Women in Technology

Article:		Life After AirPort -- New Wireless Base Stations
Subject:		Should Expand on Apple's Base Station Recall
Date:		2001-08-14 17:28:03
From:		derrick
Editor's Note: Here's an e-mail that I received today about our incomplete coverage concerning the recall of Apple AirPort Base Stations. "I read this report with interest and was disappointed to note that there was no mention that the issue with the Apple Airport Base stations is known, and that Apple has issued a recall on base stations within the affected serial number range. As an Apple customer who has gone through having the base station die and getting another with no hassle from them, I feel that there has been a needless tilt to this article. It would be great if O'Reilly could get some of the facts from Apple and share them with the readers instead of leaving them hanging helplessly." Christine Kiltz CTO Idea Cafe Inc.

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• Should Expand on Apple's Base Station Recall
  2001-08-15 12:32:36  James Duncan Davidson | [View]
  
  
  If I had more concrete official information to pass along, I would. But like Derrick I haven't been able to find it. All I can find is posts on the web in various places that talk about a recall. In fact, the place on the web that seems to give the most complete information is linked from the article.
  
  http://www.vonwentzel.net/ABS/Repair.html
  
  The page behind this link even gives a serial number range of units covered by the recall.
  
  In any case, when my base station went down and I started writing this article, there wasn't even that. And it was out of warranty, and definitely so once I popped it open and tried to fix it.
  
  The intent of this article wasn't to continue to bemoan the loss of my trusty airport base station so much as to talk about some options in the wireless world that I researched when replacing my base station with a more feature rich solution for about the same amount of money.
  

• Should Expand on Apple's Base Station Recall
  2001-08-14 17:36:41  Derrick Story | [View]
  
  
  I went to the Apple support site and couldn't find any information about a Base Station recall. There was no mention of it on the AirPort Support page. Does anyone have more information on this that we can pass along?