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#1
January 14th, 2007, 06:27 PM
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 Any thoughts on the Airport Extreme? With all the hoopla over the AppleTV and the iPhone, seems no one is talking about the Airport Extreme. Anyone have any thoughts on this device? Seems like a pretty good wireless hub, and the Airport disk seems like a simple NAS solution.  |
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#2
January 15th, 2007, 12:03 AM
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| Having a Core 2 Duo MacBook and MacBook Pro in the house, I’m going to upgrade to take advantage of the new 802.11n protocol. It also has a larger range and can operate at 5GHz, which should make it a lot better for my house. I just wish they were out now 
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#3
January 15th, 2007, 12:36 AM
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| It's a good device, but it's overpriced. There are plenty of third party wireless routers that do the same, often better, job.
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#4
January 15th, 2007, 12:44 AM
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| It's actually a fairly competitive device if you factor in the USB port and built-in storage. Linksys offers a similar device for about the same price. Don't forget, too, that you can add a USB hub to the Extreme and add multiple printers or drives. Also, it's going to be a heck of a lot easier to setup - on Macs, anyways.
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January 15th, 2007, 08:12 AM
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| i thought 802.11n had a lot of problems interfering with b and g?
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#7
January 15th, 2007, 08:20 AM
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| Airport disk is a feature that let's you plug in a usb hard drive and share it over the network. Definitely seems useful to me having a MBP with a couple of external drives I use for backup and such. |
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#8
January 15th, 2007, 10:27 AM
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| I apologise, I didn't realise Apple had released a new Airport Extreme, I was referring to the old base station that really was overpriced. where the heck did this come from? looks awesome.
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