Go Wireless With Your Apple!
54 Mbps AirPort Extreme, based on the cutting-edge IEEE 802.11g wireless draft specification, delivers nearly five times the bandwidth of the 802.11b standard. The new AirPort Extreme Base Station can serve up to 50 Mac and Windows users simultaneously. It comes with everything from wireless printing to a USB or Ethernet printer to power tools for administrators, and starts at $199.
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54Mbps - nearly 5x faster
The turbocharged new technology lets you connect to the Internet without wires, additional phone lines or complicated networking hardware. AirPort Extreme consists of two components: the AirPort Extreme Card and the AirPort Extreme Base Station. Together, they represent the future of wireless networking. You'll see how fast this technology really is when you use AirPort Extreme to network AirPort Extreme-enabled computers in your home or office. In a video production studio, for instance, users can transfer large digital video files between computers at astonishing speeds. Do the math: the fastest broadband connections typically achieve speeds up to 1.5Mbps. AirPort Extreme, on the other hand, lets you share files with other AirPort Extreme users on your network at speeds of up to 54Mbps!
Widen Your Range
AirPort Extreme lets you use wireless bridging to widen your range beyond the standard 150-foot coverage. Bridging, which allows one AirPort Extreme Base Station to connect to another AirPort Extreme Base Station, eliminates the need to run expensive cables to extend a network. Previously, all AirPort Base Stations required a physical connection to the Internet. With wireless bridging, two or more AirPort Extreme Base Stations can be connected wirelessly, effectively increasing the range of your network. The $249 AirPort Extreme Base Station also features an external antenna connector for extending your wireless connectivity beyond the 150-foot range of your built-in internal antennas (you can choose to connect either a directional or an omnidirectional antenna).
Extremely Easy To Set Up
The AirPort Setup Assistant does most of the work for you, setting up your network, transferring the active Internet settings from your computer to the AirPort Extreme Base Station, and configuring your computer to access the AirPort Extreme network created by the base station. Once you have plugged in the base station and the middle status light glows white, open Setup Assistant and follow the instructions on your screen. Total elapsed time? About 15 minutes, tops.
This version ships WITH the Antenae Port.