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January 27, 2007

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Get yer AirPort Extreme manuals, hot off the presses

Posted Jan. 27, ’07, 8:48 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Geekery

AirPort Admin UtilityMan, the more I hear about the new AirPort Extreme, the more I kind of want one, despite the fact that I already have two routers in my house, both venerable Linksys WRT54Gs that I picked up last year for around $50 each. I’m having a hard time reconciling the $179 pricetag of an Extreme when I could use that money to buy something else: $200 would get my MacBook’s RAM upgraded to 2GB. Then, of course, there’s the always good food-and-bills option as well.

The other day, Apple released a couple of new manuals on the new Extreme: the setup guide (PDF link) and also a document called Designing AirPort Extreme 802.11n Networks (PDF link). These guides give us our first shots of some the software that goes along with the new base station, including the new AirPort Admin Utility. Sadly, one feature not discussed in detail is the AirPort Disk functionality.

I was super-excited to see that the AirPort Extreme supports bridging. I have a bridged setup in my house at the moment, using one of my WRT54Gs with hacked firmware, but replacing that with an AirPort Extreme would also give me the sweet, sweet option of attaching my 400GB USB drive there to use as a shared backup.

Those hoping to pop their home directories onto the network should be advised that Apple doesn’t recommend this; nor does AirPort Disk support removable media drives.

[via TUAW and MacFixIt]


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