I have two in my house alone, and sold an unused third one recently. His internet service provider configured its access so that it assigned network addresses from the same shared pool to several customers.
Worse, because of modern malware that hijacks standalone hardware, like DVRs, if one person on that pooled network has been infected, the malware could spread to all other vulnerable devices! Technically, the ISP is routing a set of addresses with the same subnet.
A subnet is a mask that essentially acts to define the size of a network range. The higher numbered the subnet, the more addresses that are masked.
AirPort Utility has the ability to set limits on what time of day the network and therefore the internet can be accessed from specific wireless devices. This can be helpful in situations where parents want to keep kids off of the internet after a certain time. Time limits can be set for different times on different days of the week. Airport Utility Stories July 11, Mark Gurman - Jul. The update, on both platforms, is to squash a bug for AirPort Base Stations not begin recognized by the app.
Apple, last month, pushed out AirPort Utility updates to add compatibility for the new Thanks, D! Airport Utility Stories February 11, Jordan Kahn - Feb. You can revert to a previous version of the firmware until Apple fixes the issue by using the instructions below:. Airport Utility Stories June 27, In addition, Apple appears to be now using consumer public drives from Western Digital bumped up from Hitachi Deskstar drives.
According to a HardMac reader :. I formatted it with Airport Utility to have the 3 partitions that are necessary for Time Machine and it was immediately recognized as a 3 TB disk. Space Explored. You can revert to a previous version of the firmware until Apple fixes the issue by using the instructions below: AirPort Utility 5 Open AirPort Utility. Select your base station and choose Manual Setup, or double-click on the Wi-Fi base station icon.
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