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AirPort 3.0.4 for Mac OS X
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The perfect wireless solution for home, school, and
business, the AirPort Extreme Base Station blankets your
space with a blazing-fast, secure wireless network opening
up a world of possibilities for home entertainment, backups,
printing, and more.
This updated version of the AirPort
Extreme now operates in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands
simultaneously to ensure top performance for all your
devices, and it provides a new Guest Networking option for
easy Internet sharing. It also enables you to share your
entire wireless network with up to 50 users at the same time
as well as turn a USB hard drive into a shared drive that's
accessible wirelessly on your network and now over the
Internet.
Product Features
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Easy wireless networking: In minutes, you and up to 50
others can hook up your Mac computers or PCs.
- Simultaneous dual-band Wi-Fi: works simultaneously on both
the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands.
- Guest networking: you can set up a separate Wi-Fi network
with a separate password for your visitors.
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Strong security and access control.
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Works with iPhone, Apple TV and more.
New Features
Some Wi-Fi devices use the 2.4GHz wireless band, including
iPhone, iPod touch, and devices using 802.11b/g. Other
devices can use either 2.4 GHz or the higher-speed 5 GHz
band, such as the latest 802.11n-based Mac computers and
Apple TV. Instead of choosing one of the bands, AirPort
Extreme now operates simultaneously on both bands, and your
multiband devices automatically use the best available band.
This means all your Wi-Fi devices get the fastest possible
wireless performance and the best possible range.
And with this updated Airport Extreme, it's easier than
ever to allow guests to use your Internet connection without
sharing your password or giving them access to the rest of
your network. Simply enable the new Guest Networking feature
using the AirPort Utility application and create a separate
Wi-Fi network just for your friends. You can set up this
guest network with a different password or with none at all.
Your primary network--including your printer, attached
drives, or other devices--remains secure.
Compatibility
AirPort Extreme works seamlessly and wirelessly with all
your Wi-Fi devices. In fact, it's an incredibly easy way for
up to 50 users to share a single broadband Internet
connection, USB printer, and external hard drive without
messy cables. And you don't have to worry about a difficult
network setup. AirPort Extreme uses the Bonjour technology
in Mac OS X to allow AirPort-equipped Mac computers running
Mac OS X to find each other with no effort on your
part--they discover each other just by virtue of being
connected to the network.
Computers are only part of the wireless story. If you're an
Apple TV owner, you can easily integrate it into your
AirPort Extreme network and enjoy the fastest possible
connection for syncing with your computer's iTunes library
and streaming to your widescreen TV. And if you use an
iPhone or an iPod touch, they'll connect to your AirPort
Extreme network to let you surf the web and more. iPhone
automatically switches from the cellular network to your
Wi-Fi network as soon as you walk in the front door of your
home.
AirPort Extreme works effortlessly with any computer that
uses Wi-Fi standards, whether it's a Mac or whether it's a
Dell, HP, IBM, or any other Windows-based PC. That's because
AirPort Extreme is based on a draft 802.11n specification
and is compatible with the earlier 802.11a, 802.11b, and
802.11g specifications.
Hard Drive Sharing
AirPort Extreme can turn your external USB hard drive into a
drive you can share with all the users on your network and
access securely over the Internet. This feature--AirPort
Disk--is a simple and convenient way to share files among
everyone in your family, office, or class. Just connect the
external hard drive to the USB port on the back of your
AirPort Extreme and all the documents, videos, photos, and
other files on the drive instantly become available to
anyone on the secure network, Mac and PC users alike.
If you're away from home and need a file on the hard
drive connected to your AirPort Extreme back at home, you
can now access all the files on your shared drive over the
Internet. Simply register your AirPort Extreme with a
MobileMe account (subscription required), and your drive
appears in your Finder sidebar just like any other attached
drive.
What if you'd like to exchange files over your wireless
network and still have access to a wireless printer? Easy.
Just connect a USB hub to AirPort Extreme and attach your
devices to the hub. Share both a printer and a hard drive,
multiple printers, multiple hard drives, or a combination.
Features and Specifications
- Compatible with Wi-Fi Certified 802.11a, 802.11b,
802.11g, or 802.11n enabled Mac computers, iPhone, iPod
touch, and Windows-based PCs
- Frequency bands: 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz simultaneously
- One Gigabit Ethernet WAN port for connecting a DSL
or cable modem
- Three Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports for connecting
computers or network devices
- USB 2.0 port for connecting a USB printer or USB
external hard drive
- Security: Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA/WPA2);
Wireless security (WEP) configurable for 40-bit and
128-bit encryption; MAC address filtering; NAT firewall
