Re: apple airport express

2016-05-18 Thread Jonathan Mosen
I can't speak highly enough of the Airport Extreme. We have three on our network here. They are reliable, the 802.11AC Wi-Fi allows us to take full advantage of our fibre connection, and the configuration process is beautiful with the Airport Utility, at least on Mac and iOS. They are the best

RE: apple airport express

2016-05-18 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Yes, it's just a router. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of christopher hallsworth Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 11:23 AM To: Viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: apple airport express Hi Just curious,

Re: apple airport express

2016-05-18 Thread christopher hallsworth
Hi Just curious, being the Airport Extreme is an Apple-centric device, can it be used on Windows and other platforms? > On 18 May 2016, at 13:57, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > > Well, we had several other brand routers before the extreme and had problems > with them

RE: apple airport express

2016-05-18 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jed Barton Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 2:19 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: apple airport express ah perfect. How is the extreme, is it good? Compared to the rest of the routers out there like netgear and all

Re: apple airport express

2016-05-18 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Well, we had several other brand routers before the extreme and had problems with them dropping the wifi signal, etc. we haven’t had any issues with this extreme and have been using it for about three years now. I wish they’d put another usb slot on it, but that’s just me. I am not techy

Re: apple airport express

2016-05-18 Thread Jed Barton
ah perfect. How is the extreme, is it good? Compared to the rest of the routers out there like netgear and all that, i hear the extreme will outloast all of them. On 5/18/2016 4:20 AM, Caitlyn Furness wrote: You want the extreme, not the express. the express is only either a network

Re: apple airport express

2016-05-18 Thread Caitlyn Furness
You want the extreme, not the express. the express is only either a network extender or enables airplay. It’s not a full router.. hth, Caitlyn > On May 17, 2016, at 10:57 PM, Jed Barton wrote: > > Hey guys, > > OK, forgive me for posting this here, but i thought i

Re: apple airport express

2016-05-18 Thread Jed Barton
ah ok, the r8000, that's good to know. On 5/17/2016 11:03 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: The Airport Express is more a wireless access point than a router. If you have no devices which need to be plugged in you could use it, but otherwise you would probably want to look at the Airport Extreme

RE: apple airport express

2016-05-17 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
The Airport Express is more a wireless access point than a router. If you have no devices which need to be plugged in you could use it, but otherwise you would probably want to look at the Airport Extreme which I believe has 4 ports. I guess it all depends on how much money you want to spend. I