Friday, November 04, 2011

And for my next Apple purchase....the Airport Extreme!

I've had a Dlink wireless router for about four years now. During the past few months I've had all kinds of intermittent problems with my wifi connections and broadband speeds to Comcast. I knew the router was the culprit, but didn't really want to spend the money. After my level of frustration crossed my desired to not spend money I decided to purchase a new wireless router. I looked at lots of vendors and checked out reviews from various web sites and ultimately went with the Airport Extreme. I agree the the Airport Extreme is not the most configurable router. You won't find Quality of Service and most advanced wireless features, but I don't need them so why does it matter? The Airport Extreme drew me, in part, because of its really nice and basic design. I also liked the configuration tool that Apple has. Technical reviewers are always critical of Apple for not having a web interface, but seriously, it's not a big deal. The performance and reliability has been great so far so no complaints. I could have been just as happy with another Dlink router, but the Airport Extreme just felt like the right decision when considering everything.

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