Tag: Airport

I’ve been having a number of weird performance issues in the last month or so and I’ve finally attributed them to the Time Capsule. My friend Erick mentioned that he had just upped his Comcast speed to DOSCIS 3 and was getting 45mbps down, so I did the same. On ethernet, I would get the… Continue reading Awful Time Capsule wifi performance

Yes! Yes! After 12 months of not being able to use my router, Apple shipped Firmware 7.3.1 which passes SonicWall VPN packets! So far, the router is fast, super fast. Now to see if it keeps connections!

I’ve been in touch with AppleCare ever since I got this router. They have continued to “look into” our VPN issues with SonicWall. They even swapped my router for a new one (before the gigabits came out) The last email I from Apple was today: It appears we still do not have a solution or… Continue reading 10 months later – Apple Airport N Router still broken

I’ve been using my Apple Airport Extreme N router since March. Some things work great, like iChat now functions perfectly. However, other things, like accessing VPN with SonicWall’s client have never worked and there are still no solutions from Apple. Now, the damned thing can’t see my printer. Power cycle the printer, unplug from hub,… Continue reading Poor marks for Apple’s Extreme N router

Six months ago I bought an Airport Extreme N Basestation. The VPN has never worked with Sonicwall VPN client. Now, six months later, firmware 7.2.1 is out and the VPN is still broken. How patient should one be, waiting for Apple to support standards? Linksys works, why can’t Apple?

Yesterday I had Verizon switch my FIOS from PPPOE to DHCP. I was an early customer so I was on the cruddy PPPOE equipment. That was a long process but Keith rocked and got me taken care of within a day. Awesome! Last night I start my usual routine of testing the SonicWall VPN with… Continue reading Apple shoots customers in the foot with simplicity, again

People following my blog have noticed that I’ve a lot of problems with my Airport Extreme N, from VPN, to dropouts, to AirDisk. Throughout all of this, Daniel has been giving me excellent service, including phone updates, new equipment and status on the issues. I’m looking forward to the day I can report that my… Continue reading Excellent support from Apple

I’ve just discovered a nasty bug with AirPort Disk on firmware 7.1.1. While using Chronosync to backup my iPhoto library, CS kept complaining about a file already existing. Well replace it! So I finally started looking at the files. On the source, the filename was: 100_0002_2.jpg On the Airport Disk: iNode142770 Oops! So I unmounted… Continue reading Major Airport Disk flaw

While Charles reports he’s had one dropout of AirDisk (My name for Airport Disk) since 7.1.1 shipped, I’ve had an entire day of a disk mounted and operating quickly, about 2-3MB/s, over 802.11n and USB 2. Not bad I guess. I even used ChronoSync to sync 25gb of data to the AirDisk. Its been going… Continue reading Did Airport Extreme N firmware 7.1.1 fix AirDisk?

Apple released version 7.1 of the firmware for the Apple Airport Extreme N router today. While people on Apple Discussions have suggested it fixed the VPN client issues with Nortel software, but our tests here show that Sonicwall Client 3.1.0.556 still does not function. Sigh.

Apple’s new Airport Extreme N base station has a neat feature called AirDisk. You can attach drives to the USB 2 port on the base station and share them with users on your network, or over the internet apparently. Installation is easy. With the Airport Utility, you click Disks and choose how you want to… Continue reading AirDisk

I got an IM today and was told my new Aiport Extreme N basestation was in at the Mac Store! So I headed on over and picked it up. After I finished work, I plugged it into the laptop via ethernet to configure it. The Airport Assistant was easy to use and it even told… Continue reading Airport Extreme N has landed!

Found in the manual for the new Airport Extreme (of which I am anxiously awaiting) is this tidbit which might help us iChat users out there: You can set up NAT Port Mapping Protocol (NAT-PMP). NAT-PMP is an Internet Engineering Task Force Internet Draft, an alternative to the more common Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)… Continue reading Airport Extreme N supports NAT-PMP