Sick of the dropouts
Well I guess Apple got their way, after hoping that that my WiFi stability troubles would go away with the latest OS X update, and then realizing that they didn't - I am at the point of being so sick of the dropouts I'm experiencing (to my network) with my macbook that I'm willing to shell out the $$ to buy an Apple AP; specifically the airport extreme. To be fair, I'm not convinced this is actually a problem with my macbook not playing nicely with my AP, but more thinking it's a problem with my POS access point. I've used the macbook in a bunch of different locations now, with different APs and I only get the dropouts occuring at home so... Anyways, placed the order today for this new unit and I'm looking forward to getting it. It'll play nicely with my macbook and iPhone and I plan to plug a USB hub into it and connect my printer and external HDD to it. That way I should be able to print, even if the iMac is asleep, and I'll have a backup solution for my macbook which I'm currently missing. Fantastic! The only thing I'll be missing now is the AppleTV, but that should come within a few months I think. :)
Dude, you'd be proud of me. I just added an Airport Express to my network, but I'm using it as a WDS repeater. So it talks to my Linksys router (running Tomato) and then repeats the network out the Ethernet port, into which I've plugged my MythTV box. The beauty is that I can still run AirTunes, so I'm currently streaming audio out of iTunes at the same time!
Andy - I didn't realize you could use the thing as a repeater and still use it for AirTunes - that is good news indeed!
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