Configuring Advanced AirPort Features

AirPort has a few more tricks up its sleeve, mostly in the realm of providing greater control over network settings.

The Show All Settings button in the Airport Admin Utility displays all of the base station's settings, organized in tabs. If you're familiar with older versions of the AirPort Admin Utility, you'll notice some changes in version 3.1 and above. The most obvious change is the addition of a WDS tab, which groups all the features related to wireless bridging.

AirPort Tab

All WDS configuration information has been moved off the AirPort tab. Also, the AirPort tab has a Channel pop-up menu and a Wireless ...

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