Airport extreme base station basic question

[kidstretch]

Hello, I searched for an answer but didn't quite get a clear one.
Is the airport extreme base station both a modem and a router?
I mean can I connect it straight to the telephone line and have access to the Internet? If not, why the hell should I buy one since the other modems are routers too all in one device and can share Internet?
Honestly I couldn't find a normal answer.
Thanks!

 

[Macman45]

No, it's a gigabit router and AP. why should you buy one? Because the ISP supplied rooter / modem combos are hopeless, and if you price other all in ones of similar quality to Apples offering you will find they are priced around the same.

 

[ea9]

Hello, I searched for an answer but didn't quite get a clear one.
Is the airport extreme base station both a modem and a router?
I mean can I connect it straight to the telephone line and have access to the Internet? If not, why the hell should I buy one since the other modems are routers too all in one device and can share Internet?
Honestly I couldn't find a normal answer.
Thanks!

It's not a modem.
It does a lot of other things very well, that's why.

 

[miles01110]

I mean can I connect it straight to the telephone line and have access to the Internet? If not, why the hell should I buy one since the other modems are routers too all in one device and can share Internet?

Because modem/router combinations suck? And if you are seriously connecting to the internet via telephone line you should probably just stick with a dedicated modem.

 

[kidstretch]

I see what you mean and thank you.
So, can anyone suggest a good modem router that is Apple friendly?

 

[ea9]

I see what you mean and thank you.
So, can anyone suggest a good modem router that is Apple friendly?

They should all be apple friendly.

 

[Bear]

I see what you mean and thank you.
So, can anyone suggest a good modem router that is Apple friendly?

Doesn't your ISP provide one? You said phone line, so I presume that it's some variant of DSL. Without knowing that exact variant, any hardware suggestions we make could be a waste of time.

Anyway, any one that has an ethernet port will work. And that should be all of them at this point.

 

[ea9]

Because modem/router combinations suck? And if you are seriously connecting to the internet via telephone line you should probably just stick with a dedicated modem.

Maybe I misunderstood your comment ? What's wrong with connecting through phone line ?

 

[kidstretch]

My line is ADSL. The problem is that lately I have some dropouts on the wifi when trying to watch videos to my Atv2, buffering issues etc, so I figured I would buy a newer model.

 

[whoathere]

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Because modem/router combinations suck? And if you are seriously connecting to the internet via telephone line you should probably just stick with a dedicated modem.

Maybe I misunderstood your comment ? What's wrong with connecting through phone line ?

Maybe he is referring to dial up

 

[ea9]

My line is ADSL. The problem is that lately I have some dropouts on the wifi when trying to watch videos to my Atv2, buffering issues etc, so I figured I would buy a newer model.

Exactly why you want to let the AE take care of the WiFi job.