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Other than price, can anyone give me a rundown of any benefits to this approach over an Airport Extreme? Other than ideological benefits. Do they perform better
by berberous 13y ago
Other than price, can anyone give me a rundown of any benefits to this approach over an Airport Extreme? Other than ideological benefits. Do they perform better, or are there things I can't do with the Apple device? I'm not sure I want to deal with headaches here. Thanks.
- runjake 13y agoI've done pretty extensive comparisons between one of the old Airport Extreme Dual Band units that look like a white Mac Mini and run some flavor of NetBSD and it performs slightly (~10%) better than both my old WRT54G and superior-specced WNDR3700 running DD-WRT builds. I still use the WNDR3700, not for performance, but for features and configurability. The APE basically just sits and serves a network disk.
- mikeash 13y agoI use AirPort hardware all over the place and the one thing that annoys me to no end is the fact that I have to reboot the thing any time I change any configuration. This means that adjustments have to be more carefully planned and take much longer than with any other hardware.