by jcramer
Does the Airport Extreme support UPNP?
or do you have to manually open ports for say xbox live, psn and other games and devices?
Apple AirPort Extreme
includes: (Late 2009) Dual Band, (Early 2009) Dual band
latest questions
by gurnam
Can you identify the speed bottleneck?
Between a desktop connected via wired ethernet to Airport Extreme 5th Gen (Gigabit ethernet) connected via a powered USB 2.0 hub to an external USB hard drive which spins at 5400RPM, what would be speed bottleneck?
USB 2.0
or
HDD RPM
or
Gigabit Ethernet
or
USB Hub
I ask because I have an option of switching to a 7200RPM drive and not sure if its worth it. This setup is ONLY for Time Machine backups. A couple of laptops will be connecting over WiFi N for TM backups but my primary desktop which I'm most... Read more →
USB 2.0
or
HDD RPM
or
Gigabit Ethernet
or
USB Hub
I ask because I have an option of switching to a 7200RPM drive and not sure if its worth it. This setup is ONLY for Time Machine backups. A couple of laptops will be connecting over WiFi N for TM backups but my primary desktop which I'm most... Read more →
by brett
Can you 'daisy chain' two routers?
One of my roommates has an Airport Extreme that just refuses to be set up on our network for some reason. After that mess, we took 2 minutes and set up a Linksys WRT120N that works perfectly. The problem is that one roommate needs his Airport Extreme so that he can hook up his external hard drives. Is it a pain to daisy chain the routers or should it be just as easy as plugging his router into the first ethernet port of the Linksys?
by brett
What is the best 802.11n router available?
I need to get a new router considering a couple things: 1. Speed -- we will have 5 people ravenously drinking up the interwebz simultaneously. 2. Printer AND hard drive capability via USB - The router has to be able to do both of these things but not necessarily at the same time (i.e. it could just have one USB port). What router would you recommend? If you haven't found an amazing one yet, have you found any routers that I should avoid?
by dave
Are you interested in the rumored "software update caching" in the upcoming Airport Extreme / Time Capsule refresh?
Apple's wi-fi base stations are due to be refreshed in the near future. They're rumored to have "software update caching" built in. How does it work? Via 9 to 5 Mac: "What we do know is that Apple has been internally testing Time Capsules to cache Software Updates for both Mac and iOS devices. The way we’ve heard it works is that the new Time Capsule learns which devices connect to it via Wifi. It then goes out to Apple’s servers and downloads Software Updates for those products. When the...
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by epaps
Will Apple be releasing a new AirPort Extreme soon?
There were rumors about Apple releasing one at WWDC, but that came and went.
by subgadget
2 x AirPort Extreme in repeater-mode over-the-air?
Right now we are using a dual-band airport express in our office. the airport express is connected to our broadband -WAN. now I'ld like to buy a second airport and use it as a "repeater". does the second router have to be wired to the first one with ethernet, or can airport express repeat "over-the-air"? thx!
by nateman99
Does the Airport support QoS?
I know the router has the typical "Apple bumpers" to keep us from bruising our knees and so doesn't expose many advanced features, but does the router understand and prioritize QoS tagged packets? Or, does it completely ignore priority tags?
by dssstrkl
Is there a good reason to buy an Airport Extreme over, say a Cisco e4200 with dd-wrt?
My house has primarily Macs and I occasionally use MobileMe's Back to my Mac. I'm leaning towards the e4200, but curious if there are any grand reasons to use the Airport.
by nitehawk
I am looking into a refurbed Apple Airport Express.
For what it does $70 on the apple website doesn't seem bad, but I realized that the product is about 2 years old. Is apple going to make a new (better) one? Should I buy the old model off of ebay/amazon.com? If I could get it for only $50 that would be sweet, but the more I look, the more it seems that it's just the same to get it from the Apple website. Thoughts? I would be using it as a router, possibly for wireless printing, and definitely for the wireless music hookup. Anyone have...
by swbassman88
Ok, so I recently bought this router, plugged it in to my home network, WAN and all.
I set it up on my Macbook, but when I tried to access the internet, it didn't work. For some reason, the DNS server code isn't working with the router, can anybody help?
by ShortDude
I have my xbox 360 hooked up to my airport via ethernet cable. According to speedtest.
net my computer (running on wireless) is getting about 15 mbps download and 4mbps upload. My xbox seems to be running slow though. When i plugged it in it just connected and I didn't have to enter my password at all so idk if i'm running on the guest network or the regular one. How can I help my xbox live connection?
by miked378
Setting up with Motorola Surfboard SB5120 on Comcast
Just wanted to pass along my experience with setting up the Airport Extreme base station with a Motorolo SB 5120 cable modem. Previously, I had been using a Linksys WRT54g v6, and had cloned the cable modem's MAC address -- so when I got started setting up the Airport Extreme, the first thing I did was drop into manual setup and start trying to find how to clone the MAC address (you can't, as far as I can tell or find on the internet). In the manual setup, there is **very** little...
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by Branchex
Is there a way to do setup and administration for this in Tiger?
According to Apple, Leopard or its snowy successor is required for setup and administration (yet XP can do it). http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC340LL/A/AirPor... Is there someway around this through a hack, 3rd party software or something else other than an OS upgrade?
by Jonbruc
Work around using Airport Extreme and Verizon Fios
I just bought an Airport extreme to share hard drives within my house, and was disappointed to discover that it does now support the old WEP 40 security used by my Verizon Fios (Actiontec) router. I live in a house with the Actiontec in the rec room, and want the Airport Extreme in the office. So, instead of running ethernet between, I plugged an Airport Express into the router, and used it to create a second network with the protocol that the Airport Express can connect to.
by atdrendel
Port Mapping and Eliminate
I've got the 1Gb ethernet a,g,n version of the Airport Extreme, and I love it...except when it comes to port mapping. I had been able to make it work for every program I've got on my computers, iPhones, and iPods until I downloaded and installed Eliminate on my iPhone. I can't connect to the server. The game works over 3G, but the lag is a little too high for me (I'm living in China). I want to use it over wifi. I emailed ngmoco's support, and they told me to open up the...
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help with viewing videos from external hd via aiport extreme on a xbox 360
Hi guys my friend has an airport extreme and he has a couple of videos on a hard disk connected to it which he is trying to watch on his 360. the 360 doesnt seem to see the hd but his mac and pc can see it fine and he can do the normal transfering etc like a network disk should do does anyone know if it is possible to stream the vidoes to the 360 without a pc being on and using MS media center to get it wokring? e.g amending the extrmes setting to turn it more in to a NAS your thoughts and ideas...
by Lunco
Does this work with xbox360?
Does the Airport Extreme work with the xbox360? I now that Express doesn't, so I'm wondering if this does.
by gadgetoiduk
Odd IP Address Assignments
I recently bought a 13" MBP and took the opportunity to upgrade my AirPort Extreme to the shiny new dual network version. It's all set up and, more or less, working with simultaneous backwards-compatible and pure-N (5ghz) networks. However, I keep getting a very strange problem that particularly occurs with my partners late 2007 MacBook Pro where the AirPort Extreme will think it's assigned an IP address to a client, however that client will have a self-assigned IP and, thus, is...
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