Q: Airport Extreme 2nd Generation intermittent WiFi
I’m having a weird problem with loss of WiFi on my Apple Airport Extreme.
My 2nd generation Apple Airport Extreme Base Station has begun shutting its WiFi signal off repeatedly. It happens usually after about 60 minutes or less working fine. Powering it off and on again makes it work for a while until it again shuts off the WiFi. The normally Green light at the front either remains static without any flickering to indicate data transfer, or it just goes dark. Sometimes it will shut off WiFi and then restart WiFi some minutes later and appear to be fine. But mostly it just stops and I have to power it off/on to get it working properly with WiFi again.
The Airport Extreme is connected by ethernet cable to my main fibre modem/router (which is on a different floor in my home) and it’s set up in ‘Bridge Mode’. It was working without any problems and I did not make any changes to my system. My service provider did update my fiber broadband modem a few weeks ago to a ‘Virgin Media Hub 3.0’ which I understand is made by Compal. It seems to be working flawlessly and I have had no issues with download/upload speeds or reliability in wired mode. I was away from home for about a week and was able to access my wireless IP camera remotely through my Airport Extreme without any problems. The problem began almost immediately on my return, but, as I said, I did not make any changes to my network. I have never had this kind of problem before with my Airport Extreme.
I’m running OS X Yosemite on an iMac which is connected by ethernet cable to the Airport Extreme and seems to be working fine even when the WiFi drops out on the Airport Extreme. Airport Utility reports the Airport as running firmware version 7.6.7.
I used the Network Utility, Fing, and it showed that my Airport Extreme had multiple IP addresses, which seem to conflict with the IP address for my three Apple TVs. I manually changed the IP addresses of the Apple TVs to a different non-conflicting IP address, but Fing is still showing that my Airport Extreme has three IP addresses and I still have the WiFi problem.
Any other suggestions about a probable cause of this problem or how best to troubleshoot the issue would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), Apple Airport Extreme Base Station
Posted on Sep 19, 2016 12:37 PM

