Product Description

The sleek, easy-to-use AirPort Extreme Base Station is the perfect wireless access point for home, school, or small business. Get up to five times the performance and up to twice the range of conventional 802.11g routers. Quickly set up your wireless network with AirPort Utility, available for both Mac OS X and Windows, to your DSL or cable modem. Within minutes, you and up to 50 other users can stream videos, share photos and more without wires. Next-generation 802.11n wireless technology features multiple antennas to deliver maximum speed and range. You can even connect a printer to the USB port on the AirPort Extreme Base Station and it will instantly become available to everyone on your wireless or wired network. AirPort Extreme offers a built-in firewall and supports industry-standard encryption to prevent unauthorized intrusion into your wireless network. WPA/WPA2 and 128-bit WEP let authorized users to connect to it easily with simple setup utility and powerful access controls.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #382 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Apple
• Model: MB053LL/A
• Released on: 2007-08-31
• Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: 1.30" h x 6.50" w x 6.50" l, 1.66 pounds

Features

• Three Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports for connecting computers or network devices
• Wireless networking router based on the 802.11n draft standard
• Interoperable with Wi-Fi Certified 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g Mac computers and Windows-based PCs
• Up to 5 times faster and twice the range of 802.11g routers
• USB port turns external hard drives, printers, and other devices into network resources

From the Manufacturer
Introducing the new AirPort Extreme Base Station, the perfect wireless solution for home, school, and business. As it blankets your space with a blazing-fast, secure wireless network, it opens up a world of possibilities for home entertainment, backups, printing, and more.

With the new AirPort Extreme Base Station, you and up to 50 of your friends, colleagues, or family members can enjoy a robust wireless network offering up to five times the performance and up to twice the range of networks created with the earlier 802.11g standard.

Easy as a Mac.
Setting up a network should be as easy as setting up a Mac. And it is--if you’re using a new AirPort Extreme, which features a completely redesigned setup utility. Just take the AirPort Extreme out of the box. Plug it in. Install the software, and in five minutes or less, you’re good to go.

Surf the web, chat, send email, or exchange photos from any computer or from your iPhone. Print or access a shared hard drive--wirelessly. Set limits for when your kids can access the Internet. Secure your network with a firewall and strong encryption. Even use AirPort Extreme as the perfect companion to Apple TV.

Superfast, supercompatible.
The AirPort Extreme Base Station features 802.11n,2 the next-generation high-speed wireless technology included with most shipping Mac computers and some newer PCs with compatible cards. The AirPort Extreme is also Wi-Fi Certified to work with the 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g wireless standards--which means the systems you’re already using will work seamlessly with the new base station.

Elegantly simple.
Just 6.5 inches square and 1.3 inches tall, the new AirPort Extreme features a simple, elegant design that will fit almost anywhere--your desk, a table, a bookshelf, or any flat surface.

What's in the box:
Airport Extreme Base Station, AirPort Utility for Mac and Windows, AirPort Disk Utility for Mac and Windows, 802.11n Enabler for Mac, Bonjour for Windows, power cord, printed and electronic documentation.

Customer Reviews

This is the way that hardware should work
I'm very happy with this device. Solved lot of problems generated by a d-link 655 that is now out of use.
I purchased a second one to increase the coverage in my property.
The installation can't be more easy. It's different from all routers out there, but it's very, very easy.
Coverage is very good and speed is great. Good product, like everything from Apple.

Great features, great performance, easy setup
Easy to set up, not intrusive, feature-set comparable (in some cases, better) than most stock firmwares from the likes of linksys, etc. I do wish there was an option to trigger WOL over the LAN but, aside from that, unit is sitting nicely in our media closet with our printer attached and shared over the network. Performance over cat 5e is excellent.

Don't waste your money if you are running intel Macs and Leopard 10.5 up
Junk on intel Macs
Written by GW from vallejo

SHAME SHAME SHAME ON APPLE WITH THIS FLUB!
I am typing this review on my living room floor with the ethernet cable swapped from the back of the Tivo box and into my MB Pro to the Airport Extreme. Thats how confident I am that it will stay wirelessly connect to either my new Intel macs. It, or they, won't stay wirelessly connected. EVER.

When you spend double on an over marketed Apple product that whose generic equivalent you could purchase at Fry's for half the cost, not to mention the wasted Sundays standing in line at the overcrowded Apple store for return, then Steve Jobs needs to have his Olympic Golf Course membership terminated, fire the wireless R&D team and demote everyone in quality control. Oh, and pay those Chinese workers a little more and they might not spend their off time selling fake Iphones on eBay.