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FEBRUARY 8, 2008
Notes on a Dual-Mode Airport Extreme Network
Summary: These are followup notes from my attempts to setup a dual-mode Airport Extreme Network. This started at the Apple Discussion Forum for Airport Extreme but since forums have a way of disappearing over time, I wanted to preserve this somewhere else.
The Problem
I have an AppleTV which is 802.11n-capable. It gets media from my iMac which is 802.11n-capable.
Unfortunately I have these other non-802.11n-capable devices: iPhone, MacBook, and a Powerbook. [Ed: just to clarify, all current MacBooks are 802.11n-capable, but when I wrote this I was using a 1st generation MacBook which was neither capable nor upgradable.]
Which means I was getting very little of the 802.11n-goodness. When I was growing up, ‘Does Not Work Up To H”