Netgear and Fritz, mainly. By the way I’d buy a new AirPort by Apple. I owned 2 and they were reliable and easy to configure.
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That was true for the first generation: I had one and was replaced under warranty. Following generations fixed the problem and were reliable.
You excused their making of certain doodads because "they stand out". Somehow, in your confusion, you exclude their being able to make routers stand out. Despite the fact that they've already done so.
Something accretive to their bottom line expresses it's good to their bottom line. I know you had to open a dictionary for that. So look up "good" -- it's also an adjective.
The world already had headphones from Bose and Sony and Bowers and Sennheiser and AT and Apple chose to enter the category.
Being a mature anything company is exactly the reason to seek categories for growth. Mature companies aren't rewarded with high multiples.
Who or why did you think advocated for Apple making products to lose money. Do you have issues with reading comprehension?
I had the first gen. AirPort Express in use for 10 years. First as main wifi AP, later as a secondary AP next to the 1st gen AirPort Extreme. Worked great for years where I lived back then; most of my neighbours had no wifi. Never saw any reason to get the newer models during that time. I had all my computers mostly on wired ethernet.
Years a ago I installed a R7000 Night Hawk modem/router at a friend's house. I liked Netgear stuff back then, but after two years I got disappointed by their firmware support. The R7000 wifi didn't perform as good/fast as advertised. The router UI was sluggish and at random moments it changed the subnet configuration from 10.0.xx.xx to 192.168.xx.xx for no logical reason. But when I found out that HomeKit and other IPv6 multicast protocols like Bonjour were disrupted by the Netgear GS-line switches we had, sold it all. Reported all the bugs, but hardly got response and when they did respond, it was a basic template email basically saying that I had to buy new. So I did... from a different brand.
TimeCapsule was great, but it was vulnerable for problems. A friends of mine had these and one of them I had to completely clear its disk a few times because it got corrupted quickly. Much later I found out that it was partly cause by the first versions of the TimeMachine protocol, and power outages that had occurred. The HFS+ disk format could not always recover automatically from those incidents. So, if Apple designs a new TC, they better use at least two disks and a more robust file system. But I doubt that they will.
But I'm in the market for a PoE powered wifi AP with supporting Thread border router. Would fit perfectly in a future workshop.
I liked the Airport devices - they indeed just-worked. The big plus was that they supported IPv6 from day one. The negatives were the very limited firewall options and it only supported ethernet WAN. For two decades I've been using Draytek modem/routers because of their built-in modem, extended firewall, IPv6 support. Combined with a Apple Airport Express and Extreme it worked perfect in a time when very few neighbours around my house had wifi back then.
When I moved to a bigger house 7 years ago, the Airport Extreme couldn't cover the area anymore. The internal antennas were not that perfect, plus the European Airport model's are more limited in RF power and the US models. With more interfering wifi signals from the new neighbours, our wifi was annoyingly slower than in my previous house with the same Airport Extreme. It got so annoying that I rapidly replaced the Airport Extreme with a professional AP: WAX650S (PoE, 2.5G ethernet, wifi6). Up to today that one single unit covers the whole house with way more bandwidth than we had. With growing kids that use more wifi these days with iCloud services, streaming services, TimeMachine backups, video calls, Airplay and other bandwidth demanding tasks, it was a good purchase.
It would be great if an Apple wifi chip could double as a mesh router. Would turn an industry on it's side.
Ubiquiti’s gear is “the apple of network gear”, and the company was started I believe (someone correct if I’m wrong) by former Apple folks. More prosumer or SMB on their unifi line than pure consumer, but solid and well built.
Netgear’s mesh systems are pretty great too, more directly consumer oriented
Yeah I just recently got Ubiquiti Unifi router for first time and whole package and style of router etc reminds me so much of Apple and even their software side looks nice and polished with all advance stuff.
