Reviews for AirPort Extreme Base Station

went from linksys to airport what a difference. lightning fast and so easy to set up!! I only will buy Apple products! PC is a waste of time and money and windows..... fugettaboutit!!

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 tried 2 other brands in the $40 to $50 range. The first one needed reset daily, and the 2nd caused all sorts of delays and hang-ups using AirPlay (I couldn't get music to stream). I have AT&T U-verse or home Internet, which is supposed to be fast. I loved when I powered up the AirPlay, and connected my IPAD - It walked me through it! Now I'm pushing Pandora over Airplay, while watching Netflix, and push my home network really hard. It doesn't flinsh. I haven't played with any advanced network features and really don't care to. Nothing's more important that reliability and speed.

I tried 2 Cisco routers - E4200 and E4500. They looked really cool but the speeds were highly inconsistent with both these routers. Bought the AirPort Extreme and have it for over a month now ... I absolutely love it! Setup was a breeze and the speeds are phenomenal. Highly recommended!!

I highly recommend it.

I am a fairly tec savy person, this router took an abnormaly long amount of time to set up, especialy to print, I set up a guest network and a main network, at first I had the guest network limited to 48 hours but after it kept disconnecting (even on the main network) after a few hours. I changed it to always on, but both networks kept droping the internet after a few hours of use. I had to connect to the other network to continue my work (it only takes a matter of a minute or so to change networks, but it is anoying to always connect to a new network when the one i'm on should work.) When this router worked it worked well, and provided a fairly fast connection, and the features it has are great like wireless printing from any room in the house. But it died after only 18 months of use and at $180 is extremely over priced it is now only $160 but still too expensive so I pluged my older d-link 655 in and have not had any dropped connections so it was not my internet.

Even the most substandard routers available support QOS. If I want to prioritize my network traffic to favor my Mac over iOS devices, tough luck. For a company that usually goes out of the way to make sure their products are competitive, and comparable, feature-wise, with their competitors, this is disappointing. Why would you exclude something so basic to every other router currently made. Home networks connect so many different types of devices nowadays, and this makes QOS essential. After all, I really don't think my thermostat needs the same priority as my Mac or iPhone. Apple has enjoyed my business on an almost exclusive level for years now. This will cease to be the case if they cannot support basic network protocols. How hard could it be?

I bought the AirPort Extreme because it has great reviews and was sold as easy to setup and install. I had my share of problems trying to get the thing running and finally came up with a screen that had me restart my modem which took care of the problem, but it took me over an hour to get to the point where I could test it out. I have an old laptop PC that has a built in "g" wireless set up and it works flawlessly with the AirPort Extreme. I set up my wife's older Ipod Touch and it also works great anywhere in the house. The only reason I didn't give it five stars was due to the lengthy intall time. It was worth the price and I recommend buying it if you want to have a wireless network in the house.

love that you can setup a guest network, easiest setup possible...great product