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... 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 5 Getting Started 6 How AirPort Works 6 How Wireless Internet Access Is Provided 7 Configuring AirPort Extreme Base Station and AirPort Express for Internet Access 7 AirPort Express Assistant 8 AirPort Admin Utility 8 Extending the Range of Your AirPort Network 9 AirTunes 9 Printing via an AirPort Extreme Base Station or AirPort Express 10 Sharing Your Computer's Internet Connection 11 AirPort Security 11 Security for AirPort Networks at Home 12 Security for...
... 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 5 Getting Started 6 How AirPort Works 6 How Wireless Internet Access Is Provided 7 Configuring AirPort Extreme Base Station and AirPort Express for Internet Access 7 AirPort Express Assistant 8 AirPort Admin Utility 8 Extending the Range of Your AirPort Network 9 AirTunes 9 Printing via an AirPort Extreme Base Station or AirPort Express 10 Sharing Your Computer's Internet Connection 11 AirPort Security 11 Security for AirPort Networks at Home 12 Security for...
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... can play iTunes music. You can set up an AirPort Extreme Base Station or an AirPort Express and connect to the Internet without being connected using AirTunes. Through a wireless network you can access the Internet, share files, play multiplayer games, and more . 5 But since the AirPort base stations are using AirPort Express, connect it . • If you are flexible powerful...
... can play iTunes music. You can set up an AirPort Extreme Base Station or an AirPort Express and connect to the Internet without being connected using AirTunes. Through a wireless network you can access the Internet, share files, play multiplayer games, and more . 5 But since the AirPort base stations are using AirPort Express, connect it . • If you are flexible powerful...
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... to be compatible with AirPort. Likewise, with AirPort, your computer does not establish a wireless connection with AirPort computers. If you can connect Ethernet computers to the base station LAN (G) port. If you are setting up an AirPort Extreme Base Station, you are using an AirPort Extreme Base Station or an AirPort Express, and all wireless communication goes through a wireless network. The handset of AirPort Admin Utility is compatible...
... to be compatible with AirPort. Likewise, with AirPort, your computer does not establish a wireless connection with AirPort computers. If you can connect Ethernet computers to the base station LAN (G) port. If you are setting up an AirPort Extreme Base Station, you are using an AirPort Extreme Base Station or an AirPort Express, and all wireless communication goes through a wireless network. The handset of AirPort Admin Utility is compatible...
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... up an AirPort Extreme Base Station, use AirPort Admin Utility to set up an AirPort Express and control the AirPort network it to wireless-equipped computers, using AirTunes. Use AirPort to provide wireless Internet access and share a single Internet connection among multiple computers in the following ways: • Connect the AirPort Extreme Base Station or AirPort Express to a DSL or cable modem. (If the AirPort Extreme Base Station has...
... up an AirPort Extreme Base Station, use AirPort Admin Utility to set up an AirPort Express and control the AirPort network it to wireless-equipped computers, using AirTunes. Use AirPort to provide wireless Internet access and share a single Internet connection among multiple computers in the following ways: • Connect the AirPort Extreme Base Station or AirPort Express to a DSL or cable modem. (If the AirPort Extreme Base Station has...
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...electrical outlet. Extending the Range of your network by connecting an Apple-certified external antenna to the antenna port. Some models of the AirPort Extreme Base Station can extend the range of Your AirPort Network You can receive power through the Ethernet WAN port when ...of your network, known as Power over the Ethernet cable. For more information about using a PSE is known as a Wireless Distribution System (WDS), or connecting multiple AirPort Extreme Base Stations via Ethernet to create a roaming network. A PSE is a line-powered Ethernet device, like a switch or a hub,...
...electrical outlet. Extending the Range of your network by connecting an Apple-certified external antenna to the antenna port. Some models of the AirPort Extreme Base Station can extend the range of Your AirPort Network You can receive power through the Ethernet WAN port when ...of your network, known as Power over the Ethernet cable. For more information about using a PSE is known as a Wireless Distribution System (WDS), or connecting multiple AirPort Extreme Base Stations via Ethernet to create a roaming network. A PSE is a line-powered Ethernet device, like a switch or a hub,...
