Customer Rating: 
Summary: Apple Airport Extreme Base Station
Comment: The item was shipped from Amazon. It arrived, plugged it in, followed instructions, and never got light to come on (green)indicating that is was operational. I called Amazon and Apple, was told had to take it to an Apple "genius" in an Apple Store to verify it was inoperative to get a new one. Had to make appointment to see "genius", no appts until following day. So my time, multiple phone calls, my gas money to get replacement. Amazon should have authorized return to them overnight and sent me one next day! Intolerable!
Also not intuitive how to set up a windows pc to operate through this router, especially getting a network printer to operate from windows pc. Had to download another program (Bonjour) from Apple to accomplish this......another phone call to Apple.
Operationally, once got a functional unit, and once all pcs and macs connected wirelessly, worked fine. Good reception all over my house, but not exceptional. My linksys with 802B had better coverage than this 802N unit.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A router that works as advertised
Comment: Overall I'm satisfied with the router so far, but here is my detailed review:
My network setup is as follows:
Cable modem->Linux firewall/router->switch with 3 computers connected->USR wireless G router->another desktop, a Macbook and a Nokia E61i.
The first 3 computers have static IP addresses, along with the USR8054 router. For simplicity I set the wireless router to DHCP for the desktop, Macbook and the Nokia. This means a double NAT, but everything was working just fine, no connection problems whatsoever, no dropped signals!
However, I decided to use some backup drive for the Macbook which connects wireless, and a backup over a G connection takes a really long time. Here, the nightmare started:
I got a Belkin wireless N, it's a new product and it has a USB port for network storage. It's also advertised to work both with MAC and PC, so it seemed to be the perfect choice. After connecting everything, I was not able to make the Macbook recognize the storage, in Windows XP it was working fine, but the transfer to the USB drive was extremely slow, maybe as slow as the wireless connection if not slower...So, back it went, I got the Linksys WRT350. On the specs, it seemed OK, but no network storage port, which I decided to give up...I connected everything and it worked fine, it got a little hot, but I put it on some 1.5" spacers. Anyway, I thought this was the one, but my Nokia phone would not connect! The router was setup to be backwards compatible with B and G! When setting up to G only, the phone would see it and connect. So, no luck with the Linksys either!
Next was the DLink DIR 655, a router with great features, a lot of options, the most from all routers I tried. I setup everything, computers were running fine, but my Nokia didn't see the connection again! I setup the router on G only, and it worked, but again, this was supposed to be compatible with B and G!
I called Dlink, and they told me my phone is not compatible with the router! That's kind of dumb, as it works with G only.
I forgot to mention that I updated the firmware to the latest version on all routers.
So, very disappointed, I decided to get the Airport Extreme. I got a very good price from fonzhende1, brand new item, sealed! Recommended!!!
This took the longest time to configure, due to my network setup and due to the fact that it's the only router complaining about double NAT! I think it would still work, and there is a setting to make it stop complaining about network errors, but I went ahead trying to "make it happy". So, I had to set it up as a bridge, and I had to assign static IP addresses to the desktop, Macbook and Nokia, but all of them work just fine! The only drawback with the bridge setup is that I don't get Gigabit transfer between the desktop and Macbook, but I might change this in the future. The whole thing with the double NAT, is that all computers connected to that router would work at maximum speed (Gigabit) , while the rest would work at 100MB/sec.
Apple has some different settings, which I will not describe here, but the router has to be accessed through Airport application, not through browser like the other ones. Also, advanced features like guest access are missing.
I hooked up a USB drive and I was able to see it under both Mac and Windows, but I wasn't able to use Time Machine yet. It might be possible, but the drive needs to be formated apparently, and I didn't have time to give it a try. I might update the review in the future, about Time Machine setup, etc.
Overall, I am satisfied with the router, it does what it says, not like the other ones, which is really frustrating. I give it only 4 stars, because of missing advanced features.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Apple Airport Extreme Base Station (gigabit)
Comment: I purchased one of these from the Apple Store locally last week. Brought it home and set it up from the new Macbook all seemed well. (I specifically purchased this for the usb print and hard drive abilities and mac and win support) All was well on the Mac and then for the XP SP3 machines, all well except printing. What no printing and no real help or suggestions. My own troubleshooting answered it, for whatever reason the included airport extreme cd does not correctly install Bonjour for Windows (required for printing), and you will not get errors during the install just no printing. SOLUTION: Download Bonjour for Windows from Apple site run and choose to remove Bonjour and after that completes re-run and all is well.
The one windows printing glitch is the difference in 4 star vs. 5 star rating.
This is a great solid router for mixed environment with printing and hard drive abilities. Worth the $180.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
Comment: Looking forward to my first Mac Computer and to have a wireless set up. Originally purchased it to make a new compter in my art room wireless... only to find out that I had to buy more stuff...I sent that computer back. So I really haven't tested out the airport to the full. That is why I have rated it 4 stars. But all in all..It was easy to install. And even though I had purchased it used. Apple customer srevice was very helpful. I needed help getting the amber light to go green. To know in the future I will be getting that level of customer service is comforting. Especially.... in this day of "overseas" help.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Seagate Picky
Comment: Sets up beautifully and intuitively. Had trouble hooking up a Seagate 1T external drive. Western Digital passport worked beautifully. Once I swapped the Seagate for a 1T Lacie, all was well. The Lacie also let me format part of the drive for our Mac and part for the PC. Love my wireless network now.
