Reviews for AirPort Extreme Base Station

I just got one on Amazon yesterday and it's awesome. It set up very easily and I had all (including iPhones and my Mom's Tablet) 7 devices set up in about 5 minutes. The guest network is even easier to set up.

Completely dead after a year and a half. Airport Utilities can not find Airport. Will not reset. Are you kidding me? Isn't apple supposed to be the best??

I LOVE this router. Have had it for two years now and have never had an issue. I cannot say enough good things about it. I got tired of having to replace my router every year so decided to invest in an AirPort, am so glad I did. Like everything else Apple, it is so low-maintenance and just figures everything out itself. No complicated installation, it literally worked itself out. Another great feature is how quickly it alerts you if you go offline. Every router I've had in the past has made it difficult to determine whether the router or the modem is the issue, the AirPort just pops right up and tells you. This product is worth every dime, you will not regret it!

The only reason I bought this router is to have the ability to share disk and printer.
The external disk drive won't wake up properly from my MacBook Pro (retina) sleep mode.
The only way to get the drive back is to power cycle the external drive.
Worst than the external drive not being available, the whole OS stops to function properly.
The finder doesn't respond, I guess it was looking for the external drive.
The airport utility can't read the router setting since it can't read the external drive status.
I know the external drive is the culprit because the moment I power down the USB drive, all the blocking tasks came back and function properly again. The finder is no longer "not responding". The airport utility can read router settings.

This issue seems to be well known and I should've search the web prior to the purchase. Then again, how am I to know what "issues" to search for before I experience this bug?

WiFi wise, there's nothing spectacular about it. Just like any other AP. But over priced.
Apple has gone down the "arrogance' path now. Won't fix real world bugs due to some theoretical principle.
Just like the OS X upgrade (Lion and beyond) where key repeat functionality is taken away because they want to "unify" with iOS. If so, why not display a virtual keyboard when the cursor is in input box?

Fix bugs!!!!!
The same external drive operates properly when connecting directly to the laptop, but becomes un-reachable overtime when connecting to AE.t

I really liked my Airport Extreme, but the radio part died a month or two after the 1-year warranty expired. I recommend this product, BUT GET AN EXTENDED WARRANTY!

$180 a year is too much to pay.

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.

Don't let the bad comments fool you. This is an amazing product. I was skeptical if the airport extreme would be better than my linksys router overall. MY GOD. I'll confess that the range is essentially the same but the internet speed.......

VERY NOTICEABLE INCREASE!!!

I recently moved from a small condo building in downtown Washington, DC to a much-larger apartment building complex with hundreds of apartments. As a result, my Belkin Wireless router just didn't cut it anymore.

There were so many interfering signals that it simply lost its connection all the time. It would drop at least four or five times per hour which made playing video games online or streaming Netflix really frustrating.

My girlfriend had a much better router but even that didn't manage to emit a strong-enough signal throughout my apartment to overwhelm interference from other neighboring routers.

So I ponied up and got the AirPort Extreme and I am so glad I did.

The AirPort Extreme has amazing signal strength - it also transmits on a couple of wireless channels and frequencies, reducing interference and improving strength of signal.

Even more amazingly, the AirPort Extreme increased my wireless speeds 10x. I was paying for 20 Mbps internet but regularly SpeedTests were showing 2-3 Mbps. After upgrading to the AirPort Extreme my wireless speeds are now regularly 20 Mbps.

Well worth the extra cost if you live in the city or somewhere else with extremely crowded airwaves!

I have been through several routers (Belkin, Cisco/Linksys, DLink) and this by far, was the best choice for me. I was put off by the price, but bit the bullet last week and got it.

I have my iMac, iPhone, Ipad, Apple TV and a HP4650 Color Laserjet printer connected to this Airport Extreme and everything works in perfect harmony.