![]() Rather than relying on a single antenna to send and receive, the Airport Extreme uses six! Three of the six antennae are dedicated to sending and the other three to receive signals. The second and most thing that makes it such a great product is the fact the antennae architecture. There is a single white power cable matching the router itself. Rather than using the Broadcom reference design and putting it in a new case, Apple has managed to build the router from ground up.įirst and foremost, the power supply is built right in! So, no ugly power bricks are clinging to your wall sockets. Although it packs in a lot of other goodies that sets the Airport Extreme apart from the competition. The Airport Extreme is essentially a dual band 11 ac router powered by a Broadcom chipset. Well, inside that sexy looking cube, or tower or whatever you may prefer to call it, it is a rather conventional router. Let’s take a look a some of the features of the router itself. ![]() It enables the user to take a system-wide backup of all the Apple machines connected to the network right into the router. The only difference between the two is the fact that the Time Capsule one has an additional 3.5-inch hard disk. The standard one, which we will be talking about here and a Time capsule version. There are two models of Airport Extreme available from Apple. Apple released the latest model back in June 2013 with wireless 11ac bands, a first for the company. ![]() After all, they were the ones who pioneered the technology and brought it to the personal computing. When it comes to wifi, Apple knows a thing or two. The company has spent a lot of research dollars in the development of wifi technology over the years. Now in its sixth generation, the Airport Extreme has come a long way from its goofy UFO-looking days. In this review, we are going to take a closer look at this beautiful and powerful router. The unique design compels you to display it rather than hide it like your old, ugly router! It is fast and super easy to set up, which makes it a perfect, well almost perfect as we will see shortly. So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Apple’s version of a wireless router does not disappoint at all. Let me begin by stating the obvious, when it comes to design no one comes even close to Apple.
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