The apartment size isn’t so much an issue these days rather the other people who are using Wi-Fi networks and there are around a dozen of those near me according to my scan.
My Wi-Fi travels right up the road to the Doctors surgery 2 doors away though I don’t think I’d be too reliant on enjoying uninterrupted Audio Streaming from there, haven’t tried it yet. How do I know about Bottle necks in Routers and so on? By reading technical forums and the like and white papers regarding various devices. Its unfortunate that the Airport Extreme suffers from this and its unfortunate because of the price tag for one of these units so in the end, if you’re thinking of an Extreme then you may as well bite the bullet and get something far better like the Asus RTAC3200 Tri-Band Router. Apple really should be ashamed of themselves offering the Extreme at this price tag with a very poor performance. The design of the Extreme hasn’t really changed since its inception and the only thing that has changed is the addition of the new AAC protocol but even then the Extreme doesn’t perform well. As Mary mentioned, the Extreme is very easy to set up thanks to the utility but functionality of the Extreme is incredibly limited compared to other Routers and for the price I’d expect far more. No, I’e not used an Airport Extreme as such but I have used a Time Capsule and the only difference between the Extreme and Time Capsule as far as I’m aware is that the Time Capsule has a built-in Hard Drive whereas the Extrem does not. The Extreme doesn’t even have a DLNA Media Server even though it has a USB port and in a modern day Router? Well that’s just a joke. > On 21 Dec 2015, at 5:44 AM, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se> wrote: > > Hi! > I’d thought it would support it because my newer airport extreme does support > this protocol. > However you mentioned that it was a bottle neck for data. > Do you have a very big appartment? > I have not so i wonder if this makes any difference? > I also wonder how it can be a bottle neck for data but maybe this is ot for > this list? > I have had problems with my broadband connection which is 8 gb dsl so i am > changing to a 100 mbit cable modem and another carrier next month. > We’ll see how this works because i have had problems with the swedish radio > streaming but not other streams. > /A >> 19 dec. 2015 kl. 02:13 skrev Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net>: >> >> Okay, just checekd the Apple Airport Express on the Apple web site and >> unfortunately the unit doesn't seem to support the AAC Wireless Protocol, a >> shame but N is certainly better than B or G and the fact that the Express >> supports both 2.$ and 5G radio bands is helpful, use the 5G band if possible >> because its far less crowded. >> >> >> >> On 12/19/2015 11:54 AM, Mary Otten wrote: >>> Do you still use Macs? I have an airport extreme router that I've had >>> for several years. It is behind the times, in that it doesn't have the >>> AC protocol. Then again, I'm using an xp box to type this note, so >>> there you go. Anyway, one of the things I have appreciated about that >>> Apple router is that the airport utility is so easy to use from the >>> Mac. That has not always been true of all routers I've seen over the >>> years. And it, the router that is, works well with Windoes, android and >>> Apple devices of various flavors. But as stated earlier, it is long in >>> the tooth and could undoubtedly stand to be updated to something more >>> robust that has the newer protocol for higher speed and better distance >>> etc. I have a couple of older airport expresses connected to sound >>> systems in various parts of the house for airplay streaming from Apple >>> devices. There again, having that airport extreme as the head router, >>> so to speak, has worked wonderfully. >>> >>> Mary >>> >>> >> >> -- >> >> ********** >> Those who don't need help are prepared to help themselves >> >> > > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
