Reviews for AirPort Extreme Base Station

I had big time issues using a cisco router & cisco access point, as soon as I bought airport extremes all issues are gone, easy to set up, pretty nice looking piece of equipment & pretty reliable, I would not think too much, if you are in the need of a router or access point I strongly recommend airport extreme

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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?

38 of 50 people found this useful

Setup was quick and painless. Nice integration with all Apple products at home. Flawless and very nice addition to our home network. I would recommend this product to anyone.

29 of 32 people found this useful

I have really liked the product overall since I got it 3 months ago. It was easy to setup and update.
But last month I got a newer ReadyNAS NV+ to go with my old ReadyNAS NV. I have been setting it up to do some more serious work and was checking the logs when I noticed hundreds of bad packets, TCP retransmits, and unrecovered TCP retransmits. Previously I had never had error problems, but cable will go bad as will switches.

I went ordered new Cat 6 cables and then Cat 6a cables to see if they made a difference. There seemed to be some improvement, but the errors kept coming.
I was able to connect each unit directly to my computer with no problems. Then I put each unit with a static IP connected to my Procurve 1400 switch hooked directly to my computer and got no errors. So the Airport Extreme is the bottleneck causing the errors in my network. I don't really know why yet. But this seems to be pretty shoddy for a newer router.

39 of 52 people found this useful

With a price tag of $179.99, I was hesitant to buy this router. I love having the best of things, but wasn't sure how the range of this router would compare to a high end Linksys router. My computer is on the top floor of my two story house in one corner and my Smart TV, PS3, and Apple TV are on the 1st floor in an opposite corner. With the Linksys Dual-Band N router I was receiving 70% signal on those devices. After I gave in and bought the Apple Airport Extreme, the connection went up to 75%. This was not a huge increase, but it showed me the Apple router has just as good a range, (if not better), than Linksys. I decided to keep the Apple router because it is easy to use, looks great, and I was able to get the Airpot Express to extend my range. Only with the Apple router can you use the Airport Express as an extender. After connecting the Express my signal on all my devices downstairs are at 100%.

27 of 28 people found this useful

This router has been a solid performer with no problems (or restarts) for nearly a year. Sure, there are other routers with additional features or greater throughput, but for most people this does everything you need it to do and then some. Our household is primarily Apple computers, so it seemed like a good fit when updating from a terrible belkin router. Living near an apartment complex loaded with dozens of 2.4 routers, the 5Ghz band was the major selling point for me. I gave it 4 stars not because of it's functionality or reliability , but because the setup and configuration (via airport utility) are not on par with the user-centric approach Apple is known for. I had no problems setting up the router, but other vendors do offer easier setup and configuration, but there is definitely room for improvement...especially from Apple.

32 of 38 people found this useful

the airport is good i love it but it get's really hot that is the only thing that i don't like why does it get so hot

34 of 42 people found this useful

I purchased the airpot extreme with my iMac in January of 201 and I never expected it to work so well! I purchased an earlier generation of the airport years ago and had all kinds of issues. This generation has worked even better than I could ever have expected on all floors of my house. My iMac, iPod and printer all work seamlessly. My friends and family use it when visiting and they love it too.. I even have my Ti-Vo and an at&t micro-cell for my cell phone hooked up to it too. Simple set-up, great security and works as advertised.

28 of 30 people found this useful

I received my Airport Extreme today. It took me less than 15 minutes to get it all set up and everything up and running without issue. 1) Open box 2) disconnect junky Belkin 3) connect Apple product 4) Run Utility 5) admire a company that knows technology and how to please customers.

Make your life easy. Get this Router. Your time and money are worth more. Don't waste it on pretender companies making pretender products!

(P.S. - Apple knows how to play nice with other products, but not so much the other way around. Everything runs better on/with their products, even PC-based products)

30 of 35 people found this useful