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AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule Update Details: Dual-Band, Guest Networks, Remote File Access

Shuttleworth said:
Did the Airport Express price go up yesterday? It's £79 , I thought it used to be £65.
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I noticed that too, it was £65 on Monday night.

If you want one,
imp
PC World have still got them at the old price.
 
Enable "guest networking" on Linksys device.

snberk103 said:
Just got on friday a refurbished AEBS. Bad timing, I guess. However, I think I can get the equivalent of a dual band by doing the following. Would someone who actually know what they're doing (unlike me :) ) check my logic.

I have the old Linksys router that the AEBS replaced. It was b/g compatible. If I were to connect the Linksys to the AEBS with an ethernet cord, then I could have b/g devices connect to the Linksys wirelessly, and keep the AEBS for the n devices. Is this correct? That a wired connection won't make the AEBS drop to b/g compatibility mode?

If a device is connected wirelessly to the Linksys, is there a way to mimic the guest networking features of the new AEBS? That is, anything connected to the old Linksys can see the internet only?

Thanks in advance....
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Depending on the model you have, DD-WRT is a good solution to add this functionality (plus much more) to your Linksys device. Just enable wireless isolation mode and wireless devices will only be able to see the internet.

Contact me with your model number and I will let you know. Its fairly simple to do and I should be able to walk you through it if you have a compatible device. If you can't figure it out I might be willing to do it if you send it to me.
 
Other Updates

What are the odds that the Airport Express and Airport extreme base station with gigabit ethernet will get updated soon?
 
emt1 said:
The reason it costs more is for the same reason you are complaining about it costing more. Could you get similar functionality from two separate and cheaper devices? Yes. Do people see the value in having it all in one device? Yes, and clearly you do, which is why you are complaining. It costs more because people are willing to pay more for it. I'm sure you knew that though, you just like to complain.

Don't like it? Don't buy it.
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That's just it, I'm NOT buying one precisely because it's too expensive.

Why are you defending Apple's idiotic pricing? You do realize that if it were less expensive, you'd pay less for it too, right?

Do you get some sort of high out of being ripped off? I never understood people who actually *defend* high prices.
 
zorinlynx said:
That's just it, I'm NOT buying one precisely because it's too expensive.

Why are you defending Apple's idiotic pricing? You do realize that if it were less expensive, you'd pay less for it too, right?

Do you get some sort of high out of being ripped off? I never understood people who actually *defend* high prices.
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Of course we would pay less; people are alway willing to pay less, even if it is an amazing deal. But we are willing to pay the price Apple is asking, and that is why they sell it at that price.
 
gbrandt said:
Speed degrades if a a/b/g joins an n network on the same frequency. Hence the dual band. If a/b/g are at 2.4GHz you can run n at 5 GHz and will have no loss in speed.
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For the record, 802.11a works at 5 GHz, not 2.4 GHz (it came out before g, and was the high speed option until they figured out how to do an equal speed at 2.4 GHz and realized people cared too much about backward compatibility to go to a). So a can interfere at 5 GHz, b/g can interfere at 2.4 GHz. The caution on Apple's website is valid.
 
skye12 said:
I've been using my old flying saucer AEBS for 5 years on g. This new dual band is going to make me pull the trigger.

Wonder what use my old one could possibly be useful for?
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Creating multiple networks around the house. I have done so, and you would be suprised :D
 
rikers_mailbox said:
Apple would rather pimp Bonjour for zero-config networking devices. Apple supports open standards, but uPNP is *too* open and has a number of issues (like security exploits).
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UPnP is not 'more' open, it's created by an industry forum, based on some semi-standardized outdated protocols:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upnp#Problems_with_UPnP
# UPnP uses HTTP over UDP (known as HTTPU and HTTPMU for unicast and multicast), even though this is not standardized and is specified only in an Internet-Draft that expired in 2001. [1]
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While Bonjour provides some of the overlap with UPnP (with Zeroconf/Avahi/etc implementing it just fine on Linux), the more important thing for a lot of people is NAT-PMP (port mapping protocol), which *is* a current IETF draft, is much less of a mess to implement, and is supported by lots of software.
 
