apple has WOW'D me again

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― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

If it were like 50% of the price... still amazing... itunes tuner + airport 2 ethernet

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

This is nutty cuckoo and I want it.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

it's still cheaper than the regular base station, yet has more features.

$50 more than the linksys wrt54g. WORRRRTH IT.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i want it need it now now now

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

IS IT AN ACTUAL BASE STATION OR JUST A NODE????????????????

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.tprthai.net/comps/apple3.jpg

― ddb (ddb), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a base station, or a node, take your pick billiams

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

It is a base station then.

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

LET IT BE

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there actually a difference?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Airport will not work between two computers without something providing base station capability. This does that. I think!

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes but don't most nodes do that? I dunno, I've never actually bought one, but last time I went looking for "wireless solutions" it seemed that everything I looked at basically took an ethernet cable and turned it into a wireless signal.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

base station - routing functionality and network address translation
node - not so

― TOMBOT, Monday, 7 June 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

TOMBOT, do you mean IP routing to the attached ethernet cable which I know apple's base stations do or do you mean airport traffic routing between nodes.

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm kind of just assuming I know what you're using "base station" to mean. The "base station" is just a wireless IP router. I'm assuming by "node" you mean something that doesn't provide IP routing capabilities. I don't think Apple even sells anything like that, since any apple machine with an 802.11 card can create its own network.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 7 June 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, that's what I needed to know.

Some wireless schemes require something like a base station to coordinate access to the aether so that machines don't talk over each other. Apparently airport doesn't

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

jon, it may just be a node. i'm confused now. i think you may need an existing wireless access point according to the footnotes on that page.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

cutty, I read them and it looked to me like it could EXTEND the reach of a network as such

client a (or interweb) --- base station --- new base station -- client b

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Any base station can also function as a repeater to extend the range.

802.11 solves the "hidden node" problem with some funky tags in the MAC layer.

If you don't have a regular airport base station you can just select "create network" in your airport menu on your laptop or whatever and it does the same thing.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 7 June 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

This thing will do IP routing, cutty. It's a base station.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 7 June 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

That's not a moon, it's a base station.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I kiss thee, Ned Raggett!!!!!

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

EW GIRL GERMS

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i kiss thee, steve jobs

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

This looks good, but I guess I need a big house before it's really any use to me.

Also, it's probably illegal in the UK or something.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

if i have an existing wireless network, can i run the wireless networking for this thing OFF of that, or do i still need a physical ethernet connection?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

you can!

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa that was like the meanest thing Ned has ever said to an ILXor.

― Allyzay, Monday, 7 June 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Had to happen sometime!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

doesn't my tivo already do this?

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I have the lust.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

quite cheap for what it does. digital AND analogue ouput too, sort of interesting.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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