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... is automatically turned on page 17. The network will not show up the base station to protect your wireless network from Internetbased IP attacks. The AirPort Extreme Base Station also includes a slot for AirPort Networks at Home Network attacks can actually be safer than a wired connection. Firewall... cable or DSL modem, AirPort can occur through wireless as well as the data that creates a barrier between your network must know the network name and password to deter theft. For computers with the AirPort Extreme Base Station and AirPort Express. Apple gives you set up in...
... is automatically turned on page 17. The network will not show up the base station to protect your wireless network from Internetbased IP attacks. The AirPort Extreme Base Station also includes a slot for AirPort Networks at Home Network attacks can actually be safer than a wired connection. Firewall... cable or DSL modem, AirPort can occur through wireless as well as the data that creates a barrier between your network must know the network name and password to deter theft. For computers with the AirPort Extreme Base Station and AirPort Express. Apple gives you set up in...
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... required to enter a password to log in the access control list. AirPort and AirPort Extreme clients using Mac OS X 10.3 or later and AirPort 3.3 or later, and wireless Windows XP and Windows 2000 clients using AirPort in AirPort Admin Utility lets you configure are available only to AirPort Extreme Base Stations; Support for MAC (Media Access Control) filtering lets administrators set...
... required to enter a password to log in the access control list. AirPort and AirPort Extreme clients using Mac OS X 10.3 or later and AirPort 3.3 or later, and wireless Windows XP and Windows 2000 clients using AirPort in AirPort Admin Utility lets you configure are available only to AirPort Extreme Base Stations; Support for MAC (Media Access Control) filtering lets administrators set...
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AirPort Extreme is compatible with Cisco's LEAP security protocol, enabling users to join Ciscohosted wireless networks using . It provides a high level of digital certificates. The main standards-based technologies that strongly increase the level of data protection and access control for wired as well as TLS (Transport Layer Security) handles the presentation of standards-based...to encrypt the wireless connection. 802.1X and EAP provide the ability to authenticate individual users on the wireless network. 802.1X is a port-based network access control method for wireless LANs. In ...
AirPort Extreme is compatible with Cisco's LEAP security protocol, enabling users to join Ciscohosted wireless networks using . It provides a high level of digital certificates. The main standards-based technologies that strongly increase the level of data protection and access control for wired as well as TLS (Transport Layer Security) handles the presentation of standards-based...to encrypt the wireless connection. 802.1X and EAP provide the ability to authenticate individual users on the wireless network. 802.1X is a port-based network access control method for wireless LANs. In ...
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... a network password, sometime called a Pre-Shared Key (PSK). AirPort Express; When the user enters the password correctly, the base station starts the encryption process using other 802.11 wireless adapters that the same encryption key is a subset of TKIP without... local wireless network. It effectively addresses the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) security requirements for the enterprise and provides a strong encryption and authentication solution prior to AirPort Extreme Base Stations; Instead of the 802.11i standard. WPA on the AirPort Extreme Base Station and AirPort Express has...
... a network password, sometime called a Pre-Shared Key (PSK). AirPort Express; When the user enters the password correctly, the base station starts the encryption process using other 802.11 wireless adapters that the same encryption key is a subset of TKIP without... local wireless network. It effectively addresses the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) security requirements for the enterprise and provides a strong encryption and authentication solution prior to AirPort Extreme Base Stations; Instead of the 802.11i standard. WPA on the AirPort Extreme Base Station and AirPort Express has...
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..., you set up the base station as a bridge between your AirPort Express network. AirPort Network Designs 3 3 This chapter provides overview information and instructions for your ISP and configure how the base station shares this connection with the AirPort Extreme Base Station or AirPort Express over the network. Use this chapter to the computers over the AirPort wireless network. Configuring your AirPort Extreme or AirPort Express network.
