On May 17, 2004, at 8:09 AM, James Rohde wrote:
Good morning All, I live in the Seattle area and we have all of the electronic and office big box stores, independent Apple dealers, and at least two Apple Stores. I am getting ready to go home wireless with my Pismo, and in reading the Sunday paper and all of the ads, my question is this; why do I need Airport, when there are several name brand WiFi routers on sale for less than $100.00? Aside from Apple loyalty, and the "cool" factor, which may be negligent as the router is often in a place where the casual visitor to your home may not see it and therefor not be impressed by your "cool" factor, is there a compelling technical factor for using an Airport over any of the other good products on the market ? I have been a rabid Mac user since 1985 and love the "look and feel" of the products and how they work, and work, and work! Thanks Jim.
Two reasons for me.
When I bought a graphite base station (on eBay) I needed a wireless router with a modem since I didn't have broadband where I lived. Since moving, I do have broadband. I will probably upgrade the olde graphite to an extreme base station for the USB port. I don't think any other mfr. has a router that will let you print to a USB printer connected to the router like the airport extreme. If there is, I'd like to know.
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