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That's just too sad. I was thinking recently how my 3 year old AirPort express was the best router I've owned. These routers were always super easy to configure
by gchokov 10y ago
That's just too sad. I was thinking recently how my 3 year old AirPort express was the best router I've owned. These routers were always super easy to configure and I remember maybe one reboot in its lifetime... it powers:
2 MBP pros;
2 iPhones
1 Apple TV
1 Roomba 980 cleaning bot
1 Footbot - Air quality monitoring
1 Apple Watch
1 Sony PS4
... everything working flawlessly
Sad day for me.
- nashashmi 10y agoSurprising you found them stable. I have another router to be the best of the best: Asus Dark Knight (pricey). Try giving it a try. I must have gone through 6 budget routers before splurging on this one. Two restarts in 6 years.
- gchokov 10y agoThanks for the recommendations as well. Looks like guys above also recommend Asus devices!
- baldfat 10y agoYou would be shocked at how good an ASUS router is comparably. I always have people tell me I have over killed my houses wifi but the speed are awesome and I own a home built in 1894 and has plaster walls. I don't understand how a router can be simpler then just typing in the password unless your trying to accomplish something more complex.
- izacus 10y agoYup, my ASUS-AC66U can do 600-700Mbit/s over air which is pretty impresssive and a bit better than what airport extreme could.
- MrBuddyCasino 10y agoYup, the trick is simply to not buy a shitty router. I got an Netgear AC1900 Nighthawk, and its working flawlessly.
- mikestew 10y agoYup, and that trick used to be "go buy an Airport". Now the trick will be "go read a bunch of web pages and hope you make a good choice". I'm not looking forward to it when my AirPort Extreme dies.
- gchokov 10y agoHey guys, thank you for the recommendations. That was really my next question! Thumbs(votes) up!
- r00fus 10y agoI bought an Ac66u a while back (nicknamed dark knight). The thing died after 1 month. I didn't have the time or inclination to bother to return the thing (Asus support was entirely unhelpful). Sat like a dead spider in my networking cabinet as I put my Airport back into service. If Apple is indeed abandoning the router space I'm a bit disappointed and worried that leadership doesn't understand the basic needs of their average brand loyal customers.
- fulafel 10y agoAnd there's a high probability it's out of software updates and has become part of a botnet (or will soon).
- bollockitis 10y agoSame here. I was very reluctant to buy an Apple-branded router, but after going through half a dozen routers in just a few years, I figured I'd give it a shot. I have had the same router now for 4 years. I was just thinking the other day about how amazing it is that I have had to restart it only once or twice in its lifetime and it's still going strong. It's so reliable that if something is wrong with the WiFi, I immediately suspect the internet service.
- gchokov 10y agoSame thing here..