Product DescriptionThe sleek, easy-to-use AirPort Extreme Base Station is the perfect wireless access point for home, school, or small business. Get up to five times the performance and up to twice the range of conventional 802.11g routers. Quickly set up your wireless network with AirPort Utility, available for both Mac OS X and Windows, to your DSL or cable modem. Within minutes, you and up to 50 other users can stream videos, share photos and more without wires. Next-generation 802.11n wireless technology features multiple antennas to deliver maximum speed and range. You can even connect a printer to the USB port on the AirPort Extreme Base Station and it will instantly become available to everyone on your wireless or wired network. AirPort Extreme offers a built-in firewall and supports industry-standard encryption to prevent unauthorized intrusion into your wireless network. WPA/WPA2 and 128-bit WEP let authorized users to connect to it easily with simple setup utility and powerful access controls.
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Rating: - Don't waste your money if you are running intel Macs and Leopard 10.5 up
Junk on intel Macs
Written by GW from vallejo
SHAME SHAME SHAME ON APPLE WITH THIS FLUB!
I am typing this review on my living room floor with the ethernet cable swapped from the back of the Tivo box and into my MB Pro to the Airport Extreme. Thats how confident I am that it will stay wirelessly connect to either my new Intel macs. It, or they, won't stay wirelessly connected. EVER.
When you spend double on an over marketed Apple product that whose generic equivalent ... Read More
Rating: - Piece of Cr-Apple!
OK, so I bought the extreme because the wife was experiencing very slow download speeds with the Linksys wireless router and Apple promised lightning fast speed/downloads. The extreme delivers when it works, no doubt. I own a Macbook Pro and the set up was easy. I experienced similar problems with the wireless network randomly dropping. I would wake up in the morning and it would be off, so I would replug it and it would work for an unknown period of time before it dropped again. I returned it twice ... Read More
Rating: - Best Router I've ever owned.
I'm not a novice. I know a lot about routers and how they work. I'm also familiar with their limitations, and I can honestly say that this is the best consumer router I've ever used.
I do a lot of downloading with bittorrent clients and this is the first router I've used that allows me to download wirelessly without killing the wifi connection to the other computers in the house, as well as my own ability to browse. Seriously - I've got Azureus crankin' at full speed and I can still enjoy Youtube. ... Read More
Rating: - AirPort is easy to set up
This device makes going wireless very easy. Just follow the instructions and you are online. We have an iMac and several Windows-based PCs and were a little concerned whether they would all work. No problem.
Rating: - Apple Wireless
This was one the easiest installs that I have had in regards to wireless devices. For someone not familiar with mac, this could prove to be tricky, so some research would be helpful. Ever since I installed it, I haven't had any issues with the it. My old wireless, I had to constantly reset and turn on and off for a variety of reasons. This has been very rock solid.
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Electronics : Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station (Gigabit) MB053LL/A
- Don't waste your money if you are running intel Macs and Leopard 10.5 up
- Best Router I've ever owned.