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Article: AirPort Base Station and AirPort Card.(Product Announcement)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- February 1, 2000
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WIRELESS-NETWORKING SYSTEM LETS YOUR MAC ROAM
AFTER A GREAT DEAL OF FAN-fare at last July's Macworld Expo, Apple has finally shipped the AirPort Base Station and accompanying AirPort card (sold separately), heralding a new era of wireless communication for Mac users.
With the AirPort, a network of Macs can share a single IP address, and up to ten users can connect to each other or to the Web via a single Base Station. You can also wirelessly network AirPort-equipped Macs without relying on a Base Station. However, don't expect to achieve the Ethernet-equivalent 11-Mbps throughput that Apple claims. The AirPort is plenty fast for a wireless connection, ...