Posts Tagged ‘networking’
Time Machine Backups from Airport Extreme
Hopefully Apple doesn’t make up some way to disable this in the future, but it seems that despite claims elsewhere on the web, the latest Airport Extreme
All you have to do is first plug the hard drive directory into your Mac, partition as desired and format filesystems as an HFS (Mac OS Extended). Then, plugin the drive and enable disk sharing on the Airport. After that’s done, your Aiport should show up in Finder. Once you mount it, you can select it from the Time Machine settings (it will appear as a Time Capsule).
That’s it! Glad I found out and wasn’t deterred by what Apple says and is on their forums. The Airport has been amazing, video streaming is far smoother now unlike with the aging wireless router I was replacing. Definitely a recommended buy!
Tags: airport, apple, backups, mac, networking, time machine
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Nov 10th, 2011
How to Treat Painfully Slow DNS Lookups in OS X
I’m not really sure what made this suddenly appear, but I’ve noticed over the past few days that my initial connections to websites have started taking longer and longer. Today, it became painful as the browser would say it was “Looking up example.com” for a good 3-4 seconds (if not longer) before loading the page. Once the lookup completed, the site usually came down pretty fast. Thanks to a (not so quick) Google search, I ran across this forum thread. It turns out, disabling IPv6 in OS X speeds things up quite a bit. To disable, go to System Preferences -> select the network interface you’re using (probably Airport) -> click Advanced.
Then, in the TCP/IP tab, change the drop down next to “Configure IPv6″ to “Off” instead of “Automatic”.
This worked for me. My browser and other various apps no longer take several seconds before loading pages on the web!
Tags: networking, os x, performance
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Apr 15th, 2010
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