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It doesn’t help that much, but you can make a network invisible, so that you need at least one set of hacker tools to get in. For Apple Airports, here is what you do, it is really buried in the latest user interfaces:
TMO Quick Tip – Make Your AirPort Basestation Invisible || The Mac Observer

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What the heck is going on with networks. It is complicated as heck. Try Airgrab and iStumbler to try to figure out what it out there. Still haven’t figured a simple way to find out what is the channel and actual speed of the network a Mac client is running. I can see how to [...]

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Still have two old Linksys access points. Both a WRT-54G and it is a shame to throw them away even though the Apple Airport Extreme Base Station is easier to manage. I have loaded DD-WRT which I’d recommend to anyone with the time. Way more powerful and easier to understand firmware. Strange things about it [...]

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Good news is that the 5.3.2 update looks like it is OK to take for the Airport Utility. Also I’m now using Entourage 2008 and Excel 2008 and that looks like most problems are fixed as well
Apple – Support – Discussions – Any problem with Airport Utility 5.3.2 …
Airport Utility 5.3.2 is quite harmless. More [...]

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Apple – Support – Downloads – AirPort Utility 5.3.1 for Leopard. Wow, incredibly hard to find, but the Airport Utility let’s you look at individual client performance. Very cool, but impossible to find but it shows you the nominal bit rate of the link I think that is active and changes over time.

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Macrumors.com says the $99 Airport Express is going to get 802.11n networking. This is a very nice piece of hardware that complements the Time Capsule mainly. You can use it to add a printer to your network (in essence, it converts a USB printer into a network printer), you can use it as an [...]

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