AirPort Extreme Base Station
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AirPort Extreme Base Station
Simply excellent!
Written by MM from MORPETH
06-Nov-2009
Have had a number of wireless base stations and none had enough range for my house apart from my BT HomeHub which was streets ahead of the rest. I was worried therefore that the AEBS would be like the other routers, however in practice I've found it is at least as good as the HomeHub in terms of wireless and is certainly way ahead of anything else.
A USB drive attached to this works perfectly with Time Machine, configuration is dead easy with the AirPort utility and it even sends logs to my Linux box with no problem at all. My iPhone and two Macs connect to it very quickly and it wakes up my Macs automatically to access other services when required.
Disk performance is also very reasonable - it managed to do a 64Gb initial Time Machine backup in a little over 2 hours so I can't really complain!
It uses just 7w, which whilst slightly more than the HomeHub at 4w, is still pretty good when you consider that it's got two radios.
My advice is to buy it - yes it's relatively expensive, but you do get what you pay for.....75 of 76 people found this useful
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