Reviews for AirPort Extreme Base Station

I think it's really stupid there is no stereo jack on the Airport Extreme. The Airport Express has been able to wirelessly play music via AirTunes from the beginning, but somehow the bigger and better Extreme loses this seemingly simple (and very much appreciated!) feature.

Disappointed and feel like I could've skipped this purchase and stuck with a couple Expresses.

46 of 59 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

I work for a computer company we distribute all brands like Cisco, Belkin, Linksys, Netgear, Buffalo, Asus etc. You name it we sell it. I've tried all of them free! The day before yesterday I tried for the millions time another router this time C-net which was by far the worst ever. My company has been trying to distribute Apple products for months but they are very picky on who gets to sell their products. That meant I had to buy it. I own lots of Apple products so I felt save paying that amount of money for an Apple product. But considering I can get any router for free! it was a big leap. To my surprise this AirPort Extreme Base Station worked like nothing I’ve seen before! I feel 1000% sure recommending it to anybody I know or don’t know. This is by far the best router in the market and well worth the price.

Thanks,

46 of 47 people found this useful

Easiest setup I've ever experienced by far when it comes to dealing with a router. Literally plugged everything into it, turned it on then when upstairs to run the setup on my iMac and made about 2 mouse clicks before everything was setup and running smoothly. Took me longer to remove from box and pull off the plastic than it did to set up with my Mac.

19 of 19 people found this useful

Amazing since day one, this is one of the most powerful and most efficient routers that I have ever owned or used. Well worth the price, this amazing device has not failed me once - honest! I can't believe how fast everything is on my huge network which, to give you an idea, contains: an Xbox 360, Apple TV, Blu-Ray players streaming Netflix, two desktop computers, 3 laptops, 4 iPod Touches and an iPad. Even with ALL of those devices working at once, this device never ceases to amaze me. Highly recommended. On a side note, I am an IT Manager and know what I'm dealing with here!

43 of 44 people found this useful

So simple to set up. Within minutes I had a complete wireless network in my apartment. I also like the fact I was able to hook up my external HD with 955 movies right to it. Makes watching them on Apple tv so much easier. Thanks apple you all a great

23 of 24 people found this useful

I bought the unit to replace an older AirPort Express and found it as easy as the last unit to set-up. With in a matter of just a few minutes I had this item out of box, plugged in and working. I use this item to wirelessly broadcast DSL internet through my house, as well as share my laser printer with others. My only con is the not, so cheap price, as I see other routers that are less money, but I stuck with the item I knew would be easy to set-up. Also the newest version of the AirPort Utility is buggy, so until Apple provides another update I would stick to an older version.

10 of 11 people found this useful

I just purchased Airport extreme today I was skeptical that there would be any difference in wifi speed across my devices and all i can say is wow what a difference I currently have 3 mac computers 2 iPhones a iPad and apple tv set up on it all devices work extremely well at the same time with airport extreme. I noticed the biggest difference with Apple TV I used to have to a a minute or two before the movie would start not any more its instant play and the picture quality is crystal clear!!! Buy it!!!!!!!!

15 of 16 people found this useful

A couple of months ago, my original AirPort Extreme died after five faithful years of service. I bought it when I purchased one of the first MacBook Pros, which unfortunately shipped with a "g" WiFi chip on the logic board. Because I had never had a problem with my original AirPort Extreme, I bought a new replacement: What a mistake! Although Apple claims that the AirPort extreme supports the "g" chip, I've had nothing but problems trying to maintain an Internet and mail connection. In fact, I have to re-boot the unit at least once a week! In addition, the newer AirPort Extreme forces the user to set-up a "guest account." There is no way to disconnect it. Apple would do well to try to improve the quality of its existing technologies, rather than shoving the so-called "newest and greatest" stuff down the throats of its faithful. My MacBook Pro is soon headed for the trash can because Apple is following the Microsoft-Intel strategy of making its computers obsolete by requiring greater chip and equipment requirements to run its software. Apple appears to be leaving its once faithful customers behind: A strategy that will eventually come back to haunt them.

67 of 132 people found this useful