Airport Extreme Base Station Model

The sleek, easy-to-use AirPort Extreme Base Station with simultaneous dual-band support is the perfect wireless access point for home, school, or small business. It offers fast, 802.11n Wi-Fi access for Mac computers, PCs, and Wi-Fi devices such as iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple TV.

Amazon Sales Rank: #16381 in Consumer Electronics Brand: Apple Model: MB763LL/A Platform: Windows Format: CD Dimensions: 6.50" h x 6.50" w x 1.30" l, 1.66 pounds Easy wireless networking: In minutes, you and up to 50 others can hook up your Mac computers or PCs. Simultaneous dual-band Wi-Fi: works simultaneously on both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. Guest networking: you can set up a separate Wi-Fi network with a separate password for your visitors. Strong security and access control. Works with iPhone, Apple TV and more.

The perfect wireless solution for home, school, and business, the 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 updated version of the AirPort Extreme now operates in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands simultaneously to ensure top performance for all your devices, and it provides a new 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. New Features Some Wi-Fi devices use the 2.4GHz wireless band, including iPhone, iPod touch, and devices using 802.11b/g. Other devices can use either 2.4 GHz or the higher-speed 5 GHz band, such as the latest 802.11n-based Mac computers and Apple TV. Instead of choosing one of the bands, AirPort Extreme now operates simultaneously on both bands, and your multiband devices automatically use the best available band. This means all your Wi-Fi devices get the fastest possible wireless performance and the best possible range. And with this updated Airport Extreme, it's easier than ever to allow guests to use your Internet connection without sharing your password or giving them access to the rest of your network. Simply enable the new 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. Compatibility AirPort Extreme works seamlessly and wirelessly with all your Wi-Fi devices. In fact, it's an incredibly easy way for up to 50 users to share a single broadband Internet connection, USB printer, and external hard drive without messy cables. And you don't have to worry about a difficult network setup. AirPort Extreme uses the Bonjour technology in Mac OS X to allow AirPort-equipped Mac computers running Mac OS X to find each other with no effort on your part--they discover each other just by virtue of being connected to the network. Computers are only part of the wireless story. If you're an Apple TV owner, you can easily integrate it into your AirPort Extreme network and enjoy the fastest possible connection for syncing with your computer's iTunes library and streaming to your widescreen TV. And if you use an iPhone or an iPod touch, they'll connect to your AirPort Extreme network to let you surf the web and more. iPhone automatically switches from the cellular network to your Wi-Fi network as soon as you walk in the front door of your home. AirPort Extreme works effortlessly with any computer that uses Wi-Fi standards, whether it's a Mac or whether it's a Dell, HP, IBM, or any other Windows-based PC. That's because AirPort Extreme is based on a draft 802.11n specification and is compatible with the earlier 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g specifications. Hard Drive Sharing AirPort Extreme can turn your 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, Mac and PC users alike. If you're away from home and need a file on the hard drive connected to your AirPort Extreme back at home, you can now access all the files on your shared drive over the Internet. Simply register your AirPort Extreme with a MobileMe account (subscription required), and your drive appears in your Finder sidebar just like any other attached drive. What if you'd like to exchange files over your wireless network and still have access to a wireless printer? Easy. Just connect a USB hub to 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. Features and Specifications Compatible with Wi-Fi Certified 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, or 802.11n enabled Mac computers, iPhone, iPod touch, and Windows-based PCs Frequency bands: 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz simultaneously One Gigabit Ethernet WAN port for connecting a DSL or cable modem Three Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports for connecting computers or network devices USB 2.0 port for connecting a USB printer or USB external hard drive Security: Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA/WPA2); Wireless security (WEP) configurable for 40-bit and 128-bit encryption; MAC address filtering; NAT firewall What's in the Box Airport Extreme Base Station; AirPort Utility for Mac and Windows; AirPort Disk Utility for Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger and Windows; 802.11n Enabler for Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger; Bonjour for Windows; power supply with cord; printed and electronic documentation

Most helpful customer reviews 74 of 75 people found the following review helpful. Apple nails with this dual-band router - A / B / G / N - and guest access! By Tarun Chachra Hello, faithful to my gadget envy, I bought one of these extreme dual band base stations to see if they kept to the hype. Sure enough, Apple has improved an old mediocre product with a new, more powerful hardware engine and an improved software capabilities. Features: Bluetooth, 802.11 a / b / g / n dual-band radios at 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz simultaneously. Gigabit Ethernet ports 1x 3x Wan and Lan. Guest wireless network. Desk-sharing via USB-connected hard drive. Access to shared disk via MobileMe (Apple's Mobile Me subscribers on OS X). The box comes with the router, power cable, software CD and documentation .... limited documentation. Time for testing. Setup: Setting up an apple base station is unlike any other in the setup, you can not access the portal via your web browser. You must install the Apple AirPort Utility (Mac and Windows) to configure the router software is built well and offers ease of use typically known for Mac users. Just go through a setup wizard and define the possibilities for simple Internet connection, wireless network etc, etc. Note: When you configure wireless networks have been able to hit the button settings, so you can define a 5GHz network, as well (eg it is main wireless network called WiFi, called 5GHz WiFi (5 GHz)). Very easy to install and move on. You are also able to easily define a secure (WPA2), wireless network guest .... which simply means that if you have a visitor can use wi-fi, but not come to one of the computers on your home network. Very safe .... and a great feature to start. I used the old base from Apple and kept switching between it and a D-Link Wireless N Router .... I had one of these at first because of the dual band and guest access. Yes, there are other routers out there that can do a bit of a lower price .. but the elegance of Apple's AirPort Utility makes this a router that can be installed without too much hassle. The software will also be problems with the setup and correct before you upload them to the router. These skills make this a router just for geeks are unable to establish a robust network environment at home. Wireless: As mentioned earlier, I am similar to an old apple-base model that worked and was the only band in the range of N. We compared it against a D-Link DIR-655 router is a 2.4 GHz wireless N . The section below details about the speed my wireless experience. Speed: Comcast cable modem service that I have gives me about 15-25Mbps down and 2Mbps up .... I live in an area where the subscribers are probably 10/05 ... So my speed is generally large and never experience a delay. The first thing I do when I play with a new router is to do a speed test ... the new base station is comparable to the other and exactly the same download / upload speeds using Ethernet. There is an exception .... using the wireless feature of the device performed better than the older model and D-Link. Normally when you do a speed test wirelessly to about 12-15Mbps and 2Mbps me up .... With this router I could manage to hit the target at 20 Mbps and 2 Mbps up. Win win! So I thought this might be an anomaly and therefore continued to test a download from Microsoft - a 3.4gb file - normally placed somewhere between 900kpbs and 1.2mbps. Surprise ..... with the new base station I stayed at 1.3Mbps and no hiccups even once. The same thing happened when you download via a wireless connection, but the speed was 1.0Mbps .... I have been faster than before. Wins again! Share the disco - Not much to say here ... I attached a USB hard drive Western Digital 320 GB and shared. Just go to the AirPort Utility software and the installation share of the hard drive and define what needs to be used the password You can use the router password.