Reviews for AirPort Extreme Base Station

What a disappointment
Put out the extra cash to extend our network in our office to provide wireless to ourselves (iPhone, iPad etc) and guest network. Worked fine for awhile. Then stopped. Tried reset to factory default and started over, Airport utility "says" it is working fine, but no go. Given that it has been over 90 days, it would cost more than it is worth to pay for customer support - which would probably tell me I had to buy a new one (happened with my macbook too - just after it went beyond 3 year coverage)
planned obsolescence indeed!

45 of 63 people found this useful

I purchased the Airport Extreme after experiencing poor home Wi-Fi coverage and once a day resets on an older router. This new router is transferring data many many times faster and I have full signal strength almost everywhere. I run 2 Macs 3 PCs and 4 Iphone4s along with an HP 6500 printer (note: Windoz 7 needs the 6600 driver). Couldn't be happier, worth the money. It works. Negative reporters need professional help to make it work.

28 of 29 people found this useful

My old router was dropping signal about every third day, so I decided to upgrade. After a ton of research, I selected the AirPort Extreme Base Station. The setup was simple and took about 10 minutes in all. I am running 2 iMac's, a MacBook Pro, an iPad and 2 iPhones without issue. Great speed and extremely reliable. The coverage is great upstairs, downstairs, and in the backyard. Highly Recommend!!!

33 of 40 people found this useful

The setup was a no brainer, it self integrated into the existing network and the performance is simply outstanding. Leaves the pervious versions well back. Transmit speeds were 114 now they are 300. Made a huge difference.

27 of 28 people found this useful

*I just bought the Extreme tonight and it's really worth the extra money! It was incredibly easy to set up. I have a 21.5" iMac, an older iMac, a MacBook, iPhone 4, two iPhone 3GS and an xBox to connect wired to connect to this router. Since some of the devices aren't mine, I don't want them connected to the same network as my iMac. It was incredibly easy to set up the main network as well as the Guest network.
*The best part is how much faster my internet is now. I never thought the router could make THAT big of a difference. But I was blasting through pages faster than connecting directly to the modem!
*One thing you might want to know is if you're used to seeing the multiple blinking or steady lights on the front of your previous router, there's only one light you have to watch for. I was sitting there wondering when the other lights would light up until I actually read the instruction booklet.

26 of 26 people found this useful

I purchased the Airport Extreme Base Station friday night after many months of problems with my old Linksys network router setup.

The base station is very nice looking and very easy to setup. I plugged in my Cable modem (WAN) and one ethernet cable to my desktop iMac. The setup for NAT, Wifi, Password, etc. were all very easy and straight forward. I was up and running in less than 10 minutes. Two wonderful things have happened because of this product:

1) I discovered my cable internet speeds are in excess of 40+ Mbit/s down and 2 Mbit/s up. (With my old hardware it was 8 Mbit down/1 Mbit up).

2) My wifi no longer drops it's connection to any of my wifi devices (Mac laptops, iPads, iPhones, etc).

I've been testing this product all weekend long by shutting down, putting devices to sleep/wake... streaming data/movies, etc. This product performs very nicely! No hiccups at all! Thank you Apple for another amazing device :) I highly recommend this product over any other wifi base station out there. Definitely worth the price.

5 out of 5 stars *****

26 of 26 people found this useful

With a price tag of $179.99, I was hesitant to buy this router. I love having the best of things, but wasn't sure how the range of this router would compare to a high end Linksys router. My computer is on the top floor of my two story house in one corner and my Smart TV, PS3, and Apple TV are on the 1st floor in an opposite corner. With the Linksys Dual-Band N router I was receiving 70% signal on those devices. After I gave in and bought the Apple Airport Extreme, the connection went up to 75%. This was not a huge increase, but it showed me the Apple router has just as good a range, (if not better), than Linksys. I decided to keep the Apple router because it is easy to use, looks great, and I was able to get the Airpot Express to extend my range. Only with the Apple router can you use the Airport Express as an extender. After connecting the Express my signal on all my devices downstairs are at 100%.

27 of 28 people found this useful

This router has been a solid performer with no problems (or restarts) for nearly a year. Sure, there are other routers with additional features or greater throughput, but for most people this does everything you need it to do and then some. Our household is primarily Apple computers, so it seemed like a good fit when updating from a terrible belkin router. Living near an apartment complex loaded with dozens of 2.4 routers, the 5Ghz band was the major selling point for me. I gave it 4 stars not because of it's functionality or reliability , but because the setup and configuration (via airport utility) are not on par with the user-centric approach Apple is known for. I had no problems setting up the router, but other vendors do offer easier setup and configuration, but there is definitely room for improvement...especially from Apple.

32 of 38 people found this useful

the airport is good i love it but it get's really hot that is the only thing that i don't like why does it get so hot

34 of 42 people found this useful