Airport Extreme

adamskerrries

HI Folks,

I have an Airport Extreme connected into my wireless router & am enjoying the wireless benifits on HD & printer etc.

One question i can find the answer to is that since my mac are now connect to the internet through the Airport Extreme- is my connecttion faster?

Cheers

reverenddave

no it's basically just a better quality router and will suffer less connection problems

AFAIK thats all there is to them

adamskerrries

Cheers,

Thought it was but maybe that was just me being hopeful cheers

reverenddave

there's always UPCs 100MB broadband

adamskerrries

Lol, would that plug driectly into my airport extreme or do you still need a differnt modem?

reverenddave

adamskerrries wrote: »

Lol, would that plug driectly into my airport extreme or do you still need a differnt modem?

depends on if UPC provide broadband in your area
and if you have €80 a month for it

Deep Thought

adamskerrries wrote: »

Lol, would that plug driectly into my airport extreme or do you still need a differnt modem?

Ws going to buy Apple Extreme...

Why do you need another modem / router connected to the Extreme Router ?

Homer

Deep Thought wrote: »

Ws going to buy Apple Extreme...

Why do you need another modem / router connected to the Extreme Router ?

The extreme won't take a feed directly from Eircom/NTL as far as I know. AS in, you can't replace your existing supplied router with an Extreme.

kjl

I have an Airport Extreem, would not recommend over priced and very anoying to set up.

Type 17

Deep Thought wrote: »

Why do you need another modem / router connected to the Extreme Router ?

All Airport models are routers, but not modems, so they need to be connected to a modem.

This is because there are loads of different modem/ISP requirements/standards all over the world (eg: ADSL, ADSL2+, Cable, Wireless 3g, Wireless point-to-point, Wi-Max, Satellite, etc), so it wouldn't make sense to try and include modem functionality in such a device.

Victor_M

Rather than starting a new thread I'll just resurrect this one.

Currently on UPC 30Mbps connection, the cisco router isn't great for the wireless devices ie. 2 x iPhones/Ipad and ATV2, it works but I rarely get even half of the the full 30Meg connection via speed test even though on the hardwired pc it easily achieves it.

Has anyone used the Airport or Airport extreme? Would I notice €89/€159 worth of a difference vs a cheaper 802.11n brand router?

ATV2 is jail broken running XBMC, some of the file struggle to play without buffering, I'm not sure if they are file format related or poor connection related, but I'd be prepared to buy one of the airports if I was fairly sure I'd get a blazing wireless connection all the time.

I like the look of the airplay feature too and the usb NAS option.

Anyone out there have one? I'd appreciate a bit of feedback.

Thanks.

squonk

I'm on UPC's 20MB broadband and connect my extreme via bridging to UPC's modem. The Extreme is there for it's wireless N hardware. I'm getting 15-17Mbps on the speedtest app on iPhone. As for whether it's worth the extra money to you, you'd have to decide that.

Dan82

Just got an AirPort Extreme , What lead do i need to buy to connect it to the the Vodafone Modem i have? not major techy so help would be great, cheers

guil

I'd imagine its just a standard rj45 Ethernet cable

Dan82

guil wrote: »

I'd imagine its just a standard rj45 Ethernet cable

thanks and will that just connect to any the fitting on rear or vodafone wifi box and the AirPort