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[Mac Address] "Apple cancelled this, now what?" The history of early apple wifi and airport (www.youtube.com)

submitted 10 months ago by avboden@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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[–] Aggressive-Bath-1906@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Youre right about this. My Expresses are used only for airplay, so the WiFi mode is either off, or set to “join a wifi network,” depending on their proximity to an ethernet switch. They are basically acting like any other device on a wifi network, and not as a router.

I have three of the latest/last Airport Extreme towers, and two of those are the only ones with the wifi turned on to “Extend a network.” Since they are all on ac, theoretically there should be no slowdown to n speeds.

[–] halfbrit08@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Ah interesting. I still have an express and an extreme I'm not using. I switched to google home routers but I'd love to still connect my express to the network and use it as an airplay device.