You are hereBlogs / meck's blog / Airport Extreme extremely faster
Airport Extreme extremely faster
Good news for all owners of the latest generation Apple computers. Today our mighty company offers us a firmware update enabling the wireless hardware to communicate with up to 540 MBits/s. WOW! (No, I am not talking about the Vista effect :))
Forced by U.S. law Apple has to charge us for the download with money. In Europe the price is 1,95 Euros. Nice thing in general I think. I only wonder if Apple could have made an exception for European customers, because the laws here would have allowed a different solution.
Oh, I forgot: If you buy an original Apple router, the update comes free of charge... but I am not sure if I'll buy that. For now I enjoy the speedup I got by switching from 11 to 54 MBits.
Update: A footnote in the U.S. Apple Store says: "The software license for the 802.11n Enabler software allows you to install and use it on all computers under your ownership or control."
Year, I think I control at least the computers of my friends! ;-)
- meck's blog
- Login to post comments
There has been much controversy surrounding this release of Apple's Airport 802.11n enabler. Actually at first, Apple wanted to charge $4.99, but after being heavily criticized they dropped it to $1.95. Still, many analysists believe the law would not apply to Apple as there are "ways to get around this". But I have to admit, I don't know the details.
I guess many people are just afraid that in the future they will have to pay for enabling each of the components inside their system. Given the trouble this update has made for Apple, I am hopeful that this day is still far away.