Cheap Apple M8799LL/A AirPort Extreme Base Station with Modem and Antenna Port (Electronics) (Mac OS X) Price

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Customer Reviews of Apple M8799LL/A AirPort Extreme Base Station with Modem and Antenna Port

It works!
Two minor issues, but I gave 5 stars anyway. I decided to go with the Airport Extreme Base Station mostly because I have three Macs at home. (I work with Windows machines all day, and eight hours of frustration is enough!) Here's my set-up: I have a G4 PowerMac, 1.42 dual, that I use for recording music and an older G4 that I use for the business-end of the studio (word processing, database, scheduling, etc.). These computers are in a building that's about eight feet from the house. Also in the studio is a Espon Stylus Photo R800 printer. In the house we have a PowerBook G4 that we mostly use sitting on the couch upstairs. <
>I set up the Airport in the studio. It is connected via ethernet to the modem supplied by Comcast. The music computer is connected to the Airport also via an ethernet cable, and the printer is connected via USB. <
>I took the Airport out of the box, hooked it up, and used the Airport Set-up Assistant on the PowerBook to configure everything. The network started working almost immediately. All three computers connected to the network with no problems: two of them wirelessly and the other through the ethernet cable. I was able to share files among and print from all three computers. After three hours of trying, however, I still wasn't connected to the internet. Finally I called Comcast. They said they couldn't help with 3rd party hardware issues, but before the guy hung up, he suggested that I reset the modem by unplugging and plugging it back in. That fixed it. <
>The two issues I've had are: The two wireless computers don't automatically connect to the network after a restart or sleep mode. I have to go to system preferences>network, etc. I've read the manual and done searches, but so far I haven't figured out a solution. I still consider it minor because, even though I have to manually connect, it still takes less time than it did back in the days when I had dial-up. The other issue is that occasionally the wireless signal to the PowerBook upstairs falls to one bar or drops out altogether. This happens about once in every 4 hours of use. Usually the signal is at 3 or 4 bars (out of 4). I have friends who have told me I should be happy with this performance. As I'm writing this, I'm sitting about 40 feet, two walls, and one floor away from the Airport and I'm seeing 4 bars. Someone suggested to not go with the "Automatic" setting for channel select. I started trying the channels one by one and channel 5 far outperforms the first 4. I haven't even tried 6 through 11 yet.

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2.5 years of experience and a lower price unless you need 'n' this is it.
I've had one of these units for 2.5 years. It connects a G5 imac, a Windows 98SE and a Sony PlayStaion 2 to the internet. All at the same time, keeping all the balls in the air. The user interface is classic Apple, it just works. The airport has a built in firewall. I have not had a single attack on the unprotected Windows machine. Maybe luck, maybe a good firewall. This is the only device I know of that will allow you to set up a wireless network with dial-up, as it has a built in modem. I used that for a few months and it works very well. Now that the new airport is out, the price has come down on this unit. Unless you need the new 'n' type this is a good choice. The only down side is that I am forced to use WEP 128 bit security on the mac because the windows machine does not support anything more advanced. Another big plus is that the airport is not an eyesore. Neither does it look like it is trying to get on a starwars set. I've had no problems with range. The Windows machine is 50 feet from the airport with several walls and obsructions. Maintains 100% link quality most of the time.

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No range
I love Apple products, but this thing has no range. We can not use a wireless laptop 5 feet form the station. We are thinking of dumping this for a linksys. If we could get someone at Linksys who knows how to use a Mac.