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148 Part III: Installing a <strong>Wireless</strong> Network Figure 8-1: Going 802.11n Apple style. Figure 8-2: The AirPort Express is a jack of all trades. This $99 device can fulfill a bunch of different roles in your wireless life, including the following: � A full-fledged AP and router: The AirPort Express can do pretty much everything any full-size AP can do — you can build your entire wireless LAN around an AirPort Express.
� A travel router: A cool new category of APs are those designed for use on the road — travel routers that you can pack up and plug into any broadband access (like that available in most hotels) and provide yourself with an instant Wi-Fi hot spot. The small size of the AirPort Express lets you stick it in your laptop bag and bring it wherever you go. Pat wrote this chapter in a hotel room in Vegas using his AirPort Express — a pretty sad commentary on his after-hours life these days! � A WDS repeater: The Apple AirPort system supports the WDS (wireless distribution system) standard, which allows you to extend your network throughout even a huge house by having your wireless signals hop from AP to AP until they reach your distant clients. � A USB print server: You can plug a USB printer into the AirPort Express and get printer access from the entire network. � An AirTunes player: Perhaps our favorite feature of the AirPort Express is its support for AirTunes. AirTunes is the Apple software system that lets you listen to the music in your iTunes collection (and from your iPod) throughout your entire network. The AirPort Express has analog and digital audio connectors that you plug into a stereo or home theater. Although Apple’s fancy AppleTV is an even better way of doing this, it costs four times as much as the AirPort Express, so if your focus is on music more than TV, you might consider choosing the AirPort Express. Like the AirPort Extreme base station, the AirPort Express uses the 802.11g standard and can work with any type of Wi-Fi certified 802.11g or 802.11b client. We haven’t heard anything about this from Apple, but we certainly expect that Apple will come out with an 802.11n version of the AirPort Express in the notso-distant future. If you are setting up a new network and don’t need a router to fill the roles that the AirPort Express fills right away, you might want to hold off on the purchase of the device for a while. Using AirPort with OS X Macs Apple makes it exceptionally easy to configure an AirPort Extreme base station or an AirPort Express. All Mac OS X computers that are capable of working with an AirPort system have two bits of software installed in the Utilities folder (found in your Applications folder): � AirPort Setup Assistant � AirPort Admin Utility Chapter 8: Setting Up a <strong>Wireless</strong> Mac Network 149
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Authors’ Acknowledgments Danny wa
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Publisher’s Acknowledgments We’
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Table of Contents Introduction.....
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Table of Contents Operational Featu
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Table of Contents Chapter 12: Netwo
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Table of Contents Chapter 20: Top T
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Introduction Welcome to Wireless Ho
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and familiarizes you with wireless
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the lingo, move on to the chapters
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Part I Wireless Networking Fundamen
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In This Chapter Chapter 1 Introduci
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Chapter 1: Introducing Wireless Hom
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Figure 2-1: It’s all in the stars
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Figure 2-2: A wireless network adap
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Figure 2-5: A wireless PCI adapter.
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Figure 2-6: A standalone access poi
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Figure 3-1: Piconets have one maste
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Part II Making Plans
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In This Chapter Chapter 4 Planning
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As you plan out your network and co
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� 802.11b is an older standard th
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Chapter 4: Planning a Wireless Home
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You may want to consider reading Ch
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Figure 4-3: A wireless home network
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Budgeting for Your Wireless Network
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Planning Security Chapter 4: Planni
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In This Chapter Chapter 5 Choosing
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Most buyers of the Sonos also buy a
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Chapter 13 Using Your Wireless Netw
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Chapter 13: Using Your Wireless Net
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Chapter 14: Other Cool Things You C
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more stations. And the digital tran
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WPA2. While we prefer WPA2, WPA is
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Metro Wi-Fi networks can be free, s
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Chapter 17: Ten FAQs about Wireless
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looks at new and emerging technolog
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Other Cool Sites We can’t list he
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using VoIP phone with, 247, 248 Way
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security (of network and devices).
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