Last week I was on a business trip and brought my airport express with me to serve as a wireless point off of the in-room high speed ethernet. The set up was easy and I got everything going just fine. However, after about an hour of operation the airport express would go to the blinking orange light, claiming that the ethernet connection is lost. At first, I thought that perhaps the ISP for Marriott was having issues, but when I would switch the ethernet cable over to my powerbook, the powerbook was immediately able to get on and stay on the Marriott network and did not experience any outages. The conditions under which the airport express was operating were: (1) internet connection = DHCP address through ethernet, (2) networking = DHCP + NAT serving of wireless clients, (3) WPA encryption. I experienced this problem at least 8-10 times over the 4 days that I was in the hotel.
I am wondering if my airport express (a) has a hardware problem or (b) has a software problem that causes it to go on strike after a certain amount of time. Has anyone else seen issues like this when running the airport express under similar conditions? Thanks.
I am wondering if my airport express (a) has a hardware problem or (b) has a software problem that causes it to go on strike after a certain amount of time. Has anyone else seen issues like this when running the airport express under similar conditions? Thanks.