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AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule Out of Stock at U.S. Apple Stores [Updated]
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I have never, and I do mean never had trouble with any of the Netgear stuff I have owned. In all cases I had a modem/router which was;
- One box, not two.
- One less cable.
- One less powerpoint needed.
- Less power burned?
Nope. The vast majority of ISP's have a "free" router with a $10/mo. lease or bill addition. You may not have to buy it, but you do have to rent it.
For the entirety of my life, I've always had to pay a separate charge for a modem. And additional charge for a wireless router. I'm not sure what your context for vast majority is, but if it's just your experiences, then that's pretty very little. Comcast, Charter, and XFinity are services with large customer bases that charge separate fees, for example.
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Darn, it looks like it won't be updated at all. Just some regulation fix for Apple to keep selling ancient hardware.
On a side note, those new Eero things available in the US look really cool and they seem to have some strong claims and even stronger reviews. Unfortunately only available in the US right now, do any of you guys have them? They seem like the answer to my WiFi related prayers.
I pay one fee per month for internet, phone and cable, no additional fees at all; the router/modem is included in the base price, and they will not discount me of I chose to have my own cable modem. Two years ago, they were charging $6 per month, but with the new price structure, it is all for one price.
Thanks for this post. I saw the blinking light on my downstairs time capsule last night and rebooted it. Now I know I need to update the firmware on both of the time capsules.
I think they kept the form factor because of the antennas. I don't expect the next airport extreme to be any shorter.
I returned the Comcast modem and had the $10/month rental fee removed from my bill, no questions asked and they didn't even try to up-sell me on anything. You have to go to their "local" service center to return their modem, in my case it was only 1 county away, but they gladly took it back. Never, ever, call them to ask about anything. Their phone based support is only trained to increase your bill, the service center on the other hand has always been friendly and efficient other than their location.
I wonder if/when Apple will update the Time Capsule to use an SSD drive? You can get a 4TB SSD from OWC now (https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/SSDA13MP4.0K/). With this, you get more storage, faster storage, and make it thinner at the same time! Note: I do know that the price is super expensive, but it's definitely possible.
[doublepost=1464367460][/doublepost]Shsht, don't let smacrumon see this.Antennas are popular with consumers. They want Apple to sell something like this....
He'll have a heart attack and let's not talk about anything with the word antenna in it!
Antennas are popular with consumers. They want Apple to sell something like this....
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Antennas are popular with consumers. They want Apple to sell something like this....
Flip it upside down and equip those ethernet ports with some lasers, and you're ready for an alien invasion.
I don't think this is the issue. All this FCC requirement does is require wireless router manufacturers to update to a firmware that prevents the installation of hacked firmware builds that enable either unauthorized channels, or power boosts to authorized channels. Apple has known this is coming for over two years now and they could have easily rolled that firmware into the production line for their wireless devices during that time period if this is the issue.
As I understand the FCC rule, I believe Apple's routers are already compliant with this requirement anyway. Apple's router firmware appears to be closed source and I have not seen any hacks to enable the issues the FCC rule addresses.
This FCC rule is IMO aimed more at routers that allow open source packages like some of the WRT variants to be installed on their routers. Asus just rolled out an update that will block variants of these packages that can access the relevant wireless settings.
There has been quite a bit of discussion on this topic on the Asus Merlin firmware threads on SmallNetBuilder the last couple months or so.
I wouldn't the airports to get Siri as Siri currently is. I would rather they just get rid of Siri and replace it with Google now
That makes no sense. A cloud backup only would take sooo much longer to make, and quite a while to restore from.
The actual smart move that follows best practices would be to keep the time capsule AND add a cloud backup option.
this way you have your data backed up locally for the quickest back up making /restoring /browsing AND an offsite copy in an encrypted cloud. The only purpose for a cloud backup is if your house burns down or your primary backup medium fails.
The timing and geographical limits of this stock outage can hardly be coincidental, though I wonder as you do why Apple would still have noncompliant product in the pipeline years after the FCC requirement became known.
Not necessarily faster..
Even with a gigabit copper connection to the time capsule, you still won't saturate the write speed of a standard 7200RPM HDD..
You might get marginally better read/seek times on SSD, but again, your bottleneck is the bandwidth from your ethernet cable, not anywhere near the speed of SATA.
The only real advantage SSD has, comes from multiple random access. So if you have 3 or 4 Macs backing up at the same time, then yes. They will all finish their backups faster than they would on a HDD.