AEBS Dual-BandNot crap anymore

[klmckenzie03]

Ohhh, OK. I think I understand now. I have an iMac at home as well as an AEBS with a USB disk. You're saying that if I were on a Mac at a remote location and had everything configured correctly I would have the option to go "Back To" both my iMac and AEBS seperately? If this is the case I can see some benefit in this. For instance if I were going to be away from home for an extended period of time and wanted to shut my iMac off. I suppose this might give me another reason to purchase a laptop!

I still think that it would be more useful if we could somehow access our USB disk through the MobileMe web interface. This way if your using a Windows PC at work, like me, you could still access all your files from a remote computer without having to worry about throwing them up into your iDisk.

 

[alphaod]

Ohhh, OK. I think I understand now. I have an iMac at home as well as an AEBS with a USB disk. You're saying that if I were on a Mac at a remote location and had everything configured correctly I would have the option to go "Back To" both my iMac and AEBS seperately? If this is the case I can see some benefit in this. For instance if I were going to be away from home for an extended period of time and wanted to shut my iMac off. I suppose this might give me another reason to purchase a laptop!

Who knows Apple may let you access files through you iPod/iPhone in the future.

And I think this is just an other selling point for Apple to get people to sign up for MobileMe.

 

[clayj]

Your ISP allows port 25? That's cool. You could port forward 25 all you want around here, but nothing would ever come in because they block it.

The good news is that the 7.4.1 firmware fixed the port 25 issue in the new AEBS. So I agree that now it is no longer crap.

It's too bad Apple let these things go out the door with such a serious bug in them. I don't care if only 1% of AEBS users do port mapping for port 25; SMTP is a basic protocol and it should have been more thoroughly tested first.

 

[DaveTheGrey]

is there an easy way to check which band my mbp uses?

 

[AGSHender]

I had a separate thread asking this question, but I wanted to ask again of someone who has the unit and has played around with it--can you simultaneously use the dual-band radios (for separate 802.11 b/g and 802.11n) AND use the guest networking feature?

 

[DaveTheGrey]

besides that my still would like to know how I can check which band my mbp uses I also would like to know how your macrumors users have configed your aebs!

My Network: 3 Macs, all n capable
2 iPhones

Edit:
Nevermind, I fixed it - "automatic" made the difference
Networkutilities showed an speed increase from 54mbit/s to 130mbit/s
finally N and all iphones are online.

 

[DanielCalladine]

Does anyone know if both networks (N & G) can be set to 2.4Ghz, or does the N have to be set to 5Ghz?

(My girlfriends Dell can't see N at 5 Ghz)

Thanks, Daniel

 

[paragonj]

Does anyone know if both networks (N & G) can be set to 2.4Ghz, or does the N have to be set to 5Ghz?

(My girlfriends Dell can't see N at 5 Ghz)

Thanks, Daniel

Yes, both N & G can run at 2.4GHz, but it's not two networks. It's only one, so if you have a G device running, everyones speed will drop.

 

[NATO]

The Airport Extreme Base Station gives the option to create a seperate SSID for the 5GHz network, are there any advantages in doing so?

 

[Sesshi]

Does it actually have a firewall now?

 

[alphaod]

Does it actually have a firewall now?

If it's there, there is no option to tweak it.

 

[Sesshi]

Guess not in that case. I want just one box for the new cable modem wireless router so the AEBS is probably still not an option. NAT only on a router these days just smacks of complacency.

 

[OngL]

I guess uPnP support for windows devices is still missing either... I liked my Gigabit AEBS, it's rock solid but I felt going back to primitive age by definding port forwarding by hand.

 

[emt1]

I guess uPnP support for windows devices is still missing either... I liked my Gigabit AEBS, it's rock solid but I felt going back to primitive age by definding port forwarding by hand.

"NAT Port Mapping Protocol (NAT-PMP) is an Internet Engineering Task Force Internet Draft, an alternative to the more common Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol implemented in many NAT routers. NAT-PMP allows a computer in a private network (behind a NAT router) to automatically configure the router to allow clients outside the private network to contact this computer."

 

[alphaod]

Guess not in that case. I want just one box for the new cable modem wireless router so the AEBS is probably still not an option. NAT only on a router these days just smacks of complacency.

Well I think Apple is lazy and they expect everyone to be using Macs and therefore they believe their software firewalls are adequate.

If you're looking for a really robust firewall and router, I wouldn't even consider the AEBS (if it had a firewall), I'd get something like a Netgear Dual-band N or something.

 

[yippy]

No WEP

I have another complaint about the AEBS. I couldn't find WEP anywhere and I have a device that does not support WPA. This means I have to run a second router just for that device.

I haven't tried the options thing on the security drop down. So if someone could and provide a screenshot that would be great (can't access my AEBS from work). If it does actually have the ability to do WEP I might not regret the purchase.

 

[emt1]

I have another complaint about the AEBS. I couldn't find WEP anywhere and I have a device that does not support WPA. This means I have to run a second router just for that device.

I haven't tried the options thing on the security drop down. So if someone could and provide a screenshot that would be great (can't access my AEBS from work). If it does actually have the ability to do WEP I might not regret the purchase.

The 802.11n standard doesn't allow WEP. Maybe you could set the AEBS to have a 802.11g only network and use WEP on that one

 

[yippy]

What I want is a WEP b/g network and a WPA2 n network. I was hopping to get that from the one box but maybe I can't.

I guess I'll have to deal with two routers until I can replace my old WEP only device.

 

[emt1]

What I want is a WEP b/g network and a WPA2 n network. I was hopping to get that from the one box but maybe I can't.

I guess I'll have to deal with two routers until I can replace my old WEP only device.

Can you not set it to 802.11b/g?

 

[alphaod]

I have another complaint about the AEBS. I couldn't find WEP anywhere and I have a device that does not support WPA. This means I have to run a second router just for that device.

I haven't tried the options thing on the security drop down. So if someone could and provide a screenshot that would be great (can't access my AEBS from work). If it does actually have the ability to do WEP I might not regret the purchase.

You can hold the Option key when you select the security options and it will show up.

Or you could just have no security and just use MAC Address filtering.

 

[belvdr]

Or you could just have no security and just use MAC Address filtering.

Which is, unfortunately, no security at all. It isn't even worth the bother at that point.

 

[emt1]

Which is, unfortunately, no security at all. It isn't even worth the bother at that point.

It should prevent your dumb neighbors from getting on your network and downloading something illegal, which you would get in trouble for.

 

[belvdr]

Could be, but MAC addresses are easy to sniff and spoof.

Also, the legal ramifications may not be as you state. I read awhile ago (never knew what came of it), that if your router is wide open, it means you didn't try to protect it, so you can't be held liable for what happens.

Kinda dumb, I know. It's similar to salting your sidewalk. If you salt it, and then someone fell, you may be held liable for injuries, whereas if you didn't do anything, it was just the weather.

No wonder legal issues are so weird.

 

[Itogator]

Ahh that it is a nice suite of options. I wish there was one for 802.11n only (5GHz) and 802.11g/n (2.4GHz) (keep 802.11a off the 5GHz portion and keep 802.11b off the 2.4GHz portion) but I'm just being nitpicky. Once I get the new TC I will probably put it on 802.11n only (5GHz) - 802.11b/g/n.

So, what would be the correct setting for me? This is what I am running off of my aebs: 1 MacBook direct wired, 1 pc direct wired, 1 printer hooked up via USB, 2 pc laptops using wireless, 1 apple tv wireless and an iphone.