W800 Testing

[Jack Stewart]

Chuck and Michael,

Thanks a lot for your help. I can't find any way to get the W800 
to receive anything and yet have no positive way to know that it 
has failed. It's power supply output looks good on a VOM.

The rest of Xtension seems OK but I was experimenting with some 
"Network" and "Sharing" settings on the machine around the time 
that the wireless failed and I'm concerned that I might have 
changed something affecting the W800 without realizing it.

I am using a legacy version of Xtension, V6.2 - build 793 
because it is rock solid in unattended operation. The Mac-Mini 
is a G4 running OSX 10.5.8 The W800 is the original style, no 
longer available. I guess that means I have to buy a new one and 
swap to find out if that's really it,  (Unless you know of any 
other tests I can do). I have one of Jeff Volpe's X10 signal 
analyzers but can't think of any way in which to use it for this 
problem. The Xtension log show no activity when I perform a 
wireless transmission. Antenna and cable seem fine. No 
difference when I disconnected them.

I'm wondering if I should go to the latest model of the old 
style or if a USB version is better. Any thoughts?

Any added thoughts on verifying if my W800 is really dead?

Thanks again,

Jack


On 5/13/16, Chuck said ……

>Jack,
>
>If you have the non USB version then check out the power 
>supply. I had one fail. If you haven’t ever used a multimeter 
>to test a wall wort be very careful no to short it out when testing.
>
>You can also take the antenna off and put a wireless unit right 
>next to the W800 and trigger the wireless unit. It should show 
>up in the log. Make sure you have the log set to show all. This 
>will help rule out the antenna and cable.
>
>I had a W800 stop responding and just unplugged it and let it 
>sit for a few minutes and then plugged it back in. It started 
>working again and has been working for years. I think it was 
>just corrosion on the power connection but don’t know for sure.
>
>Chuck
>
>
>On May 13, 2016, at 2:11 AM, Jack Stewart <jacks at amug.org> wrote:
>>    I think that I have a w800 failure. What is the best way 
>>to isolate
>and test it?
>> Thanks. ~Jack
>>   Jack
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