I have a new Airport Extreme N wireless basestation, and unfortunately it is causing nothing but problems so far. The device crashes daily (often multiple times) and requires a power cycle to make things work again. Connectivity to it is completely lost for both wired and wireless clients.

Here's a little more detail about what my setup is:
- Airport Extreme N wireless basestation, latest firmware
- D-Link powered USB hub plugged into the Airport's USB port
- Western Digital MyBook Mirror 2 TB USB hard drive hooked up to the hub (all default setup still, 1 partition)
- Samsung ML-2010 USB laser printer also hooked up to the USB hub

What I've been doing a lot of is populating the WD drive hooked up to the Airport (via the USB hub). I've been re-ripping all my CDs in iTunes using Apple Lossless Compression, with my iTunes library residing on the WD drive. Also, I have enabled Time Machine on my main computer (MacBook Pro), so that is periodically doing its backup business. Finally, there are some other network clients that are doing fairly minimal network activity (AppleTV, my wife's iBook, and an older desktop Mac).

It seems like everything I'm doing would be considered kosher, so I'm really disappointed at the incredibly instability of the AirPort Extreme. As I type this, the Airport is only barely working, the wireless is up but the shared drives are not visible and I cannot connect to it with AirPort Utility. Have I just gotten a lemon, or am I doing something wrong? I can't believe its normally this unstable, its pretty much unusable.

Any help would really be appreciated, I really want to make this setup work.


-Tim

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Annoying music pops onto my iMac periodically, even when all applications are closed and the internet is disconnected.

I've identified it as the soundtrack from a game called "Jack Frost" that my son plays on a website called "Nitrome".

I've tried doing a system search using the terms "Jack Frost" and "Nitrome" but can't find the offending file.

Is there any way to find this file as it plays. Could it be adware, malware or a trojan?

Any advice is appreciated.

Hi all,

I have a wonderful tale of Microsoft's own mouse not working with their own products (yet working with OS X perfectly) and I wanted to see if anybody had solved this problem.

On my MBP, I have tried both XP and Vista and they work well. I have the Bootcamp 2.1 update installed and no missing hardware/etc. Currently, I'm using Vista64, but XP32 had the same problem.

I pair my Logitech MX900 BT mouse using the BT Control Panel applet and it finds the mouse, pops-up "installing drivers" and everything works well. In the "services" tab for the BT device, it shows a general HID mouse/keyboard.

Now, I try to do the same with my MS BT 5000 mouse. I pair, Windows shows "Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000" but never shows the "installing drivers". Visiting the "services" tab shows nothing at all. Periodically, I'll see "connected" flash under the mouse in the BT Control Panel but it won't stay connected as the Logitech does. If I close the BT Control Panel window and re-open it, the Logitech remains, but the MS 5000 is completely gone, as if it had never been paired.

I know my way around a Winbloze box pretty well and I'm stumped on what to do here. The fact that the Logitech BT mouse works flawlessly shows that the BT stack is setup and working. I've got all the latest updates from MS (including SP1 for Vista64) and I even installed the latest Intellipoint 6.2, which provided no change in the behavior described above.

Does anyone have any ideas what I need to do to make a Microsoft mouse work with a Microsoft OS in Bootcamp? (I don't have BT on my Winbloze desktop, so I can't test the mouse with a "native" install of the OS).

Thanks,
Mike