I moved into a new apartment this week, and had some not-so-fun with my internet connectivity and Time Capsule. I believe my problem started because I initially hooked up a cheapy 802.11g wireless router for the first couple days, and then swapped that out for my Time Capsule.
Once I hooked up the Time Capsule, things worked – but about once an hour it would stop routing data to the Internet. I power cycled my cable modem (using Cox) and Time Capsule about 800 times, with no luck. I played with about every Time Capsule setting; at first I thought it had something to do with the TKIP keys rotating, but that was just a red herring.
Narrowing down the issues, I found that this wasn’t specific to wireless – as an AppleTV connected to the TC via ethernet cable was also having issues. Running a continuous ping, I found that I could ‘fix’ the problem once it dropped connectivity just by renewing my DHCP lease with my ISP. The IP address given back was always the same, though.
Doing some reading out on the net – I saw someone who said to unplug EVERYTHING, leave everything sit for about 30 minutes, then start turning back on devices starting with the cable modem. So I brought up the cable modem, let it sit for a few, then Time Capsule, … This worked!
Must have been something where my ISP had the old MAC address from the cheapy router, and was getting confused. Oh well, I’ve had solid access now for over 24 hours, so I think I’m set.
