Airport Extreme 802.11N (5TH GEN)
Ranting 
Price $173.67 
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The perfect wireless solution for home, school, and business, the Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station blankets your space with a blazing-fast, secure wireless network opening up a world of possibilities for home entertainment, backups, printing, and more. This 5th generation version of the AirPort Extreme operates in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands simultaneously to ensure top performance for all your devices, and it provides a Guest Networking option for easy Internet sharing. It also enables you to share your entire wireless network with up to 50 users at the same time as well as turn a USB hard drive into a shared drive that's accessible wirelessly on your network and now over the Internet.
Simultaneous Wireless-N Dual-Band Support
The Apple Airport Extreme is based on the Wireless-N (IEEE 802.11n) specification and it uses multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) to transmit multiple data streams simultaneously--resulting in data transfer speeds up to five times those of 802.11g wireless networks while also providing up to twice the range. It's compatible with Mac computers, PCs, and wireless devices such as iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch that use 802.11a, 802.11b, or 802.11g technologies.
Additionally, some Wi-Fi devices use the 2.4 GHz wireless band (such as the iPhone, iPod touch, and other devices using 802.11b/g). And other devices can use both the 2.4 GHz spectrum as well as the higher speed 5 GHz spectrum--such as 802.11n-based Mac computers and Apple TV.
The Airport Extreme operates simultaneously on both bands, without you having to choose one spectrum over the other--enabling your Wi-Fi devices to receive optimal performance in speed and range. Plus, devices that can connect to the Airport Extreme on either band will automatically use the best available band.
See how the Airport Extreme delivers fast wireless networking to any home or small business.
Gigabit Ethernet
In addition to Wi-Fi networking, the AirPort Extreme Base Station includes three Gigabit Ethernet ports for fast wired connectivity with desktop computers, network drives, and more.
Easy Setup
Launch AirPort Utility and you're just a few short steps away from creating the ultimate Wi-Fi environment. Mac users can access the AirPort Utilitylocated in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder, while Windows users can access AirPort Utility by selecting Start > All Programs > AirPort.
Guest Networking Capabilities
Allow guests to use your Internet connection without sharing your password or giving them access to the rest of your network. Simply enable the guest networking feature using the AirPort Utility application and create a separate Wi-Fi network just for your friends. You can set up this guest network with a different password or with none at all. Your primary network--including your printer, attached drives, or other devices--remains secure.
Sharing a Hard Drive
The AirPort Extreme can turn an external USB hard drive into a drive you can share with all the users on your network and access securely over the Internet. This feature--AirPort Disk--is a simple and convenient way to share files among everyone in your family, office, or class.
Just connect the external hard drive to the USB port on the back of your AirPort Extreme and all the documents, videos, photos, and other files on the drive instantly become available to anyone on the secure network--whether they use a Mac or a PC.
Wireless Printing
With its wireless printing capabilities, you can plug a printer into the AirPort Extreme, add it to the printer list on your Mac or PC, and start printing--all without a cable tethered to a computer. AirPort Extreme uses the Mac- and PC-compatible Bonjour networking technology to let everyone on the network take advantage of one centrally available printer.
If you want to share a hard drive as well as share a printer across a network, you can connect a USB hub to the AirPort Extreme and attach your devices to the hub. Share both a printer and a hard drive, multiple printers, multiple hard drives, or a combination.
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What's in the Box
AirPort Extreme Base Station, power supply with cord, printed documentation
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Customer Reviews
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A winner!
I fired my Belkin router after experiencing frequent dropped wireless connections and rebuffering when streaming movies, and replaced it with the Airport Extreme.Read More]
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Excellent well built router
Bought this to replace a new linksys router that i had bought. The linksys couldnt handle all the wireless devices we have i guess, ive had the airport for 2 weeks now and havent...Read More]
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Great Performance, Easy Setup
Apple's top of the line router is priced fairly high compared to other offerings from Linksys or Netgear, but it's very powerful, has a few extra features and is pretty easy to...Read More]
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Not for Business Use
Over the Holidays my wife decided to upgrade most of her portable office technology to iPads and MacBooks (no complaints here, nice stuff) while we were picking up the products at...Read More]
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Best router I've ever owned
I love this router.I had a net gear n prior to this one that I would always have to reset.So far in 2 weeks no resets all all with the extreme.Read More]
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Great amazing device!
I have been wanting to buy a new Internet router for a long time....finally decided to bite the bullet. I,took a long time to do research on what was out there.Read More]
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Once I reset my AE...it was amazing!!
Had initial difficulty setting up as it would not recognize this on the Airport Utility on my iMac7. A friend suggested using a pen tip to hit the reset button.Read More]
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Refurbished Airport Extreme Base Station
I received the item within about a week and was pleased with the delivery time. It has been set up and has worked almost all the time with a couple of times that it needed to be...Read More]
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Not an easy set up
I have Comcast Internet & Phone with the modem; a security system alarm.
First attempt to set this router up and I lost the phone line.Read More]
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