Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Apple cancelled this, now what?”.
The iBook is among the most influential computers in computer history and it’s not because of how it looks. Unfortunately, I really wanted one of these as a kid because it actually pioneered a technology. We take completely for granted these days. It’S Wi-Fi this laptop and its companion. Router were the first devices to bring Wi-Fi to the masses after Apple, in a move that solidified Wi-Fi as the standard Wireless networking technology pushed the competing standard Into Obscurity, so Apple gave us Wi-Fi right up until they abandoned it.
Now this video is sponsored by Asus because they provide what Apple won’t anymore and I’ve got the whole history of airport Riders and I’m going to show you what they could do and why that’s not good enough anymore. We just upgraded our internet here at the house to 1 gig, which is amazing, but this decade Old Airport network can’t handle it, which is too bad cuz, it’s pretty sweet upon their release. In 2013, the Airport Extreme router supported the latest draft AC spec, which denoted a theoretical throughput of up to 1.3 gbits per second, which is close enough for me. It even supported Mesh networking before all the other kids started doing it.
I have an airport express in the living room that provides a lower latency, wired connection to the TV and airplane music to the stereo and in the basement I installed 2 TB Time Capsule to help up speeds there and provide local and convenient backups for my MacBooks. Without having to pay $ 10 a month for iCloud, but unfortunately, that’s not going to do because I’m not getting anywhere near the advertised speeds, the fastest speeds I’m able to get is around 500 megabits per second, and in this age, of countless Wireless, smart home devices, Crowding your network and home internet speeds reaching up to 2.5 GB per second or Beyond, using the latest. Wi-Fi Technologies is critical and and apple doesn’t offer them anymore. It’S a shame really because it was Apple who pushed for the Wi-Fi technology we know and use today. They made it happen and well before the term, Wi-Fi was even a thing. Let me explain back in the late 9s, things were a lot. Different Apple was a struggling company that had fallen from glory and the internet was this new whizbang thing that would bring the world’s information to our fingertips. That’S what the i in iMac is for, because not only did it have a telephone Internet modem built in it.
Also had ethernet, which was common only on business PCS at the time, ethernet is amazing, but the executives at Apple recognized, a problem constantly plugging in a laptop was never going to work, even if there were ports at every corner which wasn’t possible anyway, because retrofitting centuries Of asbestos filed building construction, especially in schools, was not something Apple could do or expect to happen quickly. The answer, of course, is Wireless. The most viable seeming wireless standard at the time was called home RF, which is being developed by a Consortium that included Intel, Motorola and Seamans, among others. It had momentum and, according to John Rubenstein, in an interview with the Computer History Museum, the home RF team was pushing the FCC standards to make it work for them better for home.
Rf versus you know not as good for Wi-Fi sounds good enough. Well, Apple. Didn’T go with home, RF, okay, so one thing I’ve really wanted to try is the first ever Network, so I got the first devices that Ed them and it was a huge pain to get this iBook to work. There was another technology called Waveland that was developed by a team at NCR in the Netherlands. They, under the leadership of Vic Hayes known as the father of WiFi, turned that technology into the first.
I E standard 802.11 by the late’90s. In that first standard things were still being figured out, but Apple saw potential. This one goes in the technology was being used in Industrial and Commercial applications, so it was expensive, big and inefficient, but Apple, using their muscle, essentially pushed for the technology to be scaled down. To a $ 100 PC card and $ 300 Airport Base Station leading to the implementation of the 802.11b standard, they introduced to the mainstream in 1999. From what I’ve seen many of the executives talk really fondly about the airport project, whether it was bringing the technology to Market or marketing it. At the book launch keynote, they made Phil Schiller jump off a scaffold onto a mat in front of everyone. It might not have the momentous reputation as the iMac, but I’d argue that it was more impactful to our daily life and apple really committed to Wi-Fi from then on. Every magc that was released Incorporated Wi-Fi antennas to make sure anyone could simply adopt Wi-Fi when they were ready. Just by plugging this card in, I tried so hard to get this to work. But unfortunately, I just can’t get the base station to connect to the internet, and even if I could, I probably wouldn’t even be able to get to a speed test website uh to verify the 11 megabits per second throughput that this supports. This uses Wi-Fi 1.
The final airport setup only supports the draft version of Wi-Fi 5 now Apple devices released in the past year, support 6E. That includes the new Macbook proos IMAX iPad pros and iPhone 15 Pro. So that’s why this video is sponsored. This is the top router from Asus their et2, it’s very beautiful it and their spider. Looking axe 7800 support. The current Wi-Fi 6E standard 7 is still in development, though Asus has a router. For that too. We’Ve come a long way.
Three Wireless bands, with a back haul for the mesh Network and speeds of almost 10 GB per second Yep, looks like we’re getting the full gigabit speeds just about anywhere in the house, but there’s more too. These routers support 2 1/2 gig ethernet, meaning you can connect the latest high-speed network attached storage and be ready for future internet speed upgrades. There are Advanced features at no extra cost like a simple to use network setup, app, built-in VPN security and family profiles to manage the Young’s internet usage. One thing I really like is how you can add any AI mesh supported Asus Routers to your wireless network.
Should you need more coverage and you can find out all about it in the link below now? Apple was also doing mesh before and early too back when Wireless G now called Wireless 3 was released. Apple was right at the front lines, with this AirPort Extreme and in 2004 they released this very handy Airport, Express it could be used as a standalone router, of course, but it could also connect, connect and expand your existing Network, while also serving as a printer server Through the USB port and music, through the audio output and AirPlay, though that was called air Tunes at the time, and that does mean that you’d have to place your printer next to your speakers. Doesn’T it, nevertheless, if you are outputting from iTunes, these supported multi-room audio? At the same time as the Plucky startup Sonos for the next decade, Apple kept up with the wireless Technologies, releasing models that supported the faster Wireless N, Wi-Fi 4 standard. They also introduced the convenience and security of local backups with the Time Capsule, which was an AirPort Extreme, with a hard drive built into it.
Yes, airport routers were one of the more expensive options at the time, but if you were an Apple user, you got a pretty simple and reliable setup with Technologies the mainstream didn’t adopt until years later. So what happened? Well, in 2013, Apple released their final Suite of routers 3 years later they disbanded the entire airport team and then in 2018 they discontinued and sold off the long old models. You don’t have to throw out these airports by the way the last Airport Express actually supports.
The current AirPlay 2 standard and The Time Machine can be connected to any network just like any device to still be used to back up your Maxs. So that’s nice, but if you want the fastest speeds and latest Technologies, you have to look elsewhere like these Asus Routers and thanks to them for sponsoring this video thanks for connecting to this Mac address wirelessly, I’m curious in the comments below when you got your first Wi-Fi router and if you want to check out another video, we did check out the one where I left an air tagged backpack on a train and then had to go, find it again. .