Apple's new 802.11n AirPort Extreme

[tongodeon]

After a lot of waiting for the 802.11n standard to be ratified Apple finally released a new 802.11n AirPort Extreme. matrushkaka and I have had a lot of problems getting iChat AV to work, even with a well-behaved router running special firmware and UPnP, even after taking NAT out of the equation entirely by putting my machine in the DMZ. Skype works, but

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[rwx]

incidentally, i recommend the roku soundbridge, because it can connect to internet radio stations as well as itunes and is therefore very convenient. I don't know if this the problem you're trying to solve, though.

[veritatem]

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[tongodeon]

iChat doesn't use either UPnP or NAT-PMP.

iChat does use UPnP. Or at least it tries: I get an iChat-identified port mapping entry in my DD-WRT router when using iChat. (I'm not sure if it sets up the port mapping when iChat starts or when I attempt to initiate a video chat - I could check if knowing this would be useful.)

It's frustrating that very similar solutions Just Work™ while iChat doesn't, at least not without an Apple-branded router. (If only Skype's framerate was fast enough for matrushkaka to read lips.)

To be clear I'm not criticizing the router - it always works, and this is good. I'm criticizing iChat, which does not.

[tongodeon]

Fixing that will take time, which I don't have because I'm trying to figure out how to make the NAT faster without causing the kernel to panic when the phase of the moon is wrong.

I meant to ask a question which you are most likely not allowed to answer: what OS does the router run? I was thinking that it could be vxWorks like the new WRT54G and several other routers, but with the iPhone allegedly "running osx" I was thinking it was possible that a flavor of embedded OSX might already exist and could be used by Apple for free.

[sploof]

Minor disappointment: does not support AirTunes.

Well, that's annoying. I wonder if there's a technical reason or if they're just trying to push people to buy AppleTV to get their AirTunes functionality back.

Tried the USB NAS? I'm curious about how well that works.

[sploof]

AirPort Extreme has never supported AirTunes. That's only been a feature of their AirPort Express product.

Yeah, but since the Express came after the Extreme, I had hoped AirTunes would be included in subsequent Extreme releases.

Speaking of the Express - does the new Extreme support WDS with the Express or older Extreme WAPs?