Why I'm going BACK to Airport Extreme (D-Link Makes Garbage!)
What's up gang!?! I bought a Dlink router just over a year ago and it was just a miserable experience from the get go. Alas, it seemed like it had finally failed for forever and a Dlink didn't want to talk to me about it at all.
Can you imagine selling a product and only offering support to people who bought theirs within three months, then nothing to the rest? Shocking stuff! Haha. I am cheesed, here is my complaint. Thanks for listening to me whine!
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Your experience is why I believe Apple made a mistake in dropping network devices. The Airport Extreme wasn't inexpensive making it difficult to continue when cheap (cost and operability) WiFi routers flooded the market. Apple was probably losing money on the Airport but everyone who's used one knows how easy it is to configure and use. As we all know, they just work! I've seen other youtube channels pushing Apple to get back into the router business. They kind of are when you look at some of their Home products like the HomePod and AppleTV. Apple has the beginning of a mesh system, only needing one device that could act as the main router (the one connected to the fiber/cable/satellite/not-DSL modem). If done properly, this base station router could be the size of an AppleTV, or built into an AppleTV, using HomePods as nodes, then figure out a way to add the necessary mesh hardware into laptops and desktops, further extending the network. I like wired networks for their speed but addressing mobile devices means you need WiFi. What would it take for Apple to alter the WiFi transceiver in an iMac to provide mesh services? Just software? The iMac's WiFi can transmit and receive at the same time it uses its hardwired ethernet connection. Maybe Apple is already designing a mesh network system that simply uses Apple hardware of all kinds to provide LAN services. All that's needed is a high-speed main router connection. I took apart an older Airport Extreme my brother had messed up and there's not much electronics in the tall cube. There's room for a 3-1/2" HDD (for Time Machine backup) along with an empty area opposite the motherboard.
I liked the idea of the centralized home unit before they existed and now I find myself less interested in buying one lol. Apple TV has decent functionality in that way, but I would love to see a dedicated router produced again, especially for small businesses who might not need TV or voice recognition built into their device.
I too am using the Airport Extremes, now in 2024! I have four total, three are set up as extenders. My first Extreme was bought new, the others all came from garage or estate sales. I have the extenders placed all over the house and they’re all connected to my network with wired Ethernet. I’ve got AT&T Fiber at $54/month and Speedtest shows I’m getting 310 Mbps down and 314 Mbps up in my iPad Pro 12. (Gotta love AT&T’s fiber which is symmetrical!) My Extremes are rock-solid and rarely, if ever, do I have to reboot them. I worry that I’m using older technology for my routers, but someone advised me that stability can be worth more than speed. With three extenders in this house (which is a bit of overkill) I certainly don’t have any weak zones for my Wyze cameras, home automation devices, etc. I too wish Apple would return to the Router market.
APPLE BRING BACK AIRPORT EXTREME- pretty please.
It really completes the ecosystem
@@CanadianComputerCollector It really does and I think it will come back even better than before.
I still use an Apple AirPort Extreme and I love it! The fact that it does have gigabit ports is great, supports all the devices at my home and office, good speed, never crashes.... I bought it in 2016 and works as new.
Ours is still chugging down the tracks with absolutely ZERO hiccups. I can't believe I struggled with my DLink router almost bi-weekly when this thing has been plugged in since this video was made and I have not once had to even power-cycle it to recover a connection.
i still have mineI have the 3 and 2 tb versions bu tthen a mesh network for guests some places in my home the signal just cuts out.@@CanadianComputerCollector
Using 3 apple airport extreme routers since 2018. Have them linked together as network extenders. Love them and so far they have never failed. Don't care if wifi speeds maxes out at ~600mb/s. Network stability trumps over speed every time!
Beautiful! They just work lol. It’s a shame they haven’t renewed the thing.
Honestly hilarious man, i love the editing.
It's really crappy that they didn't support you and glad you are letting everyone know. Sorry for the hassle and thanks for sharing
Such a strange situation! I couldn’t believe it!
