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Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
The sleek, easy-to-use AirPort Extreme Base Station with simultaneous dual-band support is the perfect wireless access point for home, school or small business. It offers fast, 802.11n Wi-Fi access for Mac computers, PCs and Wi-Fi devices such as iPhone, iPod touch and Apple TV.
Connect your DSL or cable modem to the AirPort Extreme Base Station, then quickly set it up with the easy-to-use AirPort Utility, which is available as download for both Mac OS X and Windows. In minutes, you and up to 50 others can use your Mac computers or PCs to surf the web, stream video, share photos and more without wires.
For maximum range and compatibility, AirPort Extreme works simultaneously on both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, allowing all the devices on the network to use the most efficient band automatically. It uses the latest 802.11n wireless technology, so you can enjoy up to five times the Wi-Fi performance and up to twice the range of 802.11g wireless networks.
Set up a separate Wi-Fi network with a separate password for your visitors. Simply enable the guest networking feature, and your guests can use the Internet but can’t access other parts of your private network, such as your computers, printers and attached hard drives.
Have several computers in your home or office but only one printer? No problem. Just connect a compatible printer to the USB port on the AirPort Extreme Base Station, and the printer instantly becomes available to all the computers (Mac and PC) on your wireless or wired network.
You can share an external USB hard drive over your wireless and wired networks by simply connecting it to the USB port on your AirPort Extreme Base Station. Called AirPort Disk, this feature is perfect for sharing files and more. If you’re a MobileMe member using a Mac with Mac OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard, you can even access the files on the drive over the Internet.
Rest easy AirPort Extreme takes strong measures to prevent unauthorised intrusion into your wireless network. It offers a built-in firewall and supports industry-standard encryption technologies including WPA/WPA2 and 128-bit WEP. Yet it’s still easy for authorised users to connect to the base station, thanks to its simple set-up utility and powerful access controls.
AirPort Extreme works with Mac computers, PCs, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Apple TV and virtually all 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi wireless devices all at the same time.
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15 of 15(100%)customers would recommend this product.
Customer Reviews for Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
Review 1 for Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
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A very helpful product
Date:February 18, 2012
Written By: Theodore
From: Ohio
Owned this Product for: 0-3 Months
Level of Expertise: Average
Pros: size, performs well, Web Interface, Good Signal
Cons: Setup Wizard
This was recommended by a cousin and it works wonderful. I had to have someone help me set it up since this was on DSL. If you have cable this product will set it self up. Thanks for selling a good product.
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Review 2 for Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
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Airport Extreme
Date:January 18, 2012
Written By: LAer
From: Alabama
Owned this Product for: 0-3 Months
Level of Expertise: Good
Pros: size, performs well, easy to setup
The Aiport Extreme worked as advertised. Easy setup.
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Review 3 for Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
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Awesome
Date:January 7, 2012
Written By: Bucwild
From: Atlanta, GA
Owned this Product for: 0-3 Months
Level of Expertise: Average
Pros: size, design, Good Signal
It was a gift to my husband and he loves it! We are a Mac family and we love all the products.
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Review 4 for Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
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Router for dummeies
Date:December 31, 2011
Written By: MantaOC
From: Orange County, CA
Owned this Product for: 0-3 Months
Level of Expertise: Average
Pros: size, performs well, compatibility, easy to setup, value for money, Good Signal
Unbelievably simple to set-up. It gets a bit complicated if you are setting up from a PC, but with a mac or iPhone/iPad it is super easy. You just need to download the free app Airport Utility. My previous Dlink router had some compatibility issues with my Android phone, but everything went super smooth with the Apple router. I am not super tech savvy and don't really know how to customize all the different parameters and security settings on routers. This one was just plug and play. The signal is also pretty strong and is pretty good strength throughout my condo which is multi-level. All of my other devices - wireless photoframe, wireless printer, Xbox, Wii, PS3 works seamlessly.
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Review 5 for Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
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Apple Airport Extreme
Date:November 15, 2011
Written By: Matinicus
From: Warsaw, IN
Owned this Product for: 0-3 Months
Level of Expertise: Expert
Pros: performs well, compatibility, easy to setup, Good Signal
I have set up lots of networks in my career, but stand amazed how easy this set up. Last week a window popped up on my computer and asked me if I wanted to update the firmware on my router. I said yes and it took over. 60-90 seconds later it was done. This is just so much better than the ilk from D-Link, Netgear, Belking and Linksys.
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Review 6 for Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
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Much better than what I had
Date:September 29, 2011
Written By: ecliptic
From: California
Owned this Product for: 0-3 Months
Level of Expertise: Good
Pros: size, performs well, design, compatibility, easy to setup, value for money, Good Signal
I replaced an old wireless router which was falling behind current standards. The AirPort Base Station was extremely easy to set up, worked immediately and eliminated all the glitches I'd been experiencing with the old hardware.
