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I’m thinking of buying an Airport Extreme Base Station:
Apple - AirPort Extreme - Simultaneous dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi base station
I have been through a few wireless routers in the last few years. It has been frustrating to have them go down and need restarting periodically.
I have a 3,000 square foot house and a recording studio out back. There are 3 renters and me in my house using 7 windows computers, 2 iPads, 2 iPhones, 1 Macbook, 1 Andriod phone, a Kindle, and a Playstation 3 all using the wireless network at any given time and I am finding that it may be a bit much for your run-of-the-mill Netgear or Lynksys routers purchased on eBay over the years.
I have actually found a website where one can wipe the software from these devices and install something else to turn them into signal boosters. I may play around with that later because I have a gaggle of them lying around, not necessarily dead but just didn’t satisfy for reliability.
Even though I love my home-built Windows gaming boxes, I also love my Apple products. They seem to do everything right and are made with the best quality. I am expecting this wireless router to be an answer to an irritating problem I have been dealing with for a few years and I am also enamored with the USB plug for an external hard-drive (has anyone else come up with something that cool?).
Any Apple veterans have thoughts on the use of this product in my situation?
Apple - AirPort Extreme - Simultaneous dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi base station
I have been through a few wireless routers in the last few years. It has been frustrating to have them go down and need restarting periodically.
I have a 3,000 square foot house and a recording studio out back. There are 3 renters and me in my house using 7 windows computers, 2 iPads, 2 iPhones, 1 Macbook, 1 Andriod phone, a Kindle, and a Playstation 3 all using the wireless network at any given time and I am finding that it may be a bit much for your run-of-the-mill Netgear or Lynksys routers purchased on eBay over the years.
I have actually found a website where one can wipe the software from these devices and install something else to turn them into signal boosters. I may play around with that later because I have a gaggle of them lying around, not necessarily dead but just didn’t satisfy for reliability.
Even though I love my home-built Windows gaming boxes, I also love my Apple products. They seem to do everything right and are made with the best quality. I am expecting this wireless router to be an answer to an irritating problem I have been dealing with for a few years and I am also enamored with the USB plug for an external hard-drive (has anyone else come up with something that cool?).
Any Apple veterans have thoughts on the use of this product in my situation?