Reviews for AirPort Extreme Base Station

I recently upgraded from a gen 4 to a gen 5. I've had it for about eight weeks. I made the decision to upgrade solely based on the positive reviews found here. Several claimed that their range and strength doubled. Sadly, that was not my experience. I would say it is 10% better at best and I have to reboot it periodically to keep range & signal at the optimum level. My service is through AT&T U-verse. I'm using the 2Wire router to feed my Airport Extreme. It is in the basement office. My main disappointment is when I use the WiFi to stream music via Air Play throughout the house. The music will drop out intermittently when I'm in the kitchen. This is where the main stereo is. It has a Airport Express connected to it. I've attempted to convert the Express to an extender, but it didn't work. My advice is to save your $180 and wait until a later generation really improves the signal & range.

Got it today Can't be happier. The installation was a bit long but I ended up finding that i needed to restart my modem. Amazing speed, I currently have connected 2 iphones, 2 laptops, smart Tv and no problem at all. One great thing was that i connect my printer to the network. I also created a guest network for friends. Great ways to set it up with airport utility. Amazing product.The router look beautiful by the way.

I had been having a ton of issues with the various wireless routers I have used over the years, whether it was belkin, lynksys, d-link, whatever. Most of them I could never even get a good solid snap in of the cable from the cable modem so if they got moved at all, they would lose connection. I knew I was going to love the AirPort Extreme when I got that satisfying "CLICK" of the ethernet cable seating perfectly into the WAN port. Then I turned it on and when I did, it was like magic. I set it up from the AirPort utility on my windows 7 laptop and then I ran around and set the rest of my windows machines, my tivo, both xbox 360s, my playstation, my Sony dvd blu-ray player (using and external wireless hub through wired connection), my wirless HP Printer, and my Iphone 4 with unbelievable simplicity. I can not get over how easy this was to install and to get working on all of my devices. And to top it all off, my sygnal strength went from a waivering 2 to 3 bars at the farest reaches to full strength throughout the house. My son's computer, which has had repeated issues with bad connectivity and lag, is now lag-free. This device works great whether on an Apple device or any other wireless-N device. I absolutely love it. Thanks apple for a great, high quality product.

Works great with all my wireless devices including my xbox. My nat type is open from the start which is great. My printer started to be wireless again. Just a great product like everything else apple makes!

I toyed with other brand however they never lived up to expectations. I should have guessed that the best router in Mac ecosystem was an Airport. No rebooting, no glitches and no bugs. Fast consistent internet throughout my whole property!

I have BT Hub 3 trying to run over 16 devices, phones, computers and HP printer over the air.
BT hub just could't handle it. it kept loosing Passwords in the phones, iPad, computers & printer.

I got an Airport Extreme & plugged it in to BTHub 3.
Out of box & running in minutes. All sighned in, all worked & all the over Air. It is so nice to turn on, printer prints, phones, computers, iPads & iPods on are on the Net.

I'm HAPPY

i a extreme 5th gen and it was easy to setup easy to connect. its a great product. it is only slightly faster than my old g router at loading webpages but much faster streaming video from youtube and from iTunes to iPad. my old router crashed a few times a week and needed to be unplugged. a week after getting my airport i tried loading a website but nothing happened, i was disappointed and thought it was going to be like my old dlink but i waited a few minutes and it came back. it has never crashed since and never needed any maintenance other than the occasional update. the range on it is good. it it in the basement and covers the 3 floors of my house and detached garage. also shares my hp printer flawlessly.

All I wanted to do was use AirPlay on my HK Soundsticks III Via airport express. Figure extreme would be able to take care of this plus more. WRONG. No audio jack on extreme. Seems so simple to put an audio jack on the upgraded extreme,but nope. Apple got me again. I will now be buying an airport express now. Thanks apple, you put the M.O. In monopoly.

It's a wireless router, what can you say? If it works, and it's seemless giving you no problems, then to me that's 5 stars. Here's why I give it 4 stars: No Web Interface. After working for years with other brand routers, I was shocked this had no interface. Lucky I actually have a Mac with the configuration utility installed, and the helpful rep at the Apple store pointed it out to me before I left the store. Why is that a big deal? I have a mixed environment, mostly Virtual Windows PCs or Virual Linux that I tunnel in and access remotely. My Mac is just the iTunes / iPhone / iPad environment, and isn't up all the time. : No QoS? No sure, maybe this product has an internal network shaping priority packets assigner, but it's not obvious, it looks like all the traffic has the same priority. Fortunately for me, my VoIP is directly on the Cablemodem, so I can't even say if a lack of QoS has an effect. : Expensive, at $179.99, the price is about $80 more than I would expect. But for that money has a really cool feature - I have a large house, and I'm able to configure a second base station to seemlessly provide more coverage. Throughput is great since I have them connected to eachother with Gigabit cables. The "old cheap way" was to use two separate wireless SSIDs, now with this Apple Extreme, the second unit seemlessly extends coverage without looking like you have two networks. : I wish the status was a little more helpful, but then again one glowing green light or blinking amber is a lot better than an array of flashing LEDs 24/7. : Reserving IP Addresses - here's where Apple's simplicity doesn't work. I had to actually use pen & paper to write down the Mac addresses before re-typing them in to reserve. Hello, the Airport, it's 2012. D-Link allows you already know the mac addresses of devices connected to it, the interface ought to have a right click, reserve it's IP, boom it's done, but know, I had to write down the hex addresses to re-type them in.