Greetings from the future. My network still runs on the AirPort Extreme. And d-suck the is the router that drove me to the AirPort Extreme. Even though hardware it old, would be to much for apple to send out a firmware update once a year. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Tell me how to make money future man! lol. So far this little Airport has been the most reliable router Ive ever owned. It's shocking.
Since the Apple Airport Extreme came out, I have never used another brand in my house. I know its old and sometimes I have to do some changes to its settings to make it work again, but nothing crazy compared to commercial brand may require. I agree with you on this!
It's deeply unfortunate that home networking gear is such low quality, and that we as consumers accept it
Totally agree! I have EIGHT Apple Airports (different models) with excellent service and a different brand to handle the outside world since Airports are not being security updated anymore AFAIK! I did notice that sneaky Apple a couple of months ago started introducing a delay to connect from my iPad to the airports at home so every time I have to reconnect Apple forces me to wait for around 30 seconds probably because they want me to get rid of them but I won’t! Does the same happen to any of you guys?
@@hernancoronel hey there! I have definitely noticed some slowdowns at connecting to my home network sometimes. At times I even have to shut everything down as it seems impossible to connect to the Wi-Fi. And as you said, neither will I get rid of the Apple Airport Extremes. They’re for life or till it dies. ✌🏽
I always liked how the Airport line of products looked. What sort of speeds are you getting on it?
Speeds arent great, but they are the same as the Dlink was giving me. Roughly 300 down and 60 up. Can you believe a new Dlink router would output roughly half of what it rated for? Woohoo.
been using an Airport Extreme for over 8 years now. it has 100% pass-through 1Gbps speed (if that's the right term) and backs up selected iMacs on our network. will be replacing the hdd today in it to keep it going for another 8 years with reliable speed and backups. UPDATE: Got an 8TB Seagate Barracuda to do the swap / refresh on the hard drive, because a month or so ago, I started noticing incomplete backups to it, and then I got the occasional flashing amber light on the Airport Extreme. Had to power cycle to get rid of it, but then I did a disk util scan and it showed a red-x fail. So, I decided to replace the hard drive. The replacement went just fine (don't break the little connectors!). I share this to encourage everyone to replace the hard drives as soon as you get these recycled units (after you snoop around on the existing drive to see what was there! hah!!!). The Airport Extreme's are bulletproof!
Thank you so much for posting this! I love this piece of hardware and this really gives me confidence I am not making a mistake running it for now.
I had a similar issue, setting up a home network in LATAM (LatinAmerica) with D-link products and it was a god damn headache. I ended up using a pair of old Airport extreme FIRST GENERATION, you know, the ones that looked like a plastic Apple Mini, from a thrift store... and everything has been working just fine since. It just works.
Right? Your last sentence resonates huge. It just works. Lol plz give us another router Apple.
The only routers that have been solid for me have been Apple's and Eero. Using an Eero now and very happy with it. Other routers are hot garbage. Good video!
Amazing how cheap some of the tech involved on these ‘modern’ routers can be. I think a lot of routers need to start including fans or better heat sinks. I can’t tell you how many posts I read online about ppl with routers that restarted everytime they were even warm. Terrible! Lol
HUAWEI is the only good stuff i have, and love it.
Exact same situation for me. I still have my AirPort Extreme and Express as a backup solution but I switched to the Eero and was surprised at how solid it really is. Both are fantastic.
I have used exclusively Asus routers for like 10 years in my parents apartment and recommend them with confidence. We've had d-link and tplink, all were super weird a year after purchase. This Asus one we have had for 5 years? Very stable
I have heard good stuff about ASUS routers, and tbh I have loved their hardware in PC builds over the years. After this bad girl becomes further obsolete than it is right now I will likely check out ASUS.
If you use both the 2.4 and 5 Ghz channels, does that split the speed on wifi? I have an ethernet cable going directly into my Apple TV from my AEBS, and I get almost the full 1000Mbps. On wifi (5Ghz) right next to the router, I get about 500. That said, I still like my AEBS, and still haven’t found a reason to replace it.
