wireless

WDS)">AirPort everywhere with Wireless Distribution System (WDS)

July 1, 2008 Life

I have been using Wire­less Dis­tri­b­u­tion Sys­tem (WDS) between Time Cap­sule (TC), Air­Port Extreme (AE) Base sta­tion, and Air­Port Express (AX) to extend my net­work all over my home. The Time Cap­sule is the main with the AE and AX as “sup­pli­cants”. The con­fig­u­ra­tion is such that it appears as one wire­less net­work with one […]

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Wireless Interference and Powerline

December 22, 2007 Opinion

How do you tell if other wire­less net­works are inter­fer­ing with yours? The clear­est signs are stut­ters and drops: file trans­fers or stream­ing down­loads halt and restart, or your net­work con­nec­tion peri­od­i­cally drops out alto­gether. My wire­less G net­work has become less use­ful now that almost every­one in my neigh­bor­hood is using wire­less as well. […]

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