Ask TUAW Video Edition: AirPort 101
Happy Tuesday everyone! Today I'm doing a beginners 101 class on how to set up your AirPort base station. My example shows an AirPort Extreme, but the basics can be used for both AirPort Express and a Time Capsule. We show you how to lock down your wireless and how to allow access from outside.
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Happy Tuesday everyone! Today I'm doing a beginners 101 class on how to set up your AirPort base station. My example shows an AirPort...
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Just getting a mac for the first time still have windows stuff at home that would be nice to get to. Is the port mapping thing available on all routers or or just airport extreme/express and can a mac control a PC this way?
May 17 2011 at 9:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyEdgar - most home routers have port mapping - but if your windows computer and Mac are in the same internal network you don't need port mapping to access them.
May 17 2011 at 9:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyGREAT TUTORIAL! Would like to see more detail on setting up my AP Express as a bridge (extension) of my existing AP Extreme. The wireless signal is weak on the other end of the house. Right now I ran an Ethernet cable from the AP Extreme to the AP Express. But can't I wirelessly connect the express and use it to extend the range of my Network?
May 17 2011 at 9:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyActually, all octets in the IP address can go up to 255.
May 17 2011 at 6:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyExcuse me for nagging, but a firewall is not a wall _on_ fire, but a wall _against_ fire (and yes, mostly made of brick). As described in this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_(construction) .
Btw were you to take a brick out of a wall on fire and reach your hand through, you'd get burned ;)
Now to a more vital point: mentioning port mapping this cast does go into a kind of advanced detail - in that light I think it would have been suitable to at least give a brief overview of the different configurations (types) of wireless networks available (different combinations of 802.11a/b/g/n on 2.4 and 5 GHz frequencies).
and on another note, the 4 in "IPv4" is in no way connected to there being 4 units of numbers when using the dot-decimal notation (an address may be written without dots at all, so as one unit of numbers representing a 32-bit entity).
The 4 is just a sequential version number - just as in the IPv6 two versions later (which by no means look like 255.255.255.255.255.255).
Boy - thanks for the correction. We were trying to make this as quick and short as possible. The reason we talked about the port forwarding instead of the wireless networks is just based on questions we've received (how do I connect to my home computer, etc).
May 17 2011 at 9:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAs a suggestion, and don't take this on the wrong way, we don't need to see your face trough the video, it distracts from the main reason of the tutorial, and maybe use some kind of text elements describing the actions.
Good tutorial.
Parel - thanks for your suggestion...we are still working out some production tricks to make the videos better.
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