Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station

The sleek, easy-to-use AirPort Extreme Base Station with Gigabit Ethernet is the perfect wireless access point for home, school, or small business. Blazing fast, it delivers up to five times the performance and up to twice the range compared to 802.11g routers.1 And you can use it with Macs, PCs and other Wi-Fi devices such as iPhone and Apple TV.

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• Reviewed by: janderson109

  05-21-08

  Duration of ownership: 5 Days

  Strengths: Good signal, which is the reason I purchased it. My husband can now get a good signal anywhere in the house (which has plaster walls) with his laptop. Couldn't before.

  Weaknesses:None really -- see comment below.

  Overall Evaluation: The only slight negative (not really a negative) is that the Air Port Extreme takes a few seconds to connect. My computer (an iMac) scans for a few seconds before it connects. So if I unsleep my computer I find I need to wait several seconds before hitting "Get Mail." If I don't wait, it says "can't find server" or something similar. This was not the case with my former router.

• Reviewed by: davelin

  04-23-08

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  Strengths: Best looking network equipment; strong, stable, reliable wireless signal; combines wireless and wired network routing; enables network access of printer and hard drive through USB; PC compatible

  Weaknesses:Can not access A band and B/G bands simultaneously

  Overall Evaluation: Only Apple seems to understand that consumer technology products can be both functional AND beautifully designed. I'm not quite sure why this is... Nevertheless, you can expect both great performance and elegant design to come with your Airport Extreme wireless router.

• Reviewed by: macoxp

  04-07-08

  Duration of ownership: 2 Weeks

  Strengths: N network speed. Easy setup. Printer and hard drive server.

  Weaknesses:Does not support port triggering.

  Overall Evaluation: This is the best router I have ever owned (I have 16 old ones sitting in my closet). I set it up in about 30 mins total. 2 macs and 1 pc on the network. All work great no problems. I have a harddrive and a printer hooked up at once with a usb hub. I opted out of installing the bornjour drivers on my xp machine and decided to do it manually. Only took 3 mins or so and was up and running on xp no problem, no extra drivers needed. Check this link for how i did it. http://tech.ifelix.net/1004.htmlThe macs just worked nothing to install.Also I get full bars all through my house now where as before my back bedroom was a dead zone. Only draw back is this does not support port triggering for bittorrent. But it does have port forwarding so i just used that.Moral of the story spend the little extra money on this one and you will be happy. and if you are running windows dont install bornjor it's not needed and just messes things up.

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  01-18-08

  Duration of ownership: 10 Months

  Strengths: Used to be great now a paper weight only wired parts work

  Weaknesses:Wireless slowly fails then goes away completely

  Overall Evaluation: Long list of problems that apple won't fix. Go to http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1222416&tstart=0 and make your own choice! Mine stated to drop out a lot then set it on it's side (overheating?) Now after 7 months it is just dead. Wireless does not work at all. Works great as a wired router switch!

• Reviewed by: ramuman

  01-06-08

  Duration of ownership: 4 Months

  Strengths: 802.11n, decent software, good features

  Weaknesses:AirDisk over WAN doesn't workCost

  Overall Evaluation: This is a solid router at the usual Apple premium. The price gets you a good router with software that is impressive. You can monitor quite a few stats including signal parameters for individual wireless clients etc. The features match and in some cases exceed the other 802.11n routers out there. However, AirDisk is a pain if you aren't using a Mac and even worse if you aren't the same network. I have been unable to setup AirDisk (which also doesn't support NTFS) to be accesible over a WAN with either a Mac or PC.

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Apple's Airport Extreme router boasts some nice features, including support for wireless range extension and USB drive/printer sharing. But you must decide whether to operate it in 2.4-GHz or 5-GHz mode.

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