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Comment on "I Heart AirPort Routers"
by bluk — Jan 15
I can understand your love for Airport Expresses, but can anyone tell me what's so good about Airport Extremes? You're paying $70 more compared to an Airport Express for a single Ethernet port but lose iTunes streaming and the portability.

Heck, you could buy an Airport Express and a Linksys WRT54G, and still come out monetary-wise ahead with iTunes streaming, more router ports (essentially a four port switch), a whole portable router, and more configuration options. Granted, the Linksys may be harder to configure (I actually find them very easy to configure and you can configure them with just a web browser), but you usually only configure them once and leave them alone. Software wise, AFAIK everything can officially be done on a Linksys that an Airport Extreme can do except Apple's version of WDS. There isn't a performance advantage either that I can tell between the two routers.

Perhaps Apple is keeping their price high so that when 802.11n or whatever comes along, it won't look like they're charging a lot more for it. Other than that, I just don't understand why it is priced so high when it offers very little advantages compared to the Airport Express.
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