Comments on: New AirPort Extreme Features Leopard Ready?

By: nick Regan

nick Regan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:51:22 +0000

i just wanted to know if i was to put the base station in my kitchen and my wireless router is in my room can i use the express to be used as a repeater i know the speed will be slower because my router is g but can i use it as a repeater basically?

By: Bottleneck

Bottleneck — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:54:47 +0000

Basically this is a silly conversation as if you are a tech person you realize that this makes no sense at all. For all those people that said the Extreme does not make sense they are right. If you have a N-router that is capable of the advertised 300Mbps throughput but you only have 100Mbps coming in then you have natural bottleneck. How can you get 300 out if you only get 100 in. Therefore you are really transmitting 100 out as that is your bottleneck. A N-router with gigabit is insane. I own the Airport Extreme because I wanted to check it out. Once I got it home I realized that it did not have gigabit (my fault as I should have read more about it). I am taking it back today unless Apple has done the classic switch on me and the router is actually gigabit and needs a firmware upgrade like the notebooks that shipped with N wireless cards (I discovered before they annouced by installing windows on my macbook). I would wait or at the very least get a router that has the ability to receive more than 100Mbps. Later.

By: confused

confused — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:13:47 +0000

How about this scenario? I have 5 firewire / usb drives. Can I chain the 5 drives together via firewire and then attach it to the router via USB and have all of them be available on the network? Or will only one drive show up?

By: drkmstr

drkmstr — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:17:44 +0000

Linksys offers a 4 port 10/100/1000 ethernet edition of it’s 802.11n router. Since apple makes computers equipped with 10/100/1000 network cards it does seem silly to not have an apple router capable of 1000

By: Alison

Alison — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:20:37 +0000

Well, I am miffed that there isn’t a firewire port because I have 2 firewire hard drives that I wanted to use. These cost £100 each so I can’t go and buy usb ones now. Real shame, I so wanted to have my hard drives tucked into the cuboard and back up wirelessly.
Cheers.

By: Martijn Stegink

Martijn Stegink — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:30:17 +0000

Firewire doesn’t really make sense for this device. USB does up to 480MB which is faster than the wifi or direct connection can deliver anyway. And most external device have USB not firewire.

By: Time Machine via AirPort? at MacMove

Time Machine via AirPort? at MacMove — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:54:43 +0000

[...] Well, over at The Apple Blog, BJ Clark is thinking along the same lines, with some up-to-date information regarding the new Instant Drive Sharing capabilities built in to the upgraded AirPort Extreme: [...]

By: La nueva Airport Extreme y el futuro Leopard

La nueva Airport Extreme y el futuro Leopard — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:19:50 +0000

[...] Acabo de leer en en theappleblog algo que a muchos nos puede interesar. En las nuevas Airport Extreme recién presentadas este martes, se encuentra la funcionalidad de Instant Drive Sharing, que podríamos traducir como “compartición instantánea de discos”. Se refiere a la posibilidad de conectar un disco a la entrada USB 2.0 del Airport Extreme, y dicho disco es compartido a todos los usuarios de la red. [...]

By: Scottie Biddle

Scottie Biddle — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:57:13 +0000

Excellent Point Niel- all those Mac mini-shaped HDDs now have a new home. It’s a shame the Apple TV doesn’t share the form factor or have expansion, or you’d be able to store every movie ever on it.

By: BJ Clark

BJ Clark — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:43:17 +0000

Good Point Niel, hadn’t thought of that one yet, but it does make sense.

@kaiser: All that sounds good and all, but really the only reason I back up is for drive failure, and all the file system tricks in the world won’t fix that.