802.11 Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Can having a Quicky boost your Wi-Fi range?

by Steven Sande (Jun 29th, 2009)

Get your mind out of the gutter! I'm talking about the Quicky Jr II USB wireless signal booster, which is a little USB dongle / antenna that plugs into a USB port on any Mac that is running Mac OS X 10.4 or newer. This little device, from QuickerTek, purports to let you wander up to three times the ...

Mysterious Airport dropouts solved?

by Dave Caolo (Feb 24th, 2008)

Tell me if this scenario sounds familiar. You're happily using your Mac (naturally), surfing the net or shopping the iTunes Store, when your WiFi signal suddenly drops. Your Mac sees the Airport Basestation, but it's not letting you out. Only restarting the basestation itself will renew the ...

Rumors: Apple's 802.11n enabler for $5?

by Erica Sadun (Jan 16th, 2007)

MacFixit reports that Apple plans to offer its 802.11n enabler for a $5 fee. It will enable 802.11n on Intel Core 2 Duo iMacs (except 17-inch, 1.83GHz iMac), Intel Core 2 Duo MacBooks, Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros, and Mac Pros with the AirPort Extreme card option. They will also bundle the ...

Mac-Friendly Third-Party Routers

by Mat Lu (Jan 9th, 2007)

While many of us would probably like to have an official Apple Airport Extreme Base Station, it seems rather overpriced to me. Given that you can pick up a router on sale at Best Buy for $40, it can be a bit hard to swallow Apple's $199 price tag. While it's true that the Airport Extreme has a lot ...

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