Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station (Gigabit) MB053LL/A Simultaneous dual-band support For Higher Speeds and Greater Range
Apple Airport Extreme Base Sation
If you demand a higher speeds and greater range in building a wireless network at home, or at the office, or at school, you need a powerful wireless base station. The AirPort Extreme Base Station delivers on both fronts and offers superfast wireless network access throughout just about any home, office, or classroom. Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station is based on draft 2.0 802.11n standards, the fastest wireless standards and the next generation of the wireless network available at the market today.
Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station is a simultaneous dual-band wireless network, 2,4 GHz and 5 GHz. You can browse the internet, make internet phone including iPhone, iPod touch, Skype phone, and other wireless home appliances using 2.4 GHz radio band, while for video or gaming and other latest 802.11n-based Mac computers and Apple TV you can use 5 GHz radio band. This means all your Wi-Fi devices get the fastest possible wireless performance and the best possible range.
Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station is powered by intelligent MIMO (Multiple-in-multiple-output) technology to transmit multiple data streams simultaneously. This will allow you deliver data transfer speeds up to five times those of previous-generation 802.11g wireless networks while achieving up to twice the range.
The AirPort Extreme base station is also Wi-Fi Certified to work with the 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g wireless standard which means the systems you’re already using will work seamlessly with the new base station, such as the wireless dual-band USB adapters from Linksys or wireless game adapters.
How to connect
Apple Airport Extreme Base Station - Diagram
To share the broadband internet connection to the computers in the network, connect the Gigabit WAN port of this Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station to the DSL or Cable modem. This base station also supports Gigabit Switch you can connect up to 3 computers with Gigabit enabled NIC adapters, or any other fast Ethernet adapters for wired connection.
Up to 50 people can all share the same Internet connection, exchange files using the file-sharing capability built into Mac OS X or Windows, access local and remote file servers, annihilate the competition in multiplayer games – anything a typical network user can do, plus a number of things that are decidedly not typical, such as wireless storage and printing. Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station also supports USB port you can use for printer to share to the network, or connect it to the USB drive to share.
Share the Internet securely with guest networking
Now it’s easier than ever to allow guests to use your Internet connection without sharing your password or giving them access to the rest of your network. Simply enable the new guest networking feature using the AirPort Utility application and create a separate Wi-Fi network just for your friends. You can set up this guest network with a different password or with none at all. Your primary network — including your printer, attached drives, or other devices — remains secure.
This Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station supports dual-firewall features (NAT & SPI) to protect your private network from the internet threats. Network Address Translation (NAT) will hide your private network from the public network – the internet, while Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) will examine the traffic more precise than normal to detect any hacker pattern. If you frequently go for business with the laptop with you, you can connect to your private network by using tunneling (VPN) via public network (the internet).
For clients connection this modem router supports the latest wireless security standards WPA/WPA2 up to 128-bit to help shield wireless connections providing maximum security. For legacy clients, WEP encryption is also supported.
This Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station supports the DHCP server that is enabled by default. So if you do not have much knowledge about DHCP server, just leave the factory default that will allow the modem router to supply the IP address and DNS automatically to the computers in the network.
Before setting up the wireless environment, it’s a good idea to consider the wireless installation guidelines and make sure following the security installation check list. Always connect to the wireless network with the security encryption and assure the computers are protected with the anti-virus software.
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