CrossedBearings said:
My AEBS gets pretty warm when running at peak power.
The aluminum would be great to disperse the heat from the device. Not sure that the black plastic would help too much though!
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The problem is you don't really want your antennas inside a metal enclosure (faraday cage), and Apple's designers seem averse to external antennas.
 
zorinlynx said:
That's just it, I'm NOT buying one precisely because it's too expensive.

Why are you defending Apple's idiotic pricing? You do realize that if it were less expensive, you'd pay less for it too, right?

Do you get some sort of high out of being ripped off? I never understood people who actually *defend* high prices.
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I bought my TC refurbished on eBay. I didnt think it was a rip off so I bought it. If you don't like the price, don't buy it. It's really a very simple concept.
 
HailToTheVictor said:
Ok. I have subsequently been able to get the machine to recognize there is a drive attached but this appears under the shared devices tab. When I go into the Time Machine prefs and set the disk it start prepping for a backup, but then TM says there is not enough room on the drive for the backup. I believe what TM is doing is creating a whole new backup and not adding the changes to the previous TM backups. So, I think that this could be worked around by starting fresh, which is what I will probably end up doing with my new tb drive, but can anyone else confirm any of this?
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While the other poster is correct that you can make it work, the issues that you're having are not uncommon either. I eventually got it to work, but I think there was some bit of magic I had to do at the command line to get it to recognize the old backups and pick-up where it left off. If you google around a bit you should find advice... I eventually gave up since my laptop is almost always at my desk anyway, I just plug my backup drive in directly via firewire.

Then again, I have the very first-gen 802.11n router (the one with 100 Mbps ports, not 1 Gbps), so it's possible it's got other internal hardware limitations that make it less smooth.
 
2TB limit on Time Capsule/Time Machine??

Anyone know if the 2TB limit on drive sizes for TimeMachine (and consequently using TimeMachine with TimeCapsule) is in the cards for an increase or update?

I'd love to use TimeMachine with a 4 x 1.5 TB Drobo or 6 x 1.5 TB Netgear ReadyNAS Pro, but the 2TB limit stops that, requiring SuperDuper or the like.

Anyone know? :)

tri3limited said:
Im liking the MobileMe features.
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klittle32 said:
How does the file sharing via MobileMe differ from file sharing using Back to My Mac?
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Back to my Mac requires that you have a Mac back home, a lot of notebook user won't have another Mac back home. But they might have a TC or AEBS with an attached drive at home.
 
Yeah that is why I am excited about it. I use a MBP but have a 1.5 TB drive hooked up on my router back home. Being able to access it will be really nice. I just hope it works better than Back to My Mac, which is sketchy at best.
 
macleod199 said:
While the other poster is correct that you can make it work, the issues that you're having are not uncommon either. I eventually got it to work, but I think there was some bit of magic I had to do at the command line to get it to recognize the old backups and pick-up where it left off. If you google around a bit you should find advice... I eventually gave up since my laptop is almost always at my desk anyway, I just plug my backup drive in directly via firewire.

Then again, I have the very first-gen 802.11n router (the one with 100 Mbps ports, not 1 Gbps), so it's possible it's got other internal hardware limitations that make it less smooth.
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FWIW- a bunch of the tips about getting Time Machine working on an AEBS with USB drive say to mount the drive to your computer directly for the first backup. From what I remember back when this was first enabled, that actually causes more issues in the long run because the path TM is looking for your drive on has changed. I have been running mine successfully with two different machines, but let it do the initial (and, obviously, subsequent) backups over the network. Yes, it's incredibly slow, but if you want that initial backup to be solid, I recommend doing it that way. If you want to speed it up a little, connect your machine via ethernet for that initial one, and that should boost things a bit.
 
back to my mac

ross.32 said:
Yeah that is why I am excited about it. I use a MBP but have a 1.5 TB drive hooked up on my router back home. Being able to access it will be really nice. I just hope it works better than Back to My Mac, which is sketchy at best.
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Hmmm, again, fwiw, I haven't had a single issue with BTMMac- works flawlessly across several machines on LAN and remotely from states away.
 
I have 2 laptops that I try to use it on with one connected to a Airport Extreme and the other to a college network. I can't activate BTMM on either one of them, even the one on the AE.
 
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