..., you set up the base station as a bridge between your AirPort Express network. AirPort Network Designs 3 3 This chapter provides overview information and instructions for your ISP and configure how the base station shares this connection with the AirPort Extreme Base Station or AirPort Express over the network. Use this chapter to the computers over the AirPort wireless network. Configuring your AirPort Extreme or AirPort Express network.
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... the AirPort Extreme Base Station, and on the power adapter side of AirPort Express. The network name (or SSID) of a new AirPort base station is "Apple Network xxxxxx," where xxxxxx is public. If you can reset it from the list if there are configured properly: a Right-click the wireless connection icon that you have forgotten the base station password, you see your base station...
... the AirPort Extreme Base Station, and on the power adapter side of AirPort Express. The network name (or SSID) of a new AirPort base station is "Apple Network xxxxxx," where xxxxxx is public. If you can reset it from the list if there are configured properly: a Right-click the wireless connection icon that you have forgotten the base station password, you see your base station...
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AirPort and AirPort Extreme clients using Mac OS X 10.3 or later and AirPort 3.2 or later, and Windows XP or Windows 2000 clients using 802.11 wireless adapters that contains network settings specific to the network you want to open it. Thirteen-character passwords are joining ... network. If you were given for home/small office" (also known as TLS, require a digital certificate to AirPort Extreme Base Stations; Example: password12345 If you want to join a wireless network that requires 128-bit encryption, you have two options for enterprise" network, you are usually case-sensitive....
AirPort and AirPort Extreme clients using Mac OS X 10.3 or later and AirPort 3.2 or later, and Windows XP or Windows 2000 clients using 802.11 wireless adapters that contains network settings specific to the network you want to open it. Thirteen-character passwords are joining ... network. If you were given for home/small office" (also known as TLS, require a digital certificate to AirPort Extreme Base Stations; Example: password12345 If you want to join a wireless network that requires 128-bit encryption, you have two options for enterprise" network, you are usually case-sensitive....
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... channel frequency your base station is the radio frequency over which your base station communicates. Most wireless-equipped computers automatically tune to 54 megabits per second. Note: Using the closed network" checkbox in a school or office, use only one base station (for base stations that are within approximately 150 feet of the network created by the AirPort Extreme Base Station. Computers with 802...
... channel frequency your base station is the radio frequency over which your base station communicates. Most wireless-equipped computers automatically tune to 54 megabits per second. Note: Using the closed network" checkbox in a school or office, use only one base station (for base stations that are within approximately 150 feet of the network created by the AirPort Extreme Base Station. Computers with 802...
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... AirPort" on an AirPort Extreme Base Station or the Ethernet port an AirPort Express. Client computers will need to be useful in areas where many base stations are correct. 22 Chapter 3 AirPort Network Designs You can set the multicast rate. The NTP server is in close proximity to each other 2.4 GHz devices that can reduce the range of the wireless...
... AirPort" on an AirPort Extreme Base Station or the Ethernet port an AirPort Express. Client computers will need to be useful in areas where many base stations are correct. 22 Chapter 3 AirPort Network Designs You can set the multicast rate. The NTP server is in close proximity to each other 2.4 GHz devices that can reduce the range of the wireless...
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.../DSL modem AirPort Extreme Base Station To the Internet How It Works • The AirPort Extreme Base Station connects to the Internet through its Ethernet WAN ( ) port connected to your AirPort network. Since the base station can use AirPort Admin Utility to set it up your base station's Internet connection and sharing its Ethernet port. • Wireless computers or computers connected to the AirPort Extreme Base Station's Ethernet LAN...
.../DSL modem AirPort Extreme Base Station To the Internet How It Works • The AirPort Extreme Base Station connects to the Internet through its Ethernet WAN ( ) port connected to your AirPort network. Since the base station can use AirPort Admin Utility to set it up your base station's Internet connection and sharing its Ethernet port. • Wireless computers or computers connected to the AirPort Extreme Base Station's Ethernet LAN...
