Okay, so after my wife traded in her Windows laptop for a 15" MBP, I have also traded in my Windows machines in order to return to Macintosh. (Haven't used a Mac since System 7.1 when Windows95 tricked me into making the switch because it was "close enough.")
Anyway, I've gone in deep...have a 15" MBP, 17" MBP, a Mac Pro, an AppleTV, an IP laser printer, and a Linksys VOIP box sharing my network. The idea of an AirDisk to do Time Machine backups was enough to convince me to retire my Linksys WRTGS and replace it with an AEBS. After struggling for a few months to get the AirDisk feature to work, I gave up and started doing wireless TM backups from the MBPs to drive partitions in the MacPro, which has worked fine, so the AirDisk feature is now dead to me, even if if purportedly now works.
My biggest problem is that the AEBS has no QoS functions like my WRTGS did and since I live in the boonies, the fastest internet connection I can get is a 3 Mbps/768kbps DSL. I have two phone lines (home and business) that run via VOIP, but without QoS, I run into big problems when I am uploading files since my phone calls get choppy and people can not hear me. This is unacceptable for a business situation, so it's time to find yet another 802.11n solution with QoS since it appears there is no way to tweak this on the feature-starved AEBS.
My concern is that I want to pick an 802.11n router (with QoS, of course) that is Apple-friendly...something that will work great with an AppleTV and several Macs running Leopard, but most reviews I have found about routers tell me how great they work with people's Windows and Linux machines.
So, any recommendations from the Apple-fans as to what 802.11n routers with QoS are out there that have proven to work well in a mostly-Mac environment? I had been looking at a Linksys WRT330N or a D-Link DIR-655. Will I be disappointed like I was with the AEBS?
Thanks in advance for the advice!
Anyway, I've gone in deep...have a 15" MBP, 17" MBP, a Mac Pro, an AppleTV, an IP laser printer, and a Linksys VOIP box sharing my network. The idea of an AirDisk to do Time Machine backups was enough to convince me to retire my Linksys WRTGS and replace it with an AEBS. After struggling for a few months to get the AirDisk feature to work, I gave up and started doing wireless TM backups from the MBPs to drive partitions in the MacPro, which has worked fine, so the AirDisk feature is now dead to me, even if if purportedly now works.
My biggest problem is that the AEBS has no QoS functions like my WRTGS did and since I live in the boonies, the fastest internet connection I can get is a 3 Mbps/768kbps DSL. I have two phone lines (home and business) that run via VOIP, but without QoS, I run into big problems when I am uploading files since my phone calls get choppy and people can not hear me. This is unacceptable for a business situation, so it's time to find yet another 802.11n solution with QoS since it appears there is no way to tweak this on the feature-starved AEBS.
My concern is that I want to pick an 802.11n router (with QoS, of course) that is Apple-friendly...something that will work great with an AppleTV and several Macs running Leopard, but most reviews I have found about routers tell me how great they work with people's Windows and Linux machines.
So, any recommendations from the Apple-fans as to what 802.11n routers with QoS are out there that have proven to work well in a mostly-Mac environment? I had been looking at a Linksys WRT330N or a D-Link DIR-655. Will I be disappointed like I was with the AEBS?
Thanks in advance for the advice!