The good, speedy Sprint stuff is coming to New York City. Per The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Sprint has begun rolling out LTE service for parts of New York City, including the Bronx and Brooklyn. Sprint says it will flip the switch for those areas on July 30. Sprint has been way behind AT&T, Verizon and […]
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Late Thursday, Apple released AirPort Utility 6.3.1, a 21 megabyte download which offers the following fixes to the AirPort Utility software: – Fixed an issue that caused some AirPort Base Stations not to be recognized by device apps. The update requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later to install and run. […]
If you’ve been hankering for AT&T to expand its 4G LTE network to additional markets, your wait is over. Per AppleInsider, wireless carrier AT&T announced that it was bringing its 4G LTE service online in a range of new places across the U.S. The latest rollout is a continuation of AT&T’s bid to expand 4G […]
If you’re having trouble with the Wi-Fi on your new mid-2013 MacBook Air, a fix may be on the way. Per AppleInsider, in a likely response to reports of 802.11ac Wi-Fi issues with its latest MacBook Air refresh, Apple late Friday began sending out invitations to select users, offering inclusion in the AppleSeed Program to […]
Even in the event that the Wi-Fi connectivity issues on the mid-2013 MacBook Air notebooks are hardware-based, the underlying operating system software is apparently throttling potential data speeds on the new networking protocol. Per AnandTech and CNET, a series of tests by AnandTech confirms that much of the Wi-Fi speed throttling is software-based. The new […]