Apple AirPort Extreme
February 4th, 2007 | by Jason Tomczak
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Average user rating from 11 users |
Spotty disk access
by Paul Weeks on Nov 21st, 2007 at 10:27 AM:
I and LOTS of others are having major problems with disk access with the Airport Extreme. In a nutshell, my base station drops the disk about every hour with the 7.2.1 firmware (latest as of November 07), back revving to 7.1.1 fixed the problem for a few days then it dropped altogether. I've given up using the disk server feature. For wireless and print services it's fine, but not for disk access. Here's a thread on Apple discussion forums. If you're buying this for disk access, beware! Read and be informed as to what you're really buying.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1106671
It's OK
by David Frampton on Oct 7th, 2007 at 6:10 PM:
It's a cheap and feature complete router, but falls short of Apple's usual standards and my expectations.
The first problem is the speed of USB connected hard drives. With a USB external hard drive via gigabit ethernet I only get about 6MB/s writes and 12MB/s reads.
The major problem however, is stability. When I first bought this router I had continuous problems with it dropping the external internet connection. Pulling the power out and plugging it back in again would bring it back to life.
Recent firmware and perhaps other updates have improved this a lot, but I still get the odd drop.
The stability of the connection to the USB hard drive is abysmal however, and has not been improved with any updates. one or other of my macs (running 10.4.10) will loose the mounted hard drive at least every day or two, and then will not reconnect again until either the router or mac is restarted.
Also the setup utility needs to restart the router every time a change is made, and the restart process takes a few minutes, and sometimes the router does not come back up at all, requiring pulling of the power plug. So configuration can take quite some time if you need to experiment a bit.
On the plus side, there really isn't any competition for the feature set at that price, printer sharing has worked great for me, and setting it up on windows was not a hassle. The wireless connection is fast and strong, and after initial problems with interference with our cordless phone setting it to 5.8Ghz has made these problems go away.
Great Wifi
by Justin on Aug 11th, 2007 at 10:19 AM:
Although setting up the hard drive is a little tricky on a PC, overall the performance of this router is outstanding. The range is much better than any router I have ever owned and i'm still just running 802.11g. Be sure that you add the routers ip address (found in the airport utility on the home page) to your firewalls "allowed" list and your hard drives and printers will work perfectly. Overall a great router.
Get it
by Ben on Mar 8th, 2007 at 9:47 AM:
If you are an Apple owner, you need to get this router, the range it provides is amazing. I am having trouble getting multiple connected systems to see the connected hard drive though, and Apple support has not been too helpful.
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A Bit Tricky Thus Far...
by Sam on Dec 31st, 2007 at 1:40 PM: