as removing all WiFi security allowed the combo to work well.
This points to a bug in the AEBS, but I prefer having a protected network. As I use the AEBS for printer sharing & time machine backups, I didn't want to swap the router.
I ended up voiding my Wind's warranty and swapped the Wind's Realtek mini-pci wifi with a Dell Trumobile 1500 card. Using this Broadcom based wifi card, the Wind works great both in XP and OS X 10.5.5 with my AEBS.
iMac 24
Mac OS X (10.5.5)
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UK
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Oct 4, 2006
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Re: Airport Extreme Base locks up needs reset when certain wireless devices con
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Nov 21, 2008 1:39 PM
in response to: Zoraster
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Hi, I bought an eeePC 901 the same time I bought my extreme, so I thought the extreme was faulty, and so did apple. I'm on my second extreme now and it was locking up again. I'm going to run it for 48 hours without the eeePC on, and see if any of the faults re-occur.
Not good if I can't run my 901 on the extreme...
iMac
Mac OS X (10.5.4)
32GB iPod Touch (2.0.1)
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Re: Airport Extreme Base locks up needs reset when certain wireless devices con
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Nov 21, 2008 8:11 PM
in response to: Mooseman999
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My AEBS has worked flawlessly with my other laptops (Acer Ferrari with a Broadcom WiFi adapter as well as a MacBook Pro) for the past few days with the MSI Wind off. Seems pretty clear it's an issue with the base station. Hopefully Apple can come up with a firmware update soon for this issue.
MSI Wind
Windows XP
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UK
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Aug 25, 2007
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Re: Airport Extreme Base locks up needs reset when certain wireless devices
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Nov 22, 2008 3:21 AM
in response to: jrhzep
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I recently bought a samsung NC10 netbook, and am having problems accessing the network (using time capsule as wireless access point). Using WPA2
I'm connecting to my ADSL modem which is acting as router. It has wireless b/g but its turned off as I'm using the time capsule.
Is it worth trying the wireless on the modem for the netbook, bypassing the time capsule? Then I could use N only mode on the TC for my MBP/appleTV?
15" alu MBP
Mac OS X (10.5.5)
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Re: Airport Extreme Base locks up needs reset when certain wireless devices
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Nov 24, 2008 3:25 AM
in response to: mrklaw
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May be worth a try, please let us know if its a success. I tried to run my eeePC on my Netgear wireless (sharing it with all my others) and that managed to take the AEBS down too. I may try what you are doing, I'll run a wireless N network for one set of equipment, and a different B/G network for the rest.
MM
iMac
Mac OS X (10.5.5)
32GB iPod Touch (2.2); Airport Extreme 1GB n
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Aug 25, 2007
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Re: Airport Extreme Base locks up needs reset when certain wireless devices
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Nov 25, 2008 10:38 AM
in response to: Mooseman999
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lol - typical.
Tried turning wireless on on my modem, which then promptly broke it.
Went out and bought a newer modem/router which supports WPA2 (old one didn't) and the NC10 seems fine with it. Macbook pro/appleTV/time capsule using the old network switched to 5GHZ N
imac 24" 2.4GHz
Mac OS X (10.4.10)
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Nov 14, 2006
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Re: Airport Extreme Base locks up needs reset when certain wireless devices con
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Nov 25, 2008 5:08 PM
in response to: Zoraster
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Just got my MSI Wind today, got it connect to my Airport extreme for a minute or so and then it locked up the airport. Even systems that are wired into it couldn't get on the net, though it was still showing a green status light. Unplugged router, retried several times, same results. Never would have guessed this would be a problem!
Macbook Pro C2D 15"
Mac OS X (10.4.8)
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Cupertino
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Oct 29, 2007
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Re: Airport Extreme Base locks up needs reset when certain wireless devices con
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Nov 25, 2008 5:14 PM
in response to: eriqthegeek
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That makes quite a few of us with the same Wind / AEBSn lock up scenario.
In my case disabling WPA2 on the AEBS allowed the Wind to work.
Just to document this further, can you test disabling WPA if you have it enabled?
iMac 24
Mac OS X (10.4.10)
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Detroit MI, U.S.A.
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Nov 15, 2008
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Re: Airport Extreme Base locks up needs reset when certain wireless devices
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Nov 26, 2008 2:49 AM
in response to: bhaveshp
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I bet the common denominator would be the wireless card and linux driver used. My sons EEE PC 1000 has the RaLink RT2790 Wireless 802.11n
I have to look at my sons netbook to get the wireless driver info. He is currently running Ubuntu-e on it. The lock up of the AEB was happening with both Xandros and Ubuntu.
Dual G5
Mac OS X (10.5.5)
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Re: Airport Extreme Base locks up needs reset when certain wireless devices
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Nov 26, 2008 3:07 AM
in response to: Zoraster
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Actually, in my case I'm running WinXP SP3. I'm going to try playing around with the WPA settings when I get back from work tonight.
Macbook Pro C2D 15"
Mac OS X (10.5.5)
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UK
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Re: Airport Extreme Base locks up needs reset when certain wireless devices
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Nov 26, 2008 9:08 AM
in response to: eriqthegeek
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me too, on XP SP3, its the wireless card.
iMac
Mac OS X (10.5.5)
32GB iPod Touch (2.2); Airport Extreme 1GB n
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Re: Airport Extreme Base locks up needs reset when certain wireless devices con
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Nov 26, 2008 3:24 PM
in response to: bhaveshp
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I tried disabling WPA and while I was able to connect the Wind without crashing the router, the internet connectivity on the Wind was very flaky.
I've actually been getting frustrated with my Extreme for awhile because every couple of days DNS queries to the router just stop working and I have to reset the router.
Anyway .... I pulled the trigger on a Linksys WRT160N router, and the Wind is working great with it.
Macbook Pro C2D 15"
Mac OS X (10.5.5)
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