I bought one of dem new Apple router thingies - Page 2

Ken Chan · 08-09-2007, 03:11 PM

If you ever want to copy files from another Mac, you can boot that computer in FireWire Target Disk Mode by holding down the T key, turning that Mac into a very expensive FireWire hard disk enclosure. FireWire 400 and hard disk sustained transfer rates are roughly in the same ballpark; gigabit won't be twice as fast in most cases.

sethgardner · 08-09-2007, 03:13 PM

I'm jealous, b/c I have the previous one without gigabit ethernet. Arrrghh!

Ronald Epstein · 08-11-2007, 11:15 AM

Got my gigabit router yesterday.

No difference in packaging -- not even the picture specs on the
back of the box (where they show a photo and point out features).

You have to look at the new sticker they slapped on the back of
the box that indicates the one gigabit WAN and four gigabit connections.

Daryl L · 08-11-2007, 12:23 PM

I can see the gigabit ports being a benefit comp-to-comp or airport/hdd-to-comp but wouldn't the cable/dsl modem be a limiting factor for internet speeds, or are they capable of speeds over 10/100Mbps?

Andrew Pratt · 08-11-2007, 04:40 PM

No the only time it'll matter is on the internal network when two computers are physically connected together.

Daryl L · 08-12-2007, 02:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andrew Pratt

No the only time it'll matter is on the internal network when two computers are physically connected together.

Thx Andrew, that's what I figured.

JeremyErwin · 08-16-2007, 10:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ronald Epstein

Got my gigabit router yesterday.

No difference in packaging -- not even the picture specs on the
back of the box (where they show a photo and point out features).

You have to look at the new sticker they slapped on the back of
the box that indicates the one gigabit WAN and four gigabit connections.

Lucky you. My housemate handed me a "Airport Extreme" yesterday to install. I tried connecting at gigabit speed. No luck. (Of course, I have a DSL modem, so it would appear to define "superfluous".)

My father, who's paid to be paranoid about these sorts of things, says to use WPA2 for the encryption.

Ronald Epstein · 08-16-2007, 10:48 AM

I may be having a possible problem with my airport extreme
communicating with my Macbook Pro.

I have a Yahoo widget on my desktop that measures WiFi strength
and I get a full, steady signal.

However, on my airport indicator along the top toolbar of my
MacBook it is constantly fluxuating as far as signal strength
going from full all the way down to 1 bar then back to full. Does
this constantly.

It looks like that for some reason my laptop is not locking onto
the signal well.

Ted Todorov · 08-16-2007, 02:47 PM

Ron, have you tried checking "Interface Robustness" in the AirPort pulldown menu?

Ronald Epstein · 08-16-2007, 03:48 PM

No, Ted, I have seen that option but had no idea what it did.

What does it do?