Reviews for AirPort Extreme Base Station

I bought the airport extreme, expecting it to replace my $80 router that I had. the extreme went about half the distance of my old router and so I purchased the airport express to extend the wireless network but still couldn't reach the distance of my old $80 netgear router. Also, it has a very weak signal unless you are in the same room of it. So basically spent $300 on two routers that don't even withstand against the netgear router.

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.

Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't , very frustrated , removed and placed on the shelf , now I know what it will do at any given moment ,nothing,
I can cope with that.......................

I bought the Airport Extreme in January 2012 to replace my Netgear router, which was constantly needing to be reset. After six months of using the Airport Extreme, it stopped working. No lights come on anymore, and no connection for my wireless products. I'm going to return it to the local Apple store as soon as I get a chance. I hooked up my $30 Netgear router, and thankfully it's working. I'm very disappointed in my Airport Extreme. For the money, it should last forever, not six months. P.S. My husband just returned his iPad 3 for the third time. What's happening to Apple????

AirPort Extremely slow and bad at multi tasking and horrible range! Recently made a switch from Linksys E3000 was a mistake, the E3000 handled all 5 phones and all 5 computers all through out the house no matter where you were with blazing fast speed! When we switched to the airport extreme I could barely download of watch videos on the internet in the back end of the house!!!! Dont buy if you need something with range, because this doesnt have it at all!!

Over-priced paper weight of a router. Wanted to like it but it's slower than a no-name router I used to have that was 1/4 the price of this. On the rare occasion when it does work, it's either so slow you can't use it or it will soon drop out completely. I bought this out of misplaced faith in Apple products but I will never buy another one based on my experience with this one.

Fine at 5.0 GHz but for 2.4GHz (iphone) covered far less than 3 year old linksys wireless router

The airport extreme has been a complete waste of money. Despite the promise that it offers extended range and reliable internet connection it offers neither.

The BT home hub which it has replaced (I will be swapping back) offers better connectivity and a longer wifi range! The airport extreme is utterly useless, it keeps cutting out and covers half the area that the previous hub did.

This is all despite being promised in more than one apple store and by reading the spec that this would improve my wifi range and connection.

I have tested the speed that the extreme offers through its wifi connection and compared it with the BT version and it doesn't even come close a whole 4meg slower.

A useless gadget DO NOT BUY!!

Just received the "easy to set up" Airport Extreme and the very first thing I found was the instructions don't match the computer's options. Finally figured out how to establish a connection but nothing worked. Okay, I'm not the brightest network administrator (on the largest network in the country) so I called Apple support. With a little guidance I was connected; for almost two minutes. My Mac Pro could connect but if my son's IMac got on line it trashed the wireless network. Back on the phone to apple support and after an hour of fiddling around the tech admitted he hadn't a clue what was wrong so I was given to the head technician. Another hour later this tech admitted he couldn't figure it out so he concludes it is my fault, or AT&T's fault, or possibly the devil's fault even though every other wireless I have used on the same router/modem has worked fine. So apparently if you live in Indiana, use AT&T, and only have 30 years of network experience you shouldn't buy this device. If, however you are a average joe working for any small business in any other state, well; this is the device for you. I guess I'll just have to move to Texas.