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Apple Airport Invisible

October 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

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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Apple Airport Client Performance

May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Airport Utility

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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Time Capsule and Airport Extreme Downgrade to 7.3 and MBA Problems

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well, many folks on Apple’s discussion are talking about performance issues with 7.3.1. Like me, I now lose the connection to the Time Capsule drive and then Time Machine fails and looks for a password (which should be on the key chain).
The other problem is slow network speeds where folks are seeeing speed stuck [...]

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