i have 2 apple airport extreme's and i'd never change to anything else. the
great thing is they just work, no issues, they work perfectly with the
iphone, 100% totally accessible, there is not one thing that isnt accessible
on the airport extreme. setup is the easiest ever.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dane Trethowan" <[email protected]>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2015 7:31 PM
Subject: Apple Airport Extreme
I did some further research on the Apple AirPort Extreme and unfortunately I
was absolutely right regarding the price of the thing.
In Australia it can be purchased for $299 and the Asus RTAC3200 in Australia
is $349 so I need not say any more on the subject <smile>, the Asus
obviously being a far better piece of equipment and I’d gladly pay the $50
extra.
On 21 Dec 2015, at 5:44 AM, Anders Holmberg <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi!
I’d thought it would support it because my newer airport extreme does
support this protocol.
However you mentioned that it was a bottle neck for data.
Do you have a very big appartment?
I have not so i wonder if this makes any difference?
I also wonder how it can be a bottle neck for data but maybe this is ot
for this list?
I have had problems with my broadband connection which is 8 gb dsl so i am
changing to a 100 mbit cable modem and another carrier next month.
We’ll see how this works because i have had problems with the swedish
radio streaming but not other streams.
/A
19 dec. 2015 kl. 02:13 skrev Dane Trethowan <[email protected]>:
Okay, just checekd the Apple Airport Express on the Apple web site and
unfortunately the unit doesn't seem to support the AAC Wireless Protocol,
a shame but N is certainly better than B or G and the fact that the
Express supports both 2.$ and 5G radio bands is helpful, use the 5G band
if possible because its far less crowded.
On 12/19/2015 11:54 AM, Mary Otten wrote:
Do you still use Macs? I have an airport extreme router that I've had
for several years. It is behind the times, in that it doesn't have the
AC protocol. Then again, I'm using an xp box to type this note, so
there you go. Anyway, one of the things I have appreciated about that
Apple router is that the airport utility is so easy to use from the
Mac. That has not always been true of all routers I've seen over the
years. And it, the router that is, works well with Windoes, android and
Apple devices of various flavors. But as stated earlier, it is long in
the tooth and could undoubtedly stand to be updated to something more
robust that has the newer protocol for higher speed and better distance
etc. I have a couple of older airport expresses connected to sound
systems in various parts of the house for airplay streaming from Apple
devices. There again, having that airport extreme as the head router,
so to speak, has worked wonderfully.
Mary
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