Interesting! I'm definitely not getting the full pull of my raw connection through this device. What it is giving me is about the same as I had with the D-LInk device. Sadly, no loss there, but in the grand scheme I am getting about half.
I still using apple Airport Extreme more that 6 years and it still solid, no issue, easy to use. I also pair it with small airport as signal extend for my home. Hope that apple bring this product line back since they now plan to start using there own network module.
The only downside to it is the speed bottleneck past ~300mbps. For now, it works and provides solid wifi to every device that needs it. From the pipe, my desktop gets ~900mbps.
I been having my airport time cap and the AirPort Express since they came out an I never stop using them they don’t kick people off an if you have more than one you can extend the Wi-Fi so because of that I used to have a desktop connected to the Wi-Fi extended one in the back of the house an I worked perfectly
I wish they kept making them
this was a great idea, thanks! those tall airport extremes are so cheap these days, i found a used one for $20 before i had finished the video. I wish apple would start making wifi products again.
Quality matters more than recency. A great example: I once had a brand new Fiat 500. After a year of ownership I traded it for a 5 year old Lexus and it was a massive upgrade, despite being worth basically the same amount of money. -Stac
I did the same, I bought an Airport Extreme from Amazon and now is working as my router :)
Recently? What do they go for these days? Was it new, used, it refurbished?
@@CanadianComputerCollector Yes. It's working at 1300Mbps, enough for me. Used $125
I had a similar problem (sort of) with my wireless connection. After my kids were hounding me of how slow the internet was and how the modem kept dropping out (connect disconnect, switch off then on again), I decided to change from one service provider to another. I'd thought I would upgrade the modem so the new provider gave me a Netcomm [blah blah] and it turned out to be worse. The tech support guy from the new provider was really helpful in trying to resolve my issue. After disconnecting every wireless device in the household and only having my MacBook Pro just 1 metre away from the wireless modem, it was still slow. So 3.5hrs later the tech support guy could not work out the issue. So the problem was the modem - the tech support guy later stated that it can only handle 16 wireless devices. No one told me this when I signed up, so I sent back the Netcomm [blah blah piece of crap] for a refund and I reconnected the old modem Saecom [blah blah less piece of crap] and it was better. The problem still is this - a lot of these cheap modems only connect 16 wireless devices at the one time ie: they can only supply 16 IP address. So 5 people in the household x2 devices each (phone and one computer) + son's girlfriend (1 phone and sometimes laptop) + 2x Mac Minis + 2x Apple TVs + 3x my laptops (1 in bedroom, 1 in lounge room, 1 random somewhere) + 2x Android TVs + iMac for video editing + wife's work HP = 23 wireless devices! And this does not include all the other wireless iPhone/iPad/computers that I connect to test around the house. Since this dilemma a year ago, I have had 2x sons move out (plus girlfriend) and I have ethernet cabling running through the house now, so this has resolved most of the issues. I may look at a mesh system soon...
It's incredible how much this video is resonating with people. I made it to blow off some steam but I can see I'm not alone in my frustrations!
I have an abundance of these I have gotten out of the trash the last few months and they all still work !! Also stumbled across the video never been here before was interesting that I have a dozen of these all good and great condition
That's awesome! Do you work in electronics recycling? How you finding them in the trash?
I had a xiaomi R4A GIGABIT (20€) and worked perfectly, then I modded it with OpenWRT because paranoid and worked perfectly even then, except the feature i needed (wireless bridge, have to bridge the connection between floors, but can't drill the pavement xD) Now I upgraded to a Linksys MR8300 (52€), and the wireless bridge functionality flat out didn't work on stock. (Also the web interface is hidden and you could be mistaken you could only configure it via the app) So I I flashed openwrt (on this router you just flash it like a normal update) and it's just the best router I ever had. It's been months on without any drops, except 1 rn because it's funny I guess, looked at the logs (because you can do that on openwrt) and it was the ISP modem+router+ap combo fault.
