Occasionally, I would mistakenly tap Cancel instead of Done-both options are near each other at the top-and erased a change I made. The drill-down approach of tapping menus and choosing settings works well. AirPort Utility can even set up fixed addresses for computers on the local network using DHCP Reservation. But tap an Edit button, and you can drill down into most but not all configuration details, from picking a particular 5-gigahertz radio channel to the rate of speed at which a given wireless client has connected. The app provides ready access to information you need from a router, such as the IP address at which it’s operating and has been assigned by an Internet service provider or set manually. Social Networking: The iOS version of AirPort Utility includes something that would be welcome in the desktop version: a graphical depiction of your network’s set-up. If only Apple would bring such simplicity to its desktop utility. The graphic works equally well on the scale of the iPhone and iPod touch and on the iPad. A red or yellow icon next to the globe representing Internet connectivity or a router means something’s wrong. At a glance, you can pick a router, which Apple represents with an accurate thumbnail of its appearance, to examine or configure. The mobile app, however, opens with a dramatic difference: a graphical depiction of your network’s wiring and wireless routes to the Internet and among base stations.
The free AirPort Utility for iOS from Apple includes all the relevant functionality of the desktop software plus a little extra.Įxcept for cosmetic improvements and a minor name change, the Mac and Windows version of AirPort Utility hasn’t changed all that much since 1999.
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Until the release of the AirPort Utility app in October 2011, the only way to configure an AirPort Extreme Base Station, Time Capsule, or AirPort Express was from the desktop AirPort Utility software included in recent version of Mac OS X and available as a free download for Windows.
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