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Connection Failed - Airport Extreme

I started to notice this after the last Firmware update I think. I've got a unibody Macbook, Airport exreme basestation.

Every few hours, i lose my connection to the base station, but not wireless. Internet is fine, i can get to iDisk, but I can't reach the AP or the Drobo hung off it. Time Machine fails, etc.

Airport utility works, I can connect and update the device. Sometimes simply forcing it to cycle works sometimes I have to unplug it. In both cases a few hours later, "Connection Failed"

unibody MacBook, MacBook Air, iPhone, iTouch, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jul 17, 2009 2:51 PM

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Sep 21, 2009 1:08 PM in response to Chhas

I have a related problem: I own an AP Extreme Base Station and have a harddisk attached to it. I use this etup as a file server for my workgroup. After several hours or days, the AP-attached harddisk refuses to have files saved/copied to it. Instead, whoever tries to write/copy something onto the disk gets an error message that the file name is to long or contains invalid characters. Copying files from the harddrive to an attached Mac does work, however. After a restart, everything is well again...

I will try to downgrade the software revision - but: does anyone have any suggestions what's the cause of this behavior?

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co-operate

Oct 9, 2009 2:23 PM in response to cooperate

Btw if anyone is interested: downgrading my airport base station to 7.4.1 solved the issue for me. With 7.4.2 there were intermittent errors where I could not write files to the harddrive attahced to the airport base station. The error was something along the lines of "filename too long or containing invalid characters". The error message did not appear again since downgrading.

Connection Failed - Airport Extreme