This is some really cool info. I’m gna pin this one if I can!
I have the last gen AirPort Extreme and Comcast internet using my own modem. I have recently been having random issues with the internet connection dropping. The modem indicator lights show all is “normal”. The only fix is to pull the power on both the modem and the Airport, power up the modem and wait until all lights indicate “normal” and then power up the Airport. Then, everything works fine for a few days until once again -no internet. Very frustrating!
How long have you been using the AirPort? That sounds crappy mi amigo!
I'm still using my airport time capsule variant. still working but always showing orange because of heat. might try to reset it to see if it will return to green.
Get some airflow in there? Slap a house fan next to it!
Man, i'm paying $30 American a month for 1 Gig FIber. Those DLink and other brands make some FUGLY routers. Until recently, I was still using an older first generation Apple Time Capsule, the flat one that is kinda shaped like an old Apple TV or Mac Mini. Then it started dropping the 5Ghz signal every so often and I would have to reset it. I looked up to see if there were any repair options, and then saw I could get a newer Airport Extreme for like $20-30 on eBay. I skipped getting the newer Time Capsule since I never really used it. With the old Time Capsule, I would only get around 200 Mbps, even on the 5 Ghz band, only around 60 Mbps on the 2.4 Ghz band. Now with the newer Airport Extreme, I get around 200 Mbps on the 2.4 Ghz band, and around 600 Mbps on the 5 Ghz band. I was so impressed with how much faster the newer router was, I ended up getting a second Airport Extreme. The Airport Utility app makes it so simple to create a mesh network too.
In all honesty, I have to upgrade to a newer piece of hardware soon as the speed issues were Dlink-side, not ISP-side. I hate all the pineapple designs and really wish Apple sold new gigabit+ routers! My wired connection on the Airport right now is roughly 300-350 mbps.
@@CanadianComputerCollector yeah, for now these last Airport Extremes get the job done. Wired, I get the full 1Gbps with the Airport, so I'm a happy camper. That's weird, you should be getting your full speed while using a wired connection. Make sure you're using a Cat 5e or Cat 6 cable. I was previously using a Cat 5 cable and it was limiting my max speeds wired.
I’ve had routers restart just out of being too hot. Personally I’ve even resorted to moving the router inside my computer case just to provide some extra airflow and it solves my problems. Even had that happen to a cable router back in the day.
This! I read a ton about the heat thing. Tried moving it so it sat with more airflow around it, tried a house fan. This thing was just done lol. That said, I relied to someone about this on another comment, routers need fans or better heatsinks now. It’s time.
I know my old Airport Extreme is...well...old:) But it still works fine. I need one more Lan port. Any recommendations of an extension to connect give me an additional no more than 2 Lan ports so I can connect another ethernet connection to to my Airport Extreme? If not no worries:) Thx
I still love mine, though the restrictions on Ethernet are legit. Perhaps create a chain of Apple routers? Adding one more slot each time you add another Airport. I’m kidding don’t do that. I’d have to Google some solutions as I haven’t had an issue as of yet. That said, this router lives at the studio and isn’t technically daily driven anymore. It’s connected 24/7 but we are using the Ethernet only to test builds and run updates.
Moving to a new home with under 100 MB speeds, pretty sure I have an airport express laying around do you think it’s worth using this instead of buying a fancy router?
I'd say absolutely. If it's under 300 I say giver, as that seems to be where mine tops out on this equipment.
3:43 omg your cat knitting i think the word is. And its so cute 😊 my cat also does that all the time
I also just got a apple airport. Super stoked about the bean form and technology but sad that they Discontinued it
I think the word is kneading, you were close!
Yeah, Apple projects just work. I have used Airport Extremes and Expresses since they came out. Always work fine, also when travelling in hotels in the old days before wifi was every where. I must say that I have also had good experience with Huawei mifi routers, but that is a bit different. NOW, we are moving from fibernet internet connection to a 5g internet with a Huawei router. Have tested it, and seems stable. And it is wildly fast. So, I am decommissioning my Airport Extreme, aiming to use it in Bridge Mode to provide access to an external shared drive (music files). I hope that works. Good video. We should all trash trash products so that they stop being bought and stop being made.
