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Q: Airport Express acting as wifi range extender drops out intermittently and has to be rebooted to reacquire wifi from router.  Anyone experience intermittent behavior?  Airport Express is 3 years old.

Airport Express functioning as a wifi range extender drops out intermittently and has to be rebooted to reacquire wifi signal from router.  Have measured router wifi signal and it is strong when dropout occurs.  Airport Express is @ 3 years old. 

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Jun 27, 2015 4:07 PM

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  • by Tesserax,

    Tesserax Tesserax Jun 27, 2015 5:17 PM in response to livingthegudlife
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    Jun 27, 2015 5:17 PM in response to livingthegudlife

    I am assuming that the AirPort Express in question is extending another Apple base station ... correct? If so, what is the exact models numbers of each unit.

     

    3 years is a bit early for issues, but it's not unheard of. Most likely, there are either / or the following that may be the culprit: 1) Wi-Fi interference and/or 2) The current physical placement of the Express is not ideal.

     

    For the former you would want to determine what may be the potential causes of interference and try to eliminate them. For the latter, please take a look at the following AirPort User Tip for additional assistance.