Comments on: Office Rewire

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:30:30 +0000

@Rob Wall: I have WPA2 Personal running on the new Airport Extreme; but you give me an idea that doing a MAC address whitelist would be maybe better; I intend to be the only user. My guest access one is (yes I know it is bad) wide open– the reason being that I am in a very small town where I have no neighbors even here in reception range; sure someone might drive by and pick up a signal, but this is a smal town in a rural county, and the amount of use of technology is really low. I previously had it on WPA2 but had a group of techie friends visit a few months ago, and felt it was easier not to mess around with passwords. So woot free wireless in Strawberry!

The AppleInsider article was really key on getting the ne Extreme set up right- set to do 802.11n on the 5 GHz band and to use the dual channels setting to maximize the “tube” (the way I understand it). My access is noticeable faster; my Skype video quality is very clear now, where before it got blocky and dropped frames; and my VOIP phone is now usable; previously it was very choppy and I would lose about every 4the word.

By: Rob Wall

Rob Wall — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:00:57 +0000

I’ll echo Skip and give you full props for sharing the setup with us. I like the way you are using the older Airport as an access point for machines other than your laptop. Do you have any security set up on the “guest” access point or is it left completely open? What about security on the new Airport – WPA, MAC address whitelist?

I’ll probably use a couple of the techniques you’ve shown, and I’ll definitely be showing your setup to my Grade 10 computer networking class (with proper attribution, of course).

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:42:38 +0000

@Skip – Found some stuff, but nothing to suggest that the disk image is a problem. If it gets corrupt, apparently you can run disk utility tools on the image file.

My backups seems to be going; I did find some leads on how to do your initial backup via a locally connected drive, make a disk image of that:
http://jamesshore.com/Blog/How-to-Accelerate-Time-Machine.html

By: Skip Zalneraitis

Skip Zalneraitis — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:51:38 +0000

Thanks for sharing the facts and details. I’ll be interested to read about disk image issue, if you do research it.