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Review 7 for Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
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Effortless WiFi, now Faster
Date:September 20, 2011
Written By: SkipB
From: Tacoma WA
Owned this Product for: 0-3 Months
Level of Expertise: Expert
Pros: performs well, design, compatibility, easy to setup, Good Signal
The latest AirPort Extreme Base Station is like its predecessors, just faster. Setup was effortless using AirPort Utility. The new base station (replacing an earlier generation AirPort Extreme) joined our wireless network with two other base stations right away and has been running for weeks with no issues. I love the simultaneous dual-band functionality. Now our smartphones (running on 2.4 GHz) don't slow down the network for our computers (running on 5 GHz).
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Review 8 for Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
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Performance:
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Ease of Use:
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Great Laptop
Date:September 12, 2011
Written By: reub
From: California
Owned this Product for: 0-3 Months
Level of Expertise: Good
Pros: size, performs well, design, value for money
Cons: none
It's small, light, fast and powerful. I'm not using any of my other computers. Finally have the laptop I've been wishing for.
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Review 9 for Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
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Performance:
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Ease of Use:
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Best router I've ever used
Date:September 2, 2011
Written By: Yuniverse
From: Seattle, WA
Owned this Product for: 0-3 Months
Level of Expertise: Expert
Pros: size, performs well, design, compatibility, easy to setup, Good Signal, dual band
Using this for 7 different computers and iPad 2, two iPhone 4, iPod Touch...
iPad 2 can utilize the 5GHz bandwidth and doesn't interfere with Microwave ovens.
I noticed that even with 2.4GHz connection, iPad 2 video streaming was much more robust when using the microwave oven than before (D-link DIR 655).
iPad 2 can utilize the 5GHz bandwidth and doesn't interfere with Microwave ovens.
I noticed that even with 2.4GHz connection, iPad 2 video streaming was much more robust when using the microwave oven than before (D-link DIR 655).
You have to download a small software from Apple, if you're using a Windoze machine like me to configure it (Airportsetup)
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Review 10 for Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
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Performance:
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Very pleased with my first router
Date:August 8, 2011
Written By: GrampaThrottlebottom
From: Rural northern California
Owned this Product for: 0-3 Months
Level of Expertise: Average
Pros: size, performs well, design, compatibility, easy to setup, Web Interface, value for money, Good Signal
Cons: printers not compatible.
Big improvement on using iMac as a router. Instantly compatible with Windows and Kindle. Only negative is that it won't communicate with my older Brother laser and Epson ink jet printers. Oh well, nothing's perfect.
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Review 11 for Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
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Performance:
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Ease of Use:
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Wonder fix for network
Date:August 6, 2011
Written By: 2011T
From: Nashville,TN
Owned this Product for: 0-3 Months
Level of Expertise: Average
Pros: Good Signal
Perfect solution for dropped network connections of multiple computers and online devices.
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Review 12 for Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
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Great service
Date:August 4, 2011
Written By: Cmac
From: Tacoma
Owned this Product for: 0-3 Months
Level of Expertise: Average
Pros: size, performs well, design, compatibility, easy to setup, Web Interface, Good Signal
Products works just like the reviews said, informed all the way on the shipping timetable and I got it on tlme.
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Review 13 for Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
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Excellent
Date:August 4, 2011
Written By: pmdworks
From: San Francisco, CA
Owned this Product for: 0-3 Months
Level of Expertise: Expert
Pros: size, performs well, design, compatibility, easy to setup, Good Signal
Apple Airports have come a long way, the latest Extreme provides a strong signal throughout my house, easy to setup and maintain, usb for printer or hard drive, 3 gigabit Ethernet ports, good price from Macconnection.
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Review 14 for Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
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Performance:
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Beautiful, Simple, and Fast!
Date:July 18, 2011
Written By: CornCream
From: Pekin, IL
Owned this Product for: 0-3 Months
Level of Expertise: Average
Pros: size, performs well, design, easy to setup, value for money, Good Signal
I don't have experience comparing routers back to back, but I have experienced some bad ones and this is certainly not one of them. It does its job, sets up effortlessly, and obviously looks great doing it. I am satisfied with this and would recommend it to anyone looking for a great home networking router.
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Review 15 for Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
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Performance:
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Awesome product!
Date:July 16, 2011
Written By: Bear2
From: Texas
Owned this Product for: 0-3 Months
Level of Expertise: Average
Pros: size, performs well, design, compatibility, easy to setup, Web Interface, value for money, Good Signal
The Airport Extreme shipped quickly and was up and running five minutes out of the box. Definitely superior to anything else out there. It functions flawlessly!
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