Airport Extreme keeps falling asleep on me...
Yesterday I bought a new Netgear Cable/DSL 54mbps Wireless Router
(WGR614IS) and setup a small home network that connects to my DSL ppp
service.
Everything went smoothly the wireless was up and running in no time.
The problem however is that I my airport card seems to go into sleep
mode instantly if there is no network activity.
I became aware of the problem when I tried to run an apt-get command
in terminal. It appeared to resolve to the mirrors but failed in every
single download as if there was no internet connection. I tried this a
couple of times but each time I got the same problem.
I then ran a continuous ping on eth2 which is my airport card and
while this was pinging I was able to download all the packages
successfully first time. For some reason it seemed as if the
connection between the router and the card would be dropped if there
was no activity however the router was still very much connected to
the internet.
What I can't figure out is if this is a problem with the airport card
or the router itself. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas?
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Regards
Justin Hartman
PGP Key ID: 102CC123
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