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   'Take Control of Your Apple Wi-Fi Network' Keeps Networks Fast,
   Reliable, and Secure

   Adam C. Engst

   Some things improve with age, and while old Wi-Fi networks don't fall
   into that category, Glenn Fleishman's documentation of everything
   related to Apple's AirPort base stations and Wi-Fi networking continues
   to get better. Over the past decade, Glenn's 'Take Control of Your
   AirPort Network' books have consistently ranked among our most popular
   titles for a good reason ' they're the essential resources that the
   Apple community relies on for help with Wi-Fi networks.

   To keep up with Apple's changes, we've just published '[1]Take Control
   of Your Apple Wi-Fi Network,' a new title that focuses on the latest
   tools and technologies for wireless networking, such as AirPort Utility
   6 for Mac and AirPort Utility for iOS, plus Apple's 802.11ac base
   stations. In this 196-page book, Glenn helps you swap in new gear for
   better performance, extend your network's range with multiple base
   stations, add USB drives and shared printers, enable security options
   and guest networking, maximize throughput, and solve pesky problems. It
   costs $20 and is available for immediate download.

   '[2]Take Control of Your Apple Wi-Fi Network' will show you how to do
   the following, among much else:
     * Efficiently swap in a new base station in place of an old one.
     * Extend your network's range by connecting base stations with
       Ethernet and/or Wi-Fi.
     * Easily put visitors on the Internet with a guest network.
     * Print wirelessly to a Wi-Fi- or USB-connected printer.
     * Attach a USB drive to a Time Capsule or AirPort Extreme, and set up
       user access.
     * Back up to a Time Capsule, and work with the Time Capsule's
       internal drive.
     * Pipe music through an AirPort Express-connected stereo.
     * Discover what the icon on your Wi-Fi menu means.
     * Find out what the colored light on your base station is trying to
       tell you.
     * Avoid annoying interference problems.
     * Deal with a base station that can't be found on the network.

   Why the new title? Now that Apple is making 802.11ac base stations, we
   needed a new title that didn't explicitly reference 802.11n, hence
   '[3]Take Control of Your Apple Wi-Fi Network' replacing the previous
   'Take Control of Your 802.11n AirPort Network.' We didn't call it
   ''Take Control of Your AirPort Network' because Glenn's first Wi-Fi
   networking ebook used that title back in 2004, and because Apple seems
   to be deprecating the AirPort name within OS X and iOS.

References

   1. http://tid.bl.it/tco-apple-wifi-tidbits
   2. http://tid.bl.it/tco-apple-wifi-tidbits
   3. http://tid.bl.it/tco-apple-wifi-tidbits

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