Agreed - it's deeply unfortunate that "value" seems to mean "cheap" these days - and networking products often focus on features but are dead within 3 years. What I want most in my networking equipment is speed, reliability, and durability. I imagine that's what most people want. Airport Extreme delivered and I wish they were making a new generation for wifi 6 and beyond.
If Apple is going to be the privacy leader, I don’t see how they can’t eventually restart their AirPort Extreme line. Maybe they’ll combine it with HomePod to make it more appealing.
Possibly, but depending on how much after sales support networking equipment requires. I can see it being extremely expensive and potentially a reputational risk if there are issues coming from the ISP which the end consumer will still blame on apple? Just speculating
Soo funny HUAWEI Beat them all.
i found one at salvation army thrift store should I get it ?
If you need it then sure why not
@@CanadianComputerCollector currently i have a dlink that is n router not even ac lol
That Jay character drinks with style!
He knows how to slug a bottle that’s for sure!
my having "Location" issues with my Airport Extreme, ie Amazon music app on my Android phone / Mac where it does not work, due to not being able to idenitify my location.. way to bypass was to turn on VPN, selecting "Texas" (Live in Austin) after that it worked, but noticed other hardware has a sensitivity ie AIrTV does as well
Oh man this is going to become a wild issue as networking tech ages out of support
Yep I still use these old AirPort Extreme basestations. I really wish Apple would make these again, dreading when they eventually go/are no longer usable 😬
I really wish they would continue offering them too, as I would have wandered over and grabbed a new one with a smile on my face. I think they likely pumped the breaks when they saw how many ISPs are providing Modem/Router AIOs.
The Airport Extreme is the best router I ever had, still works as of Sept of 2023, in fact, have two (extended).
They are seriously so reliable. I cannot get over how well-engineered this thing seems to be.
"Piece of" ... pause ... "Hardware" ... yeah, we know what you **WANTED** to say!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It was all I could do to hold my tongue
They spent the money on the cool Dlink router "look" and......
Hahha nothing else!
I have two Airport Extreme 5th gen and one 6th gen at home working perfectly for years and actually I have just bought another 6th gen in Ebay for 40 euros.
Beautiful. I find I am bottlenecking at 300mbps +/- ~30mbps. I think I might look into something a bit newer soon as I pay for 750mbps lol. What can the 6th gen handle as far as ethernet connects go?
@@CanadianComputerCollector I am upgrading my internet connection ( I still have DSL despite my ISP is actually pressing me to put cable :D) I will test it when it's done but right now my two 6th gen work work fairly well. And I didn't remember how ridiculously easy to configure the Airport Extreme is. Happy May Day!
Stick rocking my Extreme. It needed a battery change which was not too hard but that's it.
Good stuff. Glad to see low end tech still serving a purpose. Like dogs with jobs!
I think I never buy Wi-Fi router with visible external antenna
Let alone six lol
I've had nothing but trouble with D-Link routers for my clients over the years.
Yeah, I wish I had known better lol. At $100 for something that could handle 750mbps I thought I was going to be fine. Turns out that was foolish lol.
Currently I use a rogers Modem but wanna switch over to Airport
Old school is the bold school. Still usin mine!
I just bought a D-link(less) usb wifi adapter. Installed the drives, plugged it in, connected the … you know … and I had wifi for shockingly … 6 minutes😮
That is shocking - that it even made it that long!
Wonder if there's a way to toss an alt firmware on it and if that would fix it? Though that's also opening another can of worms. Personally, though, I've never had good luck with Linksys, Cicso, or D-Link. I bought a used Asus router on a whim though because it was dirt cheap...and pleased to report I've never had a bad experience with them AT ALL. Given I've had less-than-stellar experiences with Asus' other products, it was a pleasant surprise.