Summary: Apple Airport Extreme Base Station
Comment: The item was shipped from Amazon. It arrived, plugged it in, followed instructions, and never got light to come on (green)indicating that is was operational. I called Amazon and Apple, was told had to take it to an Apple "genius" in an Apple Store to verify it was inoperative to get a new one. Had to make appointment to see "genius", no appts until following day. So my time, multiple phone calls, my gas money to get replacement. Amazon should have authorized return to them overnight and sent me one next day! Intolerable!
Also not intuitive how to set up a windows pc to operate through this router, especially getting a network printer to operate from windows pc. Had to download another program (Bonjour) from Apple to accomplish this......another phone call to Apple.
Operationally, once got a functional unit, and once all pcs and macs connected wirelessly, worked fine. Good reception all over my house, but not exceptional. My linksys with 802B had better coverage than this 802N unit.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A router that works as advertised
Comment: Overall I'm satisfied with the router so far, but here is my detailed review:
My network setup is as follows:
Cable modem->Linux firewall/router->switch with 3 computers connected->USR wireless G router->another desktop, a Macbook and a Nokia E61i.
The first 3 computers have static IP addresses, along with the USR8054 router. For simplicity I set the wireless router to DHCP for the desktop, Macbook and the Nokia. This means a double NAT, but everything was working just fine, no connection problems whatsoever, no dropped signals!
However, I decided to use some backup drive for the Macbook which connects wireless, and a backup over a G connection takes a really long time. Here, the nightmare started:
I got a Belkin wireless N, it's a new product and it has a USB port for network storage. It's also advertised to work both with MAC and PC, so it seemed to be the perfect choice. After connecting everything, I was not able to make the Macbook recognize the storage, in Windows XP it was working fine, but the transfer to the USB drive was extremely slow, maybe as slow as the wireless connection if not slower...So, back it went, I got the Linksys WRT350. On the specs, it seemed OK, but no network storage port, which I decided to give up...I connected everything and it worked fine, it got a little hot, but I put it on some 1.5" spacers. Anyway, I thought this was the one, but my Nokia phone would not connect! The router was setup to be backwards compatible with B and G! When setting up to G only, the phone would see it and connect. So, no luck with the Linksys either!
Next was the DLink DIR 655, a router with great features, a lot of options, the most from all routers I tried. I setup everything, computers were running fine, but my Nokia didn't see the connection again! I setup the router on G only, and it worked, but again, this was supposed to be compatible with B and G!
I called Dlink, and they told me my phone is not compatible with the router! That's kind of dumb, as it works with G only.
I forgot to mention that I updated the firmware to the latest version on all routers.
So, very disappointed, I decided to get the Airport Extreme. I got a very good price from fonzhende1, brand new item, sealed! Recommended!!!
This took the longest time to configure, due to my network setup and due to the fact that it's the only router complaining about double NAT! I think it would still work, and there is a setting to make it stop complaining about network errors, but I went ahead trying to "make it happy". So, I had to set it up as a bridge, and I had to assign static IP addresses to the desktop, Macbook and Nokia, but all of them work just fine! The only drawback with the bridge setup is that I don't get Gigabit transfer between the desktop and Macbook, but I might change this in the future. The whole thing with the double NAT, is that all computers connected to that router would work at maximum speed (Gigabit) , while the rest would work at 100MB/sec.
Apple has some different settings, which I will not describe here, but the router has to be accessed through Airport application, not through browser like the other ones. Also, advanced features like guest access are missing.
I hooked up a USB drive and I was able to see it under both Mac and Windows, but I wasn't able to use Time Machine yet. It might be possible, but the drive needs to be formated apparently, and I didn't have time to give it a try. I might update the review in the future, about Time Machine setup, etc.
Overall, I am satisfied with the router, it does what it says, not like the other ones, which is really frustrating. I give it only 4 stars, because of missing advanced features.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Apple Airport Extreme Base Station (gigabit)
Comment: I purchased one of these from the Apple Store locally last week. Brought it home and set it up from the new Macbook all seemed well. (I specifically purchased this for the usb print and hard drive abilities and mac and win support) All was well on the Mac and then for the XP SP3 machines, all well except printing. What no printing and no real help or suggestions. My own troubleshooting answered it, for whatever reason the included airport extreme cd does not correctly install Bonjour for Windows (required for printing), and you will not get errors during the install just no printing. SOLUTION: Download Bonjour for Windows from Apple site run and choose to remove Bonjour and after that completes re-run and all is well.
The one windows printing glitch is the difference in 4 star vs. 5 star rating.
This is a great solid router for mixed environment with printing and hard drive abilities. Worth the $180.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
Comment: Looking forward to my first Mac Computer and to have a wireless set up. Originally purchased it to make a new compter in my art room wireless... only to find out that I had to buy more stuff...I sent that computer back. So I really haven't tested out the airport to the full. That is why I have rated it 4 stars. But all in all..It was easy to install. And even though I had purchased it used. Apple customer srevice was very helpful. I needed help getting the amber light to go green. To know in the future I will be getting that level of customer service is comforting. Especially.... in this day of "overseas" help.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Seagate Picky
Comment: Sets up beautifully and intuitively. Had trouble hooking up a Seagate 1T external drive. Western Digital passport worked beautifully. Once I swapped the Seagate for a 1T Lacie, all was well. The Lacie also let me format part of the drive for our Mac and part for the PC. Love my wireless network now.
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