Comments on: Apple Airport Extreme Base Station Review

By: Eytan

Eytan — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:43:22 +0000

I have comcast, and never had a problem with Apple Routers. If they want a Mac address other than that of your cable modem, call them up and give them the one of your router – they will give you a signal on that, You don;t need to spoof the address of your laptop/desktop to the router.

By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:12:42 +0000

Yep, mine works great too. And the Airport Express is very cool as well. :)

By: Constable Odo

Constable Odo — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:47:07 +0000

I’ve been using one since they came out and have not had any problems using an attached USB drive (MiniStack v2/Seagate 400). I use BootCamp WinXP and Parallels 3.0 and the drive shows up without fail. I have the drive set with three partitions, so all the partitions pop up upon booting on my four Macs.

The only problem I’ve had with the Apple Extreme N Base station is there was this site I used to use (Sonakbi.com) that had streaming videos for WMP 10. It worked fine when I had my NetGear RangeMax MIMO, but after I installed the AEBSN I always got an error that the media can’t be found. I tried opening streaming ports and such, but I’ve yet to get the site to work properly. I think the NetGear’s PnP feature did the trick, but I’m not certain.

Other than that one problem the AEBSN is rock solid. I have mixed g/n wireless cards so most of the time I use it set for mixed. But occasionally I set it for n only and it can really do some fairly decent speed file copying from computer to computer.

By: Carlo Santoso

Carlo Santoso — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:24:40 +0000

There’s no easy way to download the latest version of the Airport Utility for Mac either. Mac users also must install the tool directly from the CD first – which is rather asinine).

By: jjprojects

jjprojects — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:25:33 +0000

I agree about it being user friendly Chris. I set one up over the weekend with 3 computers and 2 external HDs. I was expecting some teething problems, given that I had a few with my previous Linksys router.

It was quick and easy to set up, and it’s been smooth sailing so far. That’s the way I like.

By: MyAppleMenu : Conversations In The Apple Community

MyAppleMenu : Conversations In The Apple Community — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Apple Airport Extreme Base Station Reviewby Chris Pirillo No doubt about it: this is (by far) the most user friendly home networking router I've ever had the pleasure of using.