My brother's Asus router that's about 2 years old just crapped out recently
AirPort has always worked and I’m going back to it! AC is still the dominant Wi-Fi system so it’s good!
It just works lol. Hasn't let me down since I set it up while that D-link went down weekly.
Agree D-Link and TP-Link is a big disappointment for me, Family and friends had asked for help Buying new Routers. Bought brand new,With the latest firmware installed Very good Wifi signal at First,after 2-6 months, the connection starts to fail, and becomes so bad ,that i cant update a Laptop in the same room 5 different units With the same problem Have a Xiaomi ax 3600 that have been Ok But no EU firmware uppdate after late 2020? My AirPort Extreme is up and running again ,after been put away for a year,have never failed me, bought New in 2017 Greetings from Sweden
Greetings! It should be illegal for companies to sell products that fail this quickly.
Hopefully, instead of dealing with DLink again, Memory Express will take it back instead. They should, under the Sale of Goods Act, be responsible for it.
I think it has been too long to return it! That said, I am going to try to mail it back to dlink lol.
I am watching this video courtesy of my Apple Airport Extreme !
Apple AirGOAT Extreme!
I have an AirPort Extreme AC and unfortunately it just doesn't get updates anymore, including security. So I don't suggest using it. Plus, I have set up my own VPN and I don't believe the AirPort would be easily configured to accommodate that.
It’s a sad state of affairs for Apple routers. They just work, but ending sec updates is sketchy.
I didn’t stop to use them until today
Oh no! What did you replace them with?
@@CanadianComputerCollector I keep using. Perfect machine much more better than any Cisco router
Everyone knows Dlink sucks. LOL. I’m STILL clinging on to my Airport Extremes for a few more years (months?) before I give Eero a shot. Love the shades, btw!
They can take my airport from cold dead hands lol
Wow, sorry and happy to see your video...why u ask? after going thru the same thing with 3 or more different "new" routers I to have gone back to the Airport extremes and time capsules. I now own more than 20 of them...yes twenty. use about 7 in my system for backup and storage along with extending wifi throughout the home. Easy, just work, no issues for power users including gaming on all systems. Absolutely despise all the others made today. Mesh blah......even tried those. Terrible user experience. I am not an IT person, but as a work from home high bandwidth user I need reliable network coverage. both wifi and wired. Have wired throughout the house too. All plays nice. Wish Apple stayed in the router business.
It's shocking how well they actually work and continue to. These things haul serious ass without freaking out... ever? I've run this one since just before this video came out and it hasn't acted up even once while the D-link dropped off weekly.
With D-Link, you become "delinked". That's why I buy Netgear.
Hahaha. Yeah D Link could also stand for disappointing link.
As with my experience with D-Link…it’s in the name Doesn’t-Link!
Delink
I also just reintroduced my Airport Extreme to my home network, in bridge mode to supply wifi from my ISP router to my home and a couple of other wireless access points. The ISP router's wifi didn't play well with the access points and I had frequent drop-outs, but the AE works perfectly! I was getting
It's one of the few costumer grade home networking products I've ever had any faith in
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I have an Apple AirPort Extreme 892.11ac and 1000mbps internet. Is the AirPort Extreme capable of providing fast download speeds to our devices? I can’t get more than 150mbps speeds on my Speedtest. Thanks
My connection seems to ebb and flow. Currently I am getting 269mbps down and 38mbps up, but that's a third of what I pay for lol.
This is why the mandatory 2-year warranty imposed by the EU is so good. Stupidly the UK decided they didn't want this level of consumer protection any more but we still get it for now...
Sorry to hear that! It seems like the UK is having a hard time with a couple things right now. Hopefully things get figured out and these consumer protections can serve you into the future!
@@CanadianComputerCollector Fortunately we're still holding onto those laws for now but lets see how the government decides to screw us next...
Ddwrt or openwrt it and …. No problems
I did DDWRT on an old Linksys wireless wrt54g and I still bust it out now and then when I need a local network
Takeaway, the internet is evil.
Always has been, always will. Bring back Geocities.
what about Security ?
