Reviews for AirPort Extreme Base Station

You can't go wrong buying this router. This thing is super easy to set up and has a incredibly huge range!

I've been apple customer for a long time since 1995. Unfortunately I have to start look around... this thing (Airport what ever) drops signal more often than it is up......

I wouldn't recommend this to anyone... But again, apple makes its product that is less compatible even with their own product.

I recently upgraded to an AirPort Extreme from a Linksys router. The Linksys offered around 1 bar (on iPhone) throughout the house, with the AirPort, we can go across the street and still have 2 bars. I definitely recommend this to anyone looking to upgrade from any other router.

I just bought this to replace an old netgear.... never once did i have this issue with the netgear. this thing drops signal more often than it is up......

Apple products are going down the drain slowly.... i wouldn't recommend this to anyone...

I had a Dlink dual band gaming router for 6 years and just stopped performing. I looked into other routers until reading reviews on the Airport Extreme. When I purchased the router and tried setting it up it was not working like i was told by Apple rep. I called Applecare and the rep walked me through a couple of different things to get it working. In the end the unit had to be reset and presto; it worked. I have had it running for a few days now and no loss of wireless connections on any of my devices. I am in a 2900SQFT 2 story home and have the router up stairs. I am running 4 iPhones, 2 iMacs, 2 Xboxes, wireless printer, Majic Jack phone, and Direct TV with no lag or loss of connection now. I am very impressed with the performance of this router. I would have given it 5 stars if the setup would have been easier. Great job on this product! I hope it lasts me as long if not longer than the Dlink router I had.

It's really fast and you really don't notice any other devices using the station in the connectivity, the option to open a guest network is simply great. The design is very "Apple-Like" and the price is fair. But I only gave 4 stars, because there is no modem in it, and I don't understand it. Where's the probleme to build a modem into the station? Maybe it'd push up the price a little bit, but I'd pay it. Now you have to buy a modem (which is not from Apple) and you need more space. That doesn't look very good and for me it's unusual.

Like many of you I'm an Apple fanatic. Yet I'm seriously underwhelmed by the Airport Devices.

The Airport Extreme can't share it's drive as a Time Machine volume (See Apple's article PH4327), or better, the website Pondini .org which actually provides details.

You can connect a printer, but the Airport Extreme not going to add AirPrint (for iPads) to that printer. (Not that this would be hard for Apple)

I returned an Airport Express for this because the 2012 Express kneecapped ethernet at 100mbs/sec (vs GB). I'm reticent about getting a Time Capsule as that has many 2 star reviews mainly complaining that it has poor throughput as a router and the disks fail dismally after ~2 years.

Might as well get a 3rd party NAS for disk sharing. At least those are competitively overpriced. But that makes me wonder - why bother with the Extreme?

The needs more inputs.... this is not Extreme enough.

These days there are multiple computers, game machines, etc.

Therefore I have to use a switch that greatly degrades the quality.

I've been thru the high end versions of Netgear, Trendnet,cisco linksys and Belkin... and sick of them I bought an Airport Extreme and couldn't believe how easy and straight forward it is to set up this baby, I use Wifi Analyzer to monitor my wifi speed when transferring large files from my MacBook pro to my server using 5GHz and open authentication with out broadcasting the SSID and is pretty steady at 450 Mbps within 30ft range and 365 Mbps at 40ft, I stream HD movies from my server while Airplaying to my HDTV with out any delays.
BEST ROUTER YOU CAN BUY WITH NO DOUBT!!!!!!!!!

P.S. after a week I realize that I actually needed a Time Capsule (because you cannot back up wirelessly by plugging an external HDD to the airport extreme) so I exchanged it and it is exactly the same product plus a 2TB HDD

I have really enjoyed and used my Airport Extreme Base station, that is until it died this morning with no ability to resuscitate. Have been using an external drive and printer with easy set up, and was able to set up Time Machine on it. Only wish it was more reliable! This is my second one in 8 years AND now I will have to buy another one. Get Applecare -- I wish I had!