January 2008
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 43m
English
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 ...