Airport Extreme Base Station (With 56K Modem/Antenna)

The AirPort Extreme Base Station provides a wireless connection between Macintosh systems with AirPort and AirPort Extreme Cards and your Internet connection. It can be used in conjunction with an Ethernet connection (such as with a cable modem, DSL modem, or Ethernet network) through the integrated Ethernet port, or with a telephone line through a modem.

The AirPort Extreme Base Station also supports USB or Ethernet wireless printer sharing. Just plug in a compatible USB or Ethernet printer and with Mac OS X on your computer you can quickly and easily print. You can use the new USB port to attach a USB printer or use the 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN port to plug in an Ethernet printer directly into the base station. Now you can share a really great printer with everyone at home or in the office. 4

Using the new AirPort Extreme Base Station, up to 50 users can work and play on the Internet simultaneously up to 150 feet away from an Ethernet connection or a phone line. And your new base station comes equipped with a built-in firewall to protect sensitive data on your computer and the ability to secure transmissions with support for 128-bit encryption. The AirPort Extreme Base Station is compatible with AOL (USA only) Internet access if AOL is your ISP. The base station also supports AOL parental controls.

With the AirPort Extreme base station it is also possible to manage the range of your wireless network. An external antenna port is provided for you to attach an external antenna (requires the base stations with external antenna port). There are two types of antennas available: an omni-directional and a directional. With these antennas you can extend the range of the AirPort Extreme base station. There is also a software feature that allows you on reduce the size of your wireless network, down to just a single room for extra privacy.

The AirPort Extreme base station comes in two configurations. One configuration includes a 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN port, a 10/100BASE-T Ethernet WAN port, and a USB port. A second configuration includes the already mentioned ports, plus a built-in v.90 modem with an RJ-11 port, and an external antenna port.

54 Mbps - nearly 5x faster
The turbocharged new technology lets you connect to the Internet without wires, additional phone lines or complicated networking hardware.(1) AirPort Extreme consists of two components: the AirPort Extreme Card and the AirPort Extreme Base Station. Together, they represent the future of wireless networking. You'll see how fast this technology really is when you use AirPort Extreme to network AirPort Extreme-enabled computers in your home or office. In a video production studio, for instance, users can transfer large digital video files between computers at astonishing speeds. Do the math: the fastest broadband connections typically achieve speeds up to 1.5Mbps. AirPort Extreme, on the other hand, lets you share files with other AirPort Extreme users on your network at speeds of up to 54Mbps.(2)

Compatible with 802.11b
AirPort Extreme delivers speeds up to 54Mbps for customers who have both the AirPort Extreme Card and the AirPort Extreme Base Station. But if you want to use the AirPort Extreme Base Station with your 802.11b AirPort Card, you'll still enjoy significant benefits. That's because the AirPort Extreme Base Station features a compatibility mode that automatically supports not just the AirPort Extreme Card (at data rates up to 54Mbps), but all 802.11b-compliant products (at data rates up to 11Mbps) - Mac or Windows - as its default setting. The AirPort Extreme Card works with 802.11b-based public hot spots and with 802.11b wireless networks in schools, offices and hotels.

Provides tight security
AirPort Extreme includes advanced security features like firewall protection and 128-bit encryption to safeguard your data from unauthorized users. The integrated firewall prevents unauthorized Internet users from accessing your private network (which includes all the wired computers attached to the base station as well). That's because when your AirPort Extreme Base Station is configured to share your Internet connection with other machines, the base station serves out private network addresses to all of your computers on the network. Since these addresses are known only to the base station, your computers are hidden from IP-based web-launched attacks.

There's more: if you want to have a private network and would like to limit its range to a conference room for security reasons, there's an easy way. The AirPort Admin Utility software allows you to decrease the power level through the internal antenna, and thus control the range of the base station.

AirPort Extreme supports RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service), a powerful feature that enables administrators of roaming networks to update access control lists quickly and easily, and store them on a remote server. Plus, AirPort provides Cisco LEAP (Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol) support for AirPort Extreme clients connecting to a Cisco LEAP access point. So no one can access your network without your permission.

Lets you widen your range
AirPort Extreme lets you use wireless bridging to widen your range beyond the standard 150-foot coverage. Bridging, which allows one AirPort Extreme Base Station to connect to another AirPort Extreme Base Station, eliminates the need to run expensive cables to extend a network. Previously, all AirPort Base Stations required a physical connection to the Internet. With wireless bridging, two or more AirPort Extreme Base Stations can be connected wirelessly, effectively increasing the range of your network. The AirPort Extreme Base Station w/modem also features an external antenna connector for extending your wireless connectivity beyond the 150-foot range of your built-in internal antennas (you can choose to connect either a directional or an omnidirectional antenna).


Hardware Specification

Product Highlights

  • Nearly 5x faster than 11Mbps 802.11b
  • Built-in v.90 modem and external antenna port
  • Wireless printing for Ethernet and USB printers 1*
  • 10/100-T Ethernet WAN port for DSL or Cable Modem connection
  • Compatible with Airport and Wi-Fi certified 802.11b window clients
  • Increased security through 128-bit WEP encryption and built-in firewall protection
  • Made for Mac OS X

Access Point Features

  • Confirms to IEEE 54Mb/s 802.11g (Draft) specification, IEEE 11Mb/s 802.11b specificaion
    - Frequency band : 2.4GHz
    - Modulation : Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
    - Non Overlapping Channel : 3
  • Data rates of wireless : 11Mbps (Fallback to 11, 5.5, 2, 1Mbs, Automatic Rate Selection)
  • Operating Modes : Infrastructure, Ad-hoc
  • Operating Channel 1 - 13
  • Wireless Security
    - upto 128-bit WEP encryption

Management Features

  • Simple to use AirPort Setup Assistant
  • Flash-Upgradeable memory for firmware upgrades/enhancements through Web/TFTP

LAN Ports

  • One RJ-45 port for 10M/100M Ethernet LAN connection
  • One USB version 1.1 Port
  • One MMCX Antenna Port

WAN Ports

  • One RJ-45 port for 10M/100M Ethernet WAN connection
  • One RJ11 port for built-in v90 modem

Package Contents

  • One Apple Airport Extreme Base Station
  • One UK Power Adapter
  • One UK Power Lead
  • One Manual and Software CD
  • One Mounting Bracket

Manufactures Warrenty

  • 3 years

1* Printer must be physically connected to the USB or LAN port. Wireless printing over USB requires Mac OS X v10.2.3 or later and compatible printer

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