About the airportextreme, About the airport extreme – Apple AirPort Extreme 802.11n (4th Generation) User Manual
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Chapter 1
Getting Started
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Create a guest network with or without password protection, to provide Internet-
only access to wireless devices, such as computers, iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple TV.
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Connect your AirPort Extreme to your Ethernet network. Wireless-equipped
Macintosh computers, Windows XP, or Windows Vista computers can then have
access to an entire network without being connected by a cable.
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Connect a supported USB device, such as a printer or a scanner, to your
AirPort Extreme. All of the compatible computers on the AirPort network, both
wireless and wired, can access the device.
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Connect a USB hard disk to your AirPort Extreme. All of the compatible computers
on the AirPort network, both wireless and wired, can access the information on the
hard disk.
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Connect a USB hub to your AirPort Extreme, and then connect multiple USB devices,
such as printers or hard disks. All of the computers on the network have access to
those devices.
Important:
Install AirPort Utility from the CD that came with your simultaneous
dual-band AirPort Extreme Base Station, or download it using Software Update, and
use it to set up your base station. Previous versions of AirPort Setup Assistant and
AirPort Admin Utility are not compatible with this base station.
About the AirPort Extreme
The AirPort Extreme has five ports, located on the back:
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One 10/100/1000Base-T Gigabit Ethernet Wide Area Network (WAN) port (<
) for
connecting a DSL or cable modem, or for connecting to an existing Ethernet network