Comments on: Apple’s new Airport Extreme Router http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070114/apples-new-airport-extreme-router/ Playing with cool gadgets in the ongoing search for the Coolest Gadget Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:53:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Mike http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070114/apples-new-airport-extreme-router/comment-page-1/#comment-82339 Mike Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:39:21 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070114/apples-new-airport-extreme-router/#comment-82339 It's a real bummer that they didn't include gigabit ports on this for the premium $180 pricetag. If they did, I'd probably jump on it. After all, every Mac that's been produced for years has a gigabit LAN connector on it. I'll be curious to see the reviews for this and see if Apple was able to coax better performance out of the 802.11n draft standard than other manufacturers. The reviews on the existing draft-N stuff are pretty pathetic and you're basically paying a huge premium for "5X the performance" and "loads more range" which never materializes according to the reviewers. Hopefully, Apple has done it right with this router and you actually get the promised speed/distance enhancements. It’s a real bummer that they didn’t include gigabit ports on this for the premium $180 pricetag. If they did, I’d probably jump on it. After all, every Mac that’s been produced for years has a gigabit LAN connector on it.

I’ll be curious to see the reviews for this and see if Apple was able to coax better performance out of the 802.11n draft standard than other manufacturers. The reviews on the existing draft-N stuff are pretty pathetic and you’re basically paying a huge premium for “5X the performance” and “loads more range” which never materializes according to the reviewers. Hopefully, Apple has done it right with this router and you actually get the promised speed/distance enhancements.

]]> By: Daniel http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070114/apples-new-airport-extreme-router/comment-page-1/#comment-82274 Daniel Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:43:00 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070114/apples-new-airport-extreme-router/#comment-82274 The two things I love about this new product from apple are the 2x range as I work a bit away from my wireless router also the 5x the speed seems very impressive, so whats that then around 250mb/s as that would be amazing. The two things I love about this new product from apple are the 2x range as I work a bit away from my wireless router also the 5x the speed seems very impressive, so whats that then around 250mb/s as that would be amazing.

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