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Dammit Apple! | |
November 2nd, 2018 | |
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My Apple Airport Extrme (A1143) stopped working a couple of days ago, | |
I finally got around to seeing what was up with it last night and it | |
was not pretty: the status indicator LED on the front was flashing | |
between amber & green... According to the Apple docs: | |
> In some older versions of AirPort Utility, you can select the base | |
> station and choose Base Station > Identify from the menu bar, which | |
> causes this alternating light sequence. It helps you to identify the | |
> selected base station when multiple base stations are available. | |
Unfortunatly nobody on my network had done any such thing... Assuming | |
it was just a system hang, I went to unplug the power brick and plug it | |
back in... The power brick literally crumbled in my hand exposing live | |
interals. Scary. | |
As I have never been satisifed with the A1143 (it's dual band, but only | |
supports one band at a time, LOL), I have decided to replace it... | |
While I am at it, the ASUS RT-N66U that I am using elsewhere is also | |
having issues, the 5 GHz radio on it is basically unusable, and the 2.4 | |
GHz radio randomly kicks off all clients briefly, which is a real PITA | |
when I am on a WhatsApp call... This time I will be going with | |
professional gear, I'll replace both flaky APs with the Ubiquiti UAP | |
AC LR, it has some sweet long range radios in it on both bands, and it | |
is supports 802.3af power over ethernet (PoE). Good time to get more | |
switch ports too while I am at it for future expansion, on my RT-N66U | |
I am using every available port already. | |
Part of my network includes some wireless bridges that are powered by | |
24v passive PoE, so I nabbed some adapters to plug them into the new | |
PoE switches as well... Less power bricks laying around, for the win! | |
Now for the bill: | |
Ubiquiti UniFi UAP AC Long Range (UAP-AC-LR) x 2 $192.66 | |
TRENDNet TPE-TG44G Gigabit PoE+ GREENnet PoE+ Switch x 1 $ 74.89 | |
TP-Link TL-SG51005P 5-port gigabit switch w/4-port PoE x 1 $ 64.19 | |
Ubiquiti Instant 802.3AF adapter (gigabit) INS-3AF-O-G x 2 $ 38.76 | |
$370.50, ouch, my poor wallet! :o | |
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