At time of writing the Airport Utility 6.3.2 (6.3.1 on Mac OS 10.8.5 Mountain Lion) is the latest version of the main administration tool that enables Mac users to communicate with their Apple wireless access points and routers. The Airport Utility has traditionally been located in the /Applications/Utility/ folder across each Mac OS X release. […]Read More
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Buried within your Mac OS Mountain Lion lies the ability to diagnose your Wi-Fi which can help you make critical decisions on setup or assist in detecting Wi-Fi efficiency or issues. Introducing, Mac’s Wireless Diagnostic application. To launch the Wireless Diagnostic application in Mac OS Mountain Lion: hold down the Option key whilst clicking the […]Read More
Its been a long time coming but finally, somebody has made a USB WiFi adapter that works with Mac and that’s affordable to the masses! The Planex GW-US54Mini2W is an ace product for those of us with Macs that have Airport or Airport Extreme which no longer function. With the increasing difficulty in sourcing affordable […]Read More
Apple silently introduced the 802.11n WiFi compliant hardware in their product line since the introduction of Intel Core 2 Duo processors. What was lacking was a means to exploit this new WiFi hardware but Apple has since officially announced the existence of the 802.11n hardware and is offering an Airport Extreme 802.11n Enabler software for a nominal fee of USD$1.99 at […]Read More
Its relatively, ‘easy as pie’ to print from a Mac to a printer attached to an Airport Extreme base station but how do we do it from a Windows PC? Well, there are some additional steps and a download to commit to but after that, it comes down to being as ‘easy as pie’ again. […]Read More
Since the latest Mac OS X 10.4.8 updates, some Macs have been affected with a strange malady. Unlike before, the Macs suffer an inability to automatically re-connect to preferred WiFi networks that have already been saved in the system’s WiFi list. This has been commonly reported to occur whenever the Mac is waking up from […]Read More
Apple has always been on the frontier of consumer electronics. Being one of the first to introduce IEEE 802.11g WiFi protocol in their consumer electronics line. Or popularly known as the Airport Extreme form factor, which represented a major advancement in its day, boasting a 54Mbps transfer rate over the earlier IEEE 802.11b standard, or Airportform factor, which […]Read More
The first Airport base station (ABS) introduced by Apple came out of Cupertino around July 1999, with a time limited exclusive agreement between Apple and Lucent Technologies (the proponent that powers much of Apple’s WiFi technologies). The 802.11b spec, Airport (Graphite) had a short run that only lasted till November 2001; but it still remains the most inexpensive ABS […]Read More
Thanks to the guys at Spintriplet.com Mac OS X Tiger users now have, as touted, the most advanced wireless networking widget, currently available at press time. Unlike generic wireless networking widgets, Air Traffic Controller brings the following features to your Dashboard: Connect to any type of network. Sort networks by any feature. Check for AirTrafficControl updates. Use the […]Read More
When AirTunes was first rolled out together with Apple’s Airport Express, we could choose to play our music from iTunes. Either on our Macs or over WiFi to remote speakers hard wired to our Airport Express base stations. Once again… Apple has done one better. Giving you one more reason to buy more than a single Airport Express […]Read More
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