Customer Rating: 
Summary: This is the way that hardware should work
Comment: I'm very happy with this device. Solved lot of problems generated by a d-link 655 that is now out of use.
I purchased a second one to increase the coverage in my property.
The installation can't be more easy. It's different from all routers out there, but it's very, very easy.
Coverage is very good and speed is great. Good product, like everything from Apple.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great features, great performance, easy setup
Comment: Easy to set up, not intrusive, feature-set comparable (in some cases, better) than most stock firmwares from the likes of linksys, etc. I do wish there was an option to trigger WOL over the LAN but, aside from that, unit is sitting nicely in our media closet with our printer attached and shared over the network. Performance over cat 5e is excellent.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't waste your money if you are running intel Macs and Leopard 10.5 up
Comment: Junk on intel Macs
Written by GW from vallejo
SHAME SHAME SHAME ON APPLE WITH THIS FLUB!
I am typing this review on my living room floor with the ethernet cable swapped from the back of the Tivo box and into my MB Pro to the Airport Extreme. Thats how confident I am that it will stay wirelessly connect to either my new Intel macs. It, or they, won't stay wirelessly connected. EVER.
When you spend double on an over marketed Apple product that whose generic equivalent you could purchase at Fry's for half the cost, not to mention the wasted Sundays standing in line at the overcrowded Apple store for return, then Steve Jobs needs to have his Olympic Golf Course membership terminated, fire the wireless R&D team and demote everyone in quality control. Oh, and pay those Chinese workers a little more and they might not spend their off time selling fake Iphones on eBay.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Piece of Cr-Apple!
Comment: OK, so I bought the extreme because the wife was experiencing very slow download speeds with the Linksys wireless router and Apple promised lightning fast speed/downloads. The extreme delivers when it works, no doubt. I own a Macbook Pro and the set up was easy. I experienced similar problems with the wireless network randomly dropping. I would wake up in the morning and it would be off, so I would replug it and it would work for an unknown period of time before it dropped again. I returned it twice to the Apple store and they gave me another one (total of 3). I've replaced everything: the DSL modem, ethernet cable, phone cord to the DSL modem, I even had the Road Runner guys come to my house to check for faulty wiring within the walls. I love Apple products, but this has caused me more heartache and wasted hours than I want to admit.
It works fine with ethernet, but as other reviews mention, the point is to be wireless! I scoured through the discussion forums and tried every reset known to man to get this thing to work. No joy. So now it sits there next to my modem like a big white paper weight-how depressing.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Router I've ever owned.
Comment: I'm not a novice. I know a lot about routers and how they work. I'm also familiar with their limitations, and I can honestly say that this is the best consumer router I've ever used.
I do a lot of downloading with bittorrent clients and this is the first router I've used that allows me to download wirelessly without killing the wifi connection to the other computers in the house, as well as my own ability to browse. Seriously - I've got Azureus crankin' at full speed and I can still enjoy Youtube. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, trust me - that's good. If you do know what I'm talking about, then you know that this is a remarkable product.
People are complaining about compatibility with PC's/Windows, saying that they just can't connect at all. I'd bet money on the fact that this is because they have the Airport set to use WPA2 only, and their PC is probably only set up to use WPA1 - whether it be the Windows wireless settings or the driver/settings for their wireless adapter itself. This can be solved by either updating Windows and/or your wireless driver and settings, or by simply configuring the airport to use both WPA1 and WPA2 (it's a choice in a dropdown menu in the Airport utility). I run Windows via Boot Camp on my MacBook and WPA2 wouldn't work (in Windows) until I upgraded to SP3.
Oh yeah - and the shared printer set-up? Simple and Fast. Awesome.
I feel like a fool for putting off buying the Extreme. Like everyone else, for years I was reluctant to drop this much money on a router. After using it for several months now, I can honestly say it was money well-spent. Highly recommended.
Summary: This is the way that hardware should work
Comment: I'm very happy with this device. Solved lot of problems generated by a d-link 655 that is now out of use.
I purchased a second one to increase the coverage in my property.
The installation can't be more easy. It's different from all routers out there, but it's very, very easy.
Coverage is very good and speed is great. Good product, like everything from Apple.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great features, great performance, easy setup
Comment: Easy to set up, not intrusive, feature-set comparable (in some cases, better) than most stock firmwares from the likes of linksys, etc. I do wish there was an option to trigger WOL over the LAN but, aside from that, unit is sitting nicely in our media closet with our printer attached and shared over the network. Performance over cat 5e is excellent.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't waste your money if you are running intel Macs and Leopard 10.5 up
Comment: Junk on intel Macs
Written by GW from vallejo
SHAME SHAME SHAME ON APPLE WITH THIS FLUB!
I am typing this review on my living room floor with the ethernet cable swapped from the back of the Tivo box and into my MB Pro to the Airport Extreme. Thats how confident I am that it will stay wirelessly connect to either my new Intel macs. It, or they, won't stay wirelessly connected. EVER.
When you spend double on an over marketed Apple product that whose generic equivalent you could purchase at Fry's for half the cost, not to mention the wasted Sundays standing in line at the overcrowded Apple store for return, then Steve Jobs needs to have his Olympic Golf Course membership terminated, fire the wireless R&D team and demote everyone in quality control. Oh, and pay those Chinese workers a little more and they might not spend their off time selling fake Iphones on eBay.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Piece of Cr-Apple!
Comment: OK, so I bought the extreme because the wife was experiencing very slow download speeds with the Linksys wireless router and Apple promised lightning fast speed/downloads. The extreme delivers when it works, no doubt. I own a Macbook Pro and the set up was easy. I experienced similar problems with the wireless network randomly dropping. I would wake up in the morning and it would be off, so I would replug it and it would work for an unknown period of time before it dropped again. I returned it twice to the Apple store and they gave me another one (total of 3). I've replaced everything: the DSL modem, ethernet cable, phone cord to the DSL modem, I even had the Road Runner guys come to my house to check for faulty wiring within the walls. I love Apple products, but this has caused me more heartache and wasted hours than I want to admit.
It works fine with ethernet, but as other reviews mention, the point is to be wireless! I scoured through the discussion forums and tried every reset known to man to get this thing to work. No joy. So now it sits there next to my modem like a big white paper weight-how depressing.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Router I've ever owned.
Comment: I'm not a novice. I know a lot about routers and how they work. I'm also familiar with their limitations, and I can honestly say that this is the best consumer router I've ever used.
I do a lot of downloading with bittorrent clients and this is the first router I've used that allows me to download wirelessly without killing the wifi connection to the other computers in the house, as well as my own ability to browse. Seriously - I've got Azureus crankin' at full speed and I can still enjoy Youtube. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, trust me - that's good. If you do know what I'm talking about, then you know that this is a remarkable product.
People are complaining about compatibility with PC's/Windows, saying that they just can't connect at all. I'd bet money on the fact that this is because they have the Airport set to use WPA2 only, and their PC is probably only set up to use WPA1 - whether it be the Windows wireless settings or the driver/settings for their wireless adapter itself. This can be solved by either updating Windows and/or your wireless driver and settings, or by simply configuring the airport to use both WPA1 and WPA2 (it's a choice in a dropdown menu in the Airport utility). I run Windows via Boot Camp on my MacBook and WPA2 wouldn't work (in Windows) until I upgraded to SP3.
Oh yeah - and the shared printer set-up? Simple and Fast. Awesome.
I feel like a fool for putting off buying the Extreme. Like everyone else, for years I was reluctant to drop this much money on a router. After using it for several months now, I can honestly say it was money well-spent. Highly recommended.
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