About the status light on AirPort base stations. The LED status light on AirPort Time Capsule, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Express Base Station flashes (blinks).
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MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO—January 9, 2007—Apple® today introduced the new AirPort Extreme®, a simple and elegant wireless networking solution delivering up to five times the performance and twice the range of the previous AirPort Extreme. Based on 802.11n,* AirPort Extreme extends a wireless network to even more areas in a home or office and makes streaming digital content and transferring large files faster and easier. The new AirPort Extreme Base Station features a sleek, new design with connections for networked computers, printers and a USB hard drive to quickly and easily share files or back up valuable data and content.
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“The new Airport Extreme is the most powerful and easy to use Wi-Fi base station that we have ever made,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “With five times the performance and twice the range, now you can transfer bigger files faster and get access to the Internet and your favorite digital media from many areas in your house you couldn’t reach before.”
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Using MIMO (Multiple In Multiple Out) smart antennas and 802.11n technology, AirPort Extreme now delivers greater data throughput and extends the reach of wireless connectivity to more areas of the home, business or school. With the ability to operate in either the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz wireless frequencies, AirPort Extreme also reduces the possibility of interference from appliances and cordless phones that operate in the2.4 GHz frequency. AirPort Extreme is backward compatible with Macs and PCs using previous generation 802.11b/g wireless technologies.
The AirPort Extreme Base Station features a simple, new design that is just 6.5 inches square and 1.3 inches tall, and a built-in USB port allows users to print wirelessly to a USB printer or turn any external USB hard drive into a shared drive so they can share files or backup valuable data from multiple computers on a network. New AirPort Utility software included with every AirPort Extreme makes it very easy to set up a secure, wireless network for up to 50 simultaneous users within minutes. Users can also set security restrictions, including Internet access limits on their childrens’ computers.
Pricing & Availability
The new AirPort Extreme Base Station will be available in February through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $179 (US). Nearly all currently shipping Macs** support 802.11n when updated with 802.11n Enabler software, which ships with the AirPort Extreme Base Station.
*The AirPort Extreme Base Station is based on an IEEE 802.11n draft specification and is compatible with IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.11g. Achieving the fastest data rates requires that all users have an 802.11n-enabled computer. Actual performance will vary based on range, connection rate, site conditions, size of network and other factors.
**All Intel Core 2 Duo and Intel Xeon Macs except the entry 17-inch iMac® with 1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor support the 802.11n technology.
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Airport Extreme Card for 2009 Mac Pro TowerThis is an excellent product that works very well. I purchased it for my early 2009 Mac Pro Tower computer.
Installation takes some patience as the part is small and their are two tiny screws that secure it and two tiny antenna connectors that need to be attached to the card (see below). You will want a very small, magnetic Phillips screw driver for the screws. The instructions that came with the WiFi card are actually for a pre-2009 Mac Pro tower. The installation is basically the same, but the location of the card is different and in the 2009 Mac pro installing it requires removal of the CPU tray (easy to do). There's a video on YouTube that shows you how to do it. Also, there are 2 antenna wires that need to be connected to the card.
This is more easily done if you have a forceps (tweezers) since the connectors are very small. When you go to do this, you will find that there are 3 wires numbered 1, 2, and 3 that are available.
Wires 1 goes to the J1 connector on the card. Wire 2 goes to the J2 connector on the card. Wire 3 is not used, it's for Bluetooth. When you connect the antenna wires to the card you will first want to bend the wire with the forceps so that the connector on the wire lines up with the connector on the card. Next, using the forceps, position the connector on the wire directly over the one on the card and push down on the connector with your thumb until it snaps in place.
You may have to rock it back and forth with your thumb to do this. It took me a few tries, but it eventually snapped in place. Hope this helps the next person who has to do this installation.
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