The AirPort Base Station was discontinued after the updated AirPort Extreme was announced on January 7, 2003. In addition to providing wireless connection speeds of up to a maximum of 54 Mbit/s, it adds an external antenna port and a USB port. An AirPort Extreme base station can serve up to 50 wireless clients at once, and thus is more suitable for a corporate environment than the AirPort Express ... Read more
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The Apple Airport Extreme Base Station or AEBS in short, as we prefer to call it, was recently released by Apple along with new iMacs and other upgrades. This version is an upgrade to the older AEBS that was release a year and half back. The AEBS has been designed especially for Mac users and they get to enjoy more features than their Windows counterparts ... Read more
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Interfaces
One Gigabit Ethernet WAN port for connecting a DSL or cable modem
Three Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports for connecting computers or network devices
USB 2.0 port for connecting a USB printer or USB external hard drive
802.11n wireless
IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless
Compatibility
Interoperable with Wi-Fi Certified 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, or 802.11n enabled Mac computers, iPhone, iPod touch, and Windows-based PCs
Security
Wi-Fi Protected Access™ (WPA/WPA2)2
Wireless security (WEP) configurable for 40-bit and 128-bit encryption
MAC address filtering
NAT firewall
Support for RADIUS authentication
802.1X, PEAP, LEAP, TTLS, TLS, FAST
Time-based access control
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