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#APPLE AIRPORT EXTREME 802.11 N MAC#
Even if the sales person and the store home page states Mac Tiger as minimum requirements.
#APPLE AIRPORT EXTREME 802.11 N MAC OS#
When trying to install the setup software for the Airport Extreme I get the message that Mac OS 10.5.x is required as minimum. The idea is to connect the external drive to the Airport Extreme in order to share the drive. I have bought a Western Digital My Book Essential 1.5 TB and a Airport Extreme 802.11n Wi-Fi base station. I also have a mini Mac running Mac OS Tiger (I think 10.4.8) and another laptop running Vista.
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I have a stationary PC and one laptop, both running windows XP. Now that we've got our wireless technology primer out of the way, let's talk about the new features added to the router.I want to create a home network connecting a mini mac, PCs, Iphone and an external hard drive shared by computer units. Accessing a g network at this distance (and in the extremely crowded 2.4GHz band around my apartment in Chicago), I could not sustain transfer rates higher than 18Mbps. Contrast this to the 57Mbps that I got when directly wired into the router. In tests on my personal network with 100Mb Ethernet as the backbone and with the base station set to 5GHz/n-only mode, I was never able to sustain transfer rates greater than 25Mbps over the air (with a 40 foot distance between transmitter and receiver).
However, like most things, interference, overhead, and losses in the system will knock that down to somewhere around 80Mbps (this test was done with two 802.11n machines in a peer-to-peer wireless network at a distance of roughly five feet), although some testers claim typical throughput nearer to 200Mbps. The theoretical maximum of 802.11n is given as 540Mbps. 802.11n takes advantage of spatial diversity (which has been quite standard in the mobile phone industry for years with the use of dual- and quad-pole antennas) to improve the signal strength at great distances, approaching 175 ft or further.īut most people will be buying 802.11n hardware for the speed boost. This means as more 5GHz-class devices come online, there will still be less crowding and more opportunities to channel-bond. The 5GHz band should also be slower to fill up as the 5GHz unlicensed band is significantly larger than the 2.4GHz one and thus contains many more 20MHz channels.For now, the 5GHz band is pretty much barren, even in big cities.
#APPLE AIRPORT EXTREME 802.11 N BLUETOOTH#
Wireless phones, microwaves, bluetooth devices, and other wireless access points are blasting throughout this entire band, causing massive interference, especially in urban environments. They overlap and they've long been crowded. There are only 14 channels in the 2.4GHz band. Operating in the 5GHz range holds several advantages over the 2.4 GHz band:
Shortly after its release, the IEEE announced that it would release the second version of this draft for approval.
802.11n is still not set in stone as a standard, and the flavor implemented in Apple's base station is the first draft. It's the most widely publicized feature of the new AirPort base station, but not the most exciting.