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Pak^Man

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jul 28, 2008
192
0
Columbus, OH
Hi MR Community!

Im looking for advice on what kind of a router to out up on my sister's home network. I have myself used Airport Extreme for about 4 years now.

However in her case, given that she needs just something that hums along (with no need for a hard drive sharing etc.), and given that new Airport Express has dual antennas, I was wondering if that would be the more cost effective solution? Plus the smaller size would a small positive for her su well.

Would there be any downsides I'm missing vis a vis range, etc?

The network would probably have 3-5 users commecting to it at most, with no guest users.

Thanks!
 

yinz

macrumors 6502a
Apr 12, 2012
641
5
I think the new airport Express can do guest network.. it's pretty crazy.
 

weckart

macrumors 603
Nov 7, 2004
5,834
3,508
The Express only has 10/100 WAN/LAN ports. That obviously limits the speed of your internet connection once it exceeds 100Mb/s.
 
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