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airport extreme 7th Generation?

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Che Castro

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do you think there will be an update soon
and what could they add to it to make it better?
it already has 802.11ac

i currently have the 5th generation & the airport extreme 6th generation Refurbished in the apple store is very tempting for $129

right now i only have one device that has 802.11ac & that's the iphone 6 ,but i plan to get the ipad air 2 or 3

my comcast internet speed is just over 100mb on speedtest, i get that on both iphone 6 and ipad mini 2

everything else is wired ps4/mac/apple tv with cat6

will i see an increase in speed with the 6th generation over the 5th ?
 
I'd also appreciate one without the need of an internal fan. Mine is fine, but a friend of mine who live close to an highway had to open and clean his once or twice already.
 
After diving further personally into networking and equipment I'll probably be selling my 2 current gen Airport Extremes in favor of a Ubiquiti Router + Switch +(2) 802.11ac AP's.

The AEBS has been my go to router since leaving my trusty LinkSys WRT54G.
I've had the AEBS 3rd, 4th, 5th and now 6th gens as well as the 1st and 2nd gen Airport Express.

Only need the switch (a 24port Gigabit) because I have everything in my home hardwired that can be.
DirecTV Genie
HarmonKardon AVReceiver
Synology DS1515+ NAS
MacMini Server
(3) iMacs
(5) AppleTV's
and a few other Internety things in the house
as well as having a few extra ethernet drops in each room.

I've always loved my AEBS's and have sworn by them but I'm thinking of moving on.
 
mmomega said:
After diving further personally into networking and equipment I'll probably be selling my 2 current gen Airport Extremes in favor of a Ubiquiti Router + Switch +(2) 802.11ac AP's.

The AEBS has been my go to router since leaving my trusty LinkSys WRT54G.
I've had the AEBS 3rd, 4th, 5th and now 6th gens as well as the 1st and 2nd gen Airport Express.

Only need the switch (a 24port Gigabit) because I have everything in my home hardwired that can be.
DirecTV Genie
HarmonKardon AVReceiver
Synology DS1515+ NAS
MacMini Server
(3) iMacs
(5) AppleTV's
and a few other Internety things in the house
as well as having a few extra ethernet drops in each room.

I've always loved my AEBS's and have sworn by them but I'm thinking of moving on.
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I have a 2 story 2800 sqft home with 115 Mbs internet (comcast)with around 15 devices. Still using my previous gen Time Capsule as a router.
Switched my cell phone provider to T-Mobile and got a free Asus AC1900 router from them. http://www.asus.com/us/Networking/RTAC68U/
Using it connected to ethernet as a WFI extender.
Now I have perfect coverage everywhere in the house with download speeds on the iPhone and iPad of 80Mbs or greater for free.
 
eduardrw said:
I have a 2 story 2800 sqft home with 115 Mbs internet (comcast)with around 15 devices. Still using my previous gen Time Capsule as a router.
Switched my cell phone provider to T-Mobile and got a free Asus AC1900 router from them. http://www.asus.com/us/Networking/RTAC68U/
Using it connected to ethernet as a WFI extender.
Now I have perfect coverage everywhere in the house with download speeds on the iPhone and iPad of 80Mbs or greater for free.
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Mine is right at 2800 sqft 1 story so it is much more spread out.
With the previous AEBS I needed 3 5th Gen's hardwired basically in a triangular pattern to get a consistent high speed signal, I too have a 100+Mbps.
Even with excellent signal strengths I still had some occasional buffering on the AppleTV's. I ran a single CAT6 to that aTV and I had no more buffering issues so that weekend I started running CAT6 everywhere in the house and outside. We have aTV's outside on a patio at the pool.

Seeing as though I had all of the tools the wire my house and CAT6 was barely $100/1000ft I wired absolutely everything I could and I still have 20+ WiFi devices.

My one suggestion to anyone else that would want to hardwire their home....definitely do it before summer hits, especially if you live in the south or Texas. Those attics can get ridiculously hot.:p

I've definitely dropped more cash than most into my home electronics but that's the kind of stuff that interests me. :p Cheers.
 
There's actually quite a few good reasons for Apple to update the AirPort Extreme, though who knows when they will.

From the features standpoint, a strong wireless network is going to be the backbone of Apple's HomeKit integration, which we expect them to heavily feature in the new AppleTV. In fact, it would actually make sense to release a HomeKit optimized/or HomeKit API version of the AirPort Extreme, or at least a firmware update that is automatically configured for it.

From the Technology standpoint:
-802.11ac chipsets and signal quality have improved greatly since the 6th gen was released. Even if they didn't add the below features, consumers would benefit from a newer revision of 802.11ac.
-Multi-user MIMO
-802.11ac Wave 2
-USB 3.0
 
My AirPort Extreme is acting up , I keep having to reboot unplug & replug to make it work right

Should I wait for wwdc in case there's a new one announced
 
Che Castro said:
My AirPort Extreme is acting up , I keep having to reboot unplug & replug to make it work right

Should I wait for wwdc in case there's a new one announced
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Here is a tip... Try using DHCP & NAT mode rather than Bridge Mode and if it keeps dropping out then downgrade the firmware to 7.6.1. That fixed all of the similar issues I had with the one at school.
 
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