The Airport Extremes elegant design is small and unobtrusive, as the three antennae are embedded inside the chassis.
2eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple AirPort Extreme – AirPorts Ports
The AirPort includes a three port 10/100 switch (the WAN port doubles as a switch port in bridge mode) as well as a USB port to connect a printer or hard drive to the network.
3eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple AirPort Extreme – AirPort Utility
AirPort Extreme introduces a new configuration utility that is backwards compatible with older Apple wireless equipment.
4eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple AirPort Extreme – Wizard Network Services
We already had a DHCP server and router on the network. We also had to go into manual mode to configure AirPorts bridge mode to open up another switch port.
5eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple AirPort Extreme – Wizard Security
The wizard only opens up the basic security a home user would enable.
6eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple AirPort Extreme – Manual Configuration
The manual configuration mode opens up a wealth of options to configure wireless, disks, logging or printers.
In manual configuration, AirPort Extreme offers a complete array of wireless privacy options including WPA2 with support for a RADIUS server.
8eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple AirPort Extreme – Beefed-up Wireless MAC Security
We could set up per-client access time restrictions.
9eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple AirPort Extreme – Advanced Wireless Settings
We chose not to hide the SSID or to use Interference robustness.
10eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple AirPort Extreme – 2.4 v. 5 GHz Clients
To the left, the client attaches to AirPorts 2.4 GHz network, which only uses a 20 MHz channel. To the right, our network is 5 Ghz-enabled using channel bonding.
11eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple AirPort Extreme – System Tray Resident Applet
We could easily identify and access AirPort-enabled USB disks from the system tray applet.
12eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple AirPort Extreme – AirPort Recognizes USB Disks
In the foreground, AirPort correctly identifies our disk and volume. In the background, the AirPort fails to recognize the Windows-formatted disk.
13eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple AirPort Extreme – Different Ways to Access USB Disks
We could set up individual user logins to access AirPorts USB disks.
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