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Appears to just be updating the Airport management software to support these new features for the new routers. No new firmware (yet) to add these features to the previous models.

The Extreme has had this ability (via wide-area Bonjour) for years, so it would be a nice feature to expose in the GUI, and could possibly upsell some existing owners to Mobile Me. Um, please?

Tracking someone using the RFID tags left in their clothing from inventory would be one of the least efficient means of stalking someone ever conceived. There are already much simpler ways to identify you (yes, you!) in public than trying to link up that serial number (which is what the tag really is, a unique ID) to a manufacturer's database to your credit card to your identity.

If you really want to be anonymous, unplug your computer, disconnect your cell phone, cut up your credit cards, and don't walk down a city street for the rest of your life. I'm surprised by how easily people scare over RFID when they're already on camera 24/7.

There are large tides of economics which mean that RFID will replace barcodes in the next decade or so, which means a lot of good things for both retailers and consumers. The threat of "privacy loss" is actually very minimal when we're talking about tagging retail goods. This is opposed to the horrible implementation in US passports, which really is a security nightmare. If you're looking to demonize the technology, you might as well start there, with the big guns.

Yes, having a G (or B) device connected to the same network will slow it down! 802.11 networks which support b/g/n operate at the fastest level of the slowest device connected. So a Wii or an iPhone or an older laptop running on your TC network will pull it down to g speeds.

We solved this problem by segmenting our network - I've got an old Airport Express which creates one wifi network for the b/g devices, and an Extreme that's locked to n for the laptops. They're connected over ethernet, so we can see the devices on either end, but we keep n speeds between laptops and our NAS.

Yes, we have entirely too much wireless data flowing through our apartment.

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