Easy Fruity Geekery
How to set up a local fileserver using an Apple Airport Extreme Basestation:
- Buy an Apple Airport Extreme Basestation.
- Plug a USB external Hard Disk Drive into the USB port on the Airport Extreme, and turn it on.
- Insert the Airport CD into your Mac, and follow the instructions.
- Open the Airport Disk Utility.
- Err... That's it. Your files are now served.
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You have to use a disc?
Discs are so last century, dahling...
Posted by: QE | June 4, 2007 4:19 PM
Well, no. You can use any USB memory storage facility.
Pity it's not Firewire though, especially with all that 802.11n-type speediness.
Posted by: Matt | June 4, 2007 7:15 PM
No, not the storage - there's no point running a file server for a few piddly GB of flash flimsiness - I thought I heard you say you had to use a CD...
USB2 is capable of almost twice as much bandwidth as 802.11n, so you've only got a problem there if the USB implementation is poor. I am surprised it doesn't do FireWire though.
Posted by: QE | June 5, 2007 10:36 AM
Yes, you have to use a CD, the 802.11n enabler for the MacBook Pro is on the CD, otherwise you have to pay two bucks for the privilege. But why pay two bucks when you have the CD you got with the Airport Extreme?
Looks like I'm getting really, really good read/write speeds from the router/HDD combo though. wrote 595MB movie file in wirelessly in about 20 secs (give or take a few secs). I reckon it's the drive, it's not the best, and only 4,200rpm. When I get my 7,200rpm LaCie drive I'll let you know the difference.
Posted by: Matt | June 5, 2007 10:50 AM