airportthru

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airportthru

Hey Guys,

Have a strange one for you to ponder over. No matter where I go, when I either Netstumble or Just search for WiFi networks Im finding 'airportthru', always full signal strength, acting as a Peer to Peer network.

Im assuming its running on my laptop (Which IS a mac, I use a MacBook Pro) but cant find reference to it anywhere?!

Cheers
Paul

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Mar 15, 2007 4:45 PM

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Answer 1

Tesserax

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Mar 16, 2007 8:39 AM in response to Raven63

Look at your AirPort icon in the menubar. Is it grayed and have a small black square superimposed on it? Does the wireless network list include items under the title "Computer-to-Computer Networks?" If both are true, then you have an active "Computer-to-Computer" network enabled.

To disable it, just select "Disconnect from current network" option on the drop-down AirPort menu.

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Answer 2

Duane

Level 10

124,293 points

Mar 16, 2007 9:13 AM in response to Raven63

Raven63, Welcome to the discussion area!

It is really odd but a quick search of the Internet reveals that many people are seeing this with various operating systems and hardware platforms. I did find a link that states Samsung makes a line of "AirPortThru" cards. Not sure if or how this relates to your discovery.

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