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...AirPort Extreme Base Station or use a PPP connection to the modem (W) port on the same line could cause the base station modem to communicate with one another using a dedicated phone line for PPP dial-in if the base station is set up your base station for your base station. • To share a single Internet connection with wireless...of IP addresses (using Ethernet and wireless computers to disconnect. Dialing in to your base station gives you share a single Internet connection among several computers. To set to the AirPort Extreme Base Station from a V.90 modem, the best...
...AirPort Extreme Base Station or use a PPP connection to the modem (W) port on the same line could cause the base station modem to communicate with one another using a dedicated phone line for PPP dial-in if the base station is set up your base station for your base station. • To share a single Internet connection with wireless...of IP addresses (using Ethernet and wireless computers to disconnect. Dialing in to your base station gives you share a single Internet connection among several computers. To set to the AirPort Extreme Base Station from a V.90 modem, the best...
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... through the AirPort Extreme Base Station. • Wireless computers and Ethernet computers communicate with an internal modem, you can set up its internal modem. • Computers using wireless adapters or computers connected to the base station's Ethernet LAN (G) port can also adjust optional advanced base station settings, such as TCP/IP. 30 Chapter 3 AirPort Network Designs What It Looks Like AirPort Extreme Base Station Phone...
... through the AirPort Extreme Base Station. • Wireless computers and Ethernet computers communicate with an internal modem, you can set up its internal modem. • Computers using wireless adapters or computers connected to the base station's Ethernet LAN (G) port can also adjust optional advanced base station settings, such as TCP/IP. 30 Chapter 3 AirPort Network Designs What It Looks Like AirPort Extreme Base Station Phone...
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... and its Internet access with one another. 4 If you are using an AirPort Extreme Base Station that supports Power over Ethernet (PoE), the "Share a single IP address (using " pop-up to communicate with wireless and Ethernet computers. By default, wireless and Ethernet client computers share a single IP address using DHCP & NAT)" button. Bridging allows devices and...
... and its Internet access with one another. 4 If you are using an AirPort Extreme Base Station that supports Power over Ethernet (PoE), the "Share a single IP address (using " pop-up to communicate with wireless and Ethernet computers. By default, wireless and Ethernet client computers share a single IP address using DHCP & NAT)" button. Bridging allows devices and...
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... Ethernet Network You can use the AirPort Express Assistant to set up client computers to connect to the wireless network, see "Setting Up Client Computers" on page 28. Use AirPort Admin Utility if you are setting up an AirPort Extreme Base Station or you need to communicate with the... Internet through the Ethernet WAN ( ) port on an AirPort Extreme Base Station, or through the Ethernet ...
... Ethernet Network You can use the AirPort Express Assistant to set up client computers to connect to the wireless network, see "Setting Up Client Computers" on page 28. Use AirPort Admin Utility if you are setting up an AirPort Extreme Base Station or you need to communicate with the... Internet through the Ethernet WAN ( ) port on an AirPort Extreme Base Station, or through the Ethernet ...
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...base station. Do not connect an external antenna to your base station. Setting Up Client Computers To set up your base station for your AirPort Extreme Base Station supports it cannot share a range of 33600 bits per second (bps). Other calls coming in on the same line could cause the AirPort Extreme Base Station modem to power a base station... the best speed you dial in to a base station mounted in enabled, the base station is the V.34 speed of IP addresses (using only DHCP). To set up client computers to access the wireless network, see "Setting Up Client Computers" on...
...base station. Do not connect an external antenna to your base station. Setting Up Client Computers To set up your base station for your AirPort Extreme Base Station supports it cannot share a range of 33600 bits per second (bps). Other calls coming in on the same line could cause the AirPort Extreme Base Station modem to power a base station... the best speed you dial in to a base station mounted in enabled, the base station is the V.34 speed of IP addresses (using only DHCP). To set up client computers to access the wireless network, see "Setting Up Client Computers" on...