Archive for the ‘Airport Extreme’ Category
UPDATED: Apple refuses to support Airport Extreme USB Time Machine back-up feature
If you have an Airport Extreme and you’re thinking of using it along with an external USB drive as your primary Time Machine back-up – you may want to think again. Over at TidBITS there is an article confirming that Apple is officially not supporting the “feature” and even speculation that the feature itself [...]
Airport Extreme update adds USB Hard Drive back-up function
Yesterday’s Time Machine/Airport update finally activated a feature that just about everyone has been waiting for. You can now attach a USB external hard drive to your Airport Extreme and back up your files wirelessely from any Mac on the network. Essentially, it makes your Airport Extreme and an external USB drive into [...]
Airport Extreme – Can you get this thing working? Because I can’t…
So this weekend, I decided to take the plunge into the world of 802.11n. My current wi-fi router has been acting up, so I decided it was time to get a new one – and I might as well go all Apple – so I got an Airport Extreme.
And it didn’t work.
That’s right, I [...]
Apple Releases 802.11n Update
Apple released the much discussed 802.11n software update today in the Apple store for the price of $1.99 with no fanfare. You may recall that the price was original rumored to be $4.99, but when Apple made the official announcement it was at the reduced cost of $1.99 after lots of grumbling within the Apple [...]
Apple Releases 802.11n Update for FREE- OR NOT!
Notebook Review is reporting that Apple has released firmware update 2007-001 that enables 802.11n for free. Originally it was rumored that this was going to cost $4.99…then $1.99…and now it looks like we’re getting it for the price we should have gotten it for in the first place…FREE.
The direct link to the update is [...]
802.11n Upgrade for Intel Macs to cost $1.99
Earlier reports that shot around the web this week suggested that Apple was going to charge customers with new Intel based Macs $4.99 to enable the 802.11n capability in the Wi-Fi chips found in systems…but now Apple has officially confirmed the charge, and the price for it is $1.99.
“The nominal distribution fee for the 802.11n [...]
