Reviews for AirPort Extreme Base Station

Great wifi router. Connections are very fast, stable and offer good range. I have had mine for over a year and I have only had to reboot it twice in that entire time after power interruptions.

For the features it offers I would give it full marks however I do think not including an audio out port to enable airplay streaming was a mistake on Apples part. I feel like despite owning the Airport Extreme and 2 Airport Express devices, I still need one more Airport Express to complete my set up.

I have been having problems for over a year in terms of poor connection throughout my house. I got the Lynksys E4200 before and I still was having problems with range. In relation to speed I've always gotten about a 1/3 or a 1/4 of the promised speed....... so I have been paying for 100Mbps downloads but on wifi I've only been getting about 20-21 Mbps. The first speed test I did with the AirPort Extreme gave me 56.88Mbps on wifi and the furthest computer from the router wich didn't even get a signal before is now getting 39-44 Mbps speeds and I'm getting 14.4 Mbps on iPhone and about 17-20 Mbps speed on iPad at the furthest pont in my house. In short it more than doubled my speed and improved the range easily by 50% or more.

We just got this product today, this is amazing-right out of the box- set up was a breeze, easy to hook up the wires (power). I know it's soon but, the pages load so fast and everything in my MacPro, and iPhone's ( mines and wife) are so fast now. I still have to hook up our external drive, but I guess we wont have a problem. Awesome product, I would recommend it without even blinking. Good day.

After using Linksys and Netgear routers for many years, our connection kept dropping. I read the reviews of the Airport Extreme and since we have two Macs, an iPad and an iPhone in addition to one PC that I use for my embroidery machine, I decided that Apple was the way to go. I've never regretted that decision. Since we bought the Extreme, we have not dropped our Internet connection once! It's a keeper!

Bought it after Thanksgiving 2011. Setup 2 macbook pro 13", 1 PC, two iPad2, 3 iPhones and one Nokia cell phone in 15 mins. Anyone should be able to put your own network without any issue. The range of this thing is amazing!! Also being able to support 50 users at the same time is bonus (although only 7 of us living together). We are buying another one for our small office of 11 staffs. Extra bonus on able to share one printer/hard drive. Thanks Apple for such wonderful product.

For the price, I expected longevity. Not so with this product. After 1.5 years (not long for an Apple product), the product simply shut down and stopped working. When taken to Genius bar, the genius simply offered to sell me a new one. High price + lack of longevity = an insulting combination. I replaced it with a Belkin that does the same thing for a fraction of the price.

This is the first review I've written on this site, and I have to say that the greatness of this product made me do it.
I have always had wifi issues living in an apartment... dropped signal, loss of speed, unreliable network, and going through several routers by the big router companies did nothing to fix the issue.

Since getting this wonderful gadget, my mind has been put to ease as the signal is stronger than it ever has been, no drops ever, and no disconnects. Now that ethernet cable running through the house suddenly seems redundant!

Thank you Apple for an amazing router, which is made even better by sharing an external hard drive of photos through it! (NOTE: Must be in FAT32 or HFS+ file system.... NTFS is not supported)

Like everyone ive been plauged with router problems from all the major companies. So instead of accepting the daily reset to get my old router to work i got this. It was pretty simple to setup and was up and running on all my devices in about 20 min. Ive had it for about 2 months and ive only had to reset t once, and i dont even think it was the actual problem. All my speeds have pretty much doubled. Yes i know my old router was 2 years old and this was a big upgrade but my download speeds are insane. I can now stream HD in Netflix where i couldnt before. I am an apple fanboy and love apple products but trust me if this didnt work i would have moved on. This is expensive but it is definately worth not having to reset it multiple times a day And with it being dual band it should last a long time. If you want a solid fast and reliable Router this is the way to go. Don't accept the horrible products other company's put out.

Hardware warranty 12 months. Completely dead after 13 months. Won't even turn on. I just have to buy a new router. Won't be throwing another $170 down the drain on this piece.