I haven’t spent too much time on that but sadly this one will have to go eventually as it is bottlenecking around 300 to 350 mbps now.
@@CanadianComputerCollector right on thanks
well I have UniFi at home and it works beautifully. after you go Enterprise you'll never go back.
Haha at least enterprise hardware comes with some semblance of a guarantee. “People won’t sue us, but businesses will!”
D-Link gonna De-link. The hammer is the best bet. That being said, I'd bet (canadian) money that it's just the power brick dying and if you grabbed any other 12V / 1A brick laying around it would work better. UniFi or Mikrotik will treat you much better.
Think so? I wonder what I have kicking around here…
I like memory express sometimes
Love Memory Express!
@@CanadianComputerCollector Ya same
I'm sorry, but after watching the movie "Idiocracy" I can't watch your videos normally. Glad you liked Apple Airport Extreme. From Russia with Love. ☺
Just curious what the relation to idiocracy is?
@@CanadianComputerCollector, good film, cool, maybe even prophetic
DIR?? More like DOA amirite?!?
D Link? More like P Dink.
D link is trash. I had issues with them and also customer service is garbage and not help after 90 days your SOL
It's shocking how little they give a damn lol. Worst post-purchase support I've ever seen.
D-link has always been shit, it's Netgear or Asus only! I'm not kidding I install home wifi, and Netgear Orbi is by far the best mesh router systems, even if the price is eye-watering! You will have complete coverage with full speeds all the way out to the distance limit, hell many of my customers report being connected to their network inside their neighbor's home next door. Ubiquity is a joke unless you run a business and have advanced networking requirements. Go with Asus routers if you want a single access point (apartments) or are a gamer where every millisecond counts. TP-Link will suffice if you're on a budget. Also wireless N vs 6E, really, N is up to 900Mbps while I can buy a 6E Orbi that has a throughput of 10.8Gbps or about 12x fast and at least 4x further! Make sure not to rent your modem either the Netgear CM2000 (no phone) or CM2050v (home phone) they pay for themselves in about 2 years (after that it helps pay for the WiFi system!), are faster, better quality, and prevent a lot of statistical data on your browsing from your ISP.
that airport is good for hooking up to another router turning off wifi and using it as a time machine bridge if your current router doesn't support it.
I definitely need an upgrade asap lol. Sadly there isn’t an Apple option as this one has been incredibly reliable, just shy on updates.
dude get a asus router end of story! their mesh system is great!
I need an upgrade so I may take you up on this.
D-Link stuff is a pile of crap in my opinion (and from my experience too) Stick with the AP for now.
Nothing but headaches with the d! Lol
In Japan 2023 1gb internet speed plan only support, 2023 routers some say they support 10you have to buy a new router every year !and does not support English set up of all the computers, are obsolete and I have no wifi to update iOS and cafe Wifi does not allow data only surfing the law in Japan you must have wifi registered and your IP address find my device is fixed with updates no updates in 2 years
That's crazy! How can they get away with pushing people to buy new every year?! And the fact your inet seemingly is so harshly regulated? I feel for ya!
D-Link products are bullshit! When I was looking for a router, all sellers recommended D-link to me, and I ask, is it better than TP-link? - they answered: "Yes! Of course! Are you still asking?" and I relied on it.. and I endured all the troubles that happened with this damn router for a year... until I changed it.. I am an ordinary user, without special needs... Most of my friends and acquaintances had ordinary and inexpensive TP-link routers and they worked smoothly and without problems from the moment of their first configuration.. So, friends, if you are reading this, do not be fooled what they can tell you in stores... do your own research and look for users of the products you want to buy and ask their honest opinion. And D-link products it's a crap!
Mama mia and amen! You are preaching to the choir!
You should follow EU rules and you'll have 2 years warranty!
Sadly we are outside of the EU!
That's why i have HUAWEI Wifi Ax3, HUAWEI Is the best, even apple suck.
Hey we all are entitled to our own opinions haha
@@CanadianComputerCollectorok good Luck :)