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The Book of Wireless, Second Edition
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The Book of Wireless, Second Edition

by John Ross
January 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 43m
English
No Starch Press
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Is AirPort the Answer?

Because Apple could control both ends of its AirPort design—the access point and the network clients—it has come up with a system that automates the configuration hassles that confront many other Wi-Fi networks. And once you know the secret handshake (in the form of AirPort's oddball names for some standard features and functions), your Windows and Linux/Unix computers with other manufacturers' network adapters will also work perfectly well on an AirPort network.

An AirPort network is indeed the obvious choice for a wireless network in a business or household where most of the computers are Macintoshes. For the rest of us, the AirPort Extreme is a completely adequate access point, but it's considerably more expensive than ...

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