That's one hardcore security update that makes wireless so impregnably secure, it's 100% broken.
I wonder what the iPhone will be like.
Wireless hub
I still love my Mac, but relented and agreed we should buy a PC laptop ( Windows, yeuch!). Homer needs it for work at home and convinced me I'd also benefit as I could surf the Internet from anywhere in the house. Well, that was the theory 
The laptop picked up a wireless signal fine in the ground floor living room where the Mac is - the Airport Express is directly below in the basement level - and in the hallway, about 15 foot away from the hub, but that was our lot. After much searching on the Internet I found a forum where our laptop is discussed and following a suggestion made on there, we can now also pick up a signal in the kitchen (so long as the laptop is working off the mains and not battery). Still not ideal, so I am now considering buying another Airport Express to extend the range of our network, but am wary of spending more money only to experience little improvement or even worse mucking up my present connection (I don't know what two thirds of the terminology means so heaven knows how I managed to set up a network in the first place!). Is it very simple to add on another Express?
Our house is an older property with quite thick walls and I wonder if this is part of the problem? I would have expected a far greater signal range than the paltry one we seem to have at present. The family room where I really want to pick up a signal is part of an extension and, as such, has part of the original, pretty thick, external wall as a partitioning wall. I wonder even if the second Airport is plugged in on the other side of this wall whether we will get a signal
Anyone else have this type of problem and is anyone using more than one Airport Express? Rathbone? Kipling?
The laptop picked up a wireless signal fine in the ground floor living room where the Mac is - the Airport Express is directly below in the basement level - and in the hallway, about 15 foot away from the hub, but that was our lot. After much searching on the Internet I found a forum where our laptop is discussed and following a suggestion made on there, we can now also pick up a signal in the kitchen (so long as the laptop is working off the mains and not battery). Still not ideal, so I am now considering buying another Airport Express to extend the range of our network, but am wary of spending more money only to experience little improvement or even worse mucking up my present connection (I don't know what two thirds of the terminology means so heaven knows how I managed to set up a network in the first place!). Is it very simple to add on another Express?
Our house is an older property with quite thick walls and I wonder if this is part of the problem? I would have expected a far greater signal range than the paltry one we seem to have at present. The family room where I really want to pick up a signal is part of an extension and, as such, has part of the original, pretty thick, external wall as a partitioning wall. I wonder even if the second Airport is plugged in on the other side of this wall whether we will get a signal
Anyone else have this type of problem and is anyone using more than one Airport Express? Rathbone? Kipling?
No ----- I've never used Airport Express. I currently have a Netgear wireless router, which works well, dealing with my Mac, my wife's P.C. and my ibook laptop. We get coverage through the whole house and in the garden. (Mind you, our house was built in 1954 and doesn't have gargantuan walls.)Marya wrote: is anyone using more than one Airport Express? Rathbone?
Are you sure the problem is the router and not the lap top?
I have nothing to say and I'm going to say it.
The Mac detects two other networks while the laptop can only see one other when in the same vicinity, so yes, the laptop is probably to blame. I just expected its wifi card to be more powerful than our ageing Mac. The laptop has a much higher spec. Ah well! You live and learn.rathbone wrote:Are you sure the problem is the router and not the lap top?