{"id":1884,"date":"2009-03-09T17:51:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T21:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2009-03-09T22:19:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T02:19:32","slug":"dual-band-time-capsule-and-airport-extreme-base-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/dual-band-time-capsule-and-airport-extreme-base-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Dual-Band Time Capsule and AirPort Extreme Base Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/db.tidbits.com\/article\/10112\">Glenn Fleishman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/db.tidbits.com\/article\/10112\">\n<p>In a briefing, Apple explained that you can give the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz networks the same name, and Apple hardware that supports 802.11n can choose which network to join based on quality of the signal and the speed that&rsquo;s available. This feature is unique to Apple gear; Windows and other platforms select somewhat randomly from available networks with the same name.<\/p>\n<p>You can also name the two bands&rsquo; networks separately, and manually force 802.11n clients to join the 5 GHz network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder how many people are, like me, already doing the latter using a base station plus an AirPort Express.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Fleishman: In a briefing, Apple explained that you can give the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz networks the same name, and Apple hardware that supports 802.11n can choose which network to join based on quality of the signal and the speed that&rsquo;s available. This feature is unique to Apple gear; Windows and other platforms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}