Just a shot in the dark - maybe we'll see AirPlay functionality integrated into the Airport Extreme. Audio, HDMI...
Hey, I can hope, right?
Hey, I can hope, right?
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In the UK cable Internet Service Providers now supply nice hubs with the wireless, modem, and ports included which make the Airport redundant unless the new one has something special.
In the UK cable Internet Service Providers now supply nice hubs with the wireless, modem, and ports included which make the Airport redundant unless the new one has something special.
Yes, but in the UK the free hubs are absolute crap and hence I plug my crappy hub directly into my Airport. Many others do the same. Plus, the Airport has a USB port into which I can plug in my printer. The Airport never needs rebooting just to get online.
Yeah that has been the case with US ISPs for a couple years now as well, but that still doesn't make the AirPort redundant because some of them don't come with 802.11n, and even fewer come with dual-band 5Ghz capability. There is always features that will be lacking though, especially with the dummy proof Time Machine wireless backup you can do with a Time Capsule. Plus the setup interface is a lot easier to manage than the firmware on other routers.
you'd think they would wait till lion was released
Especially because if it had iCloud features, it wouldn't be in line with lion yet... makes you wonder if there will be any iCoud + (TimeCapsule/Airport Extreme/Airport Express) features tied together.... it seems unlikely with a release today (before lion)
Im not sure if it means anything but the USA pages for Airport / Wifi now shows "New" and the UK does not...
http://www.apple.com/uk/wifi/
http://www.apple.com/wifi/
People say no aluminum because it interferes with signal, but couldn't they make the casing the actual antenna like they did with the iphone 4?
From what i remember Aluminium isn't a good material for an antenna.
I do still use a 2007 AEBS but will only upgrade if the new model has significant advantages over and above the current hubs.
Plus, what if people hold it wrong?!?
People say no aluminum because it interferes with signal, but couldn't they make the casing the actual antenna like they did with the iphone 4?
From what i remember Aluminium isn't a good material for an antenna.
Plus, what if people hold it wrong?!?
Seems good on the iphone. But maybe 3G antennas are very different.
Excuse the dumb question here, but my Time Capsule died the other day (2 yr old) and I want to replace it when these come out.
My question is, if I get an airport extreme and an external hard drive is that the same as a time capsule? Do I lose out on anything?
I was wondering if the bottleneck would be the USB on the time capsule, but the transfer speed of the hard drive on the old time capsule was horrible anyway so I don't know?
Iphone 4 has a stainless steel surround.
Excuse the dumb question here, but my Time Capsule died the other day (2 yr old) and I want to replace it when these come out.
My question is, if I get an airport extreme and an external hard drive is that the same as a time capsule? Do I lose out on anything?
I was wondering if the bottleneck would be the USB on the time capsule, but the transfer speed of the hard drive on the old time capsule was horrible anyway so I don't know?
The bottleneck will the the speed of the internet connection or the ethernet cable in all likelihood. And what you loose out on going the AEBS route is space since you need two devices now, not only 1.
I've only used a Time Capsule so I'll skip the first part of your question, but as for USB bottlenecks - if you're using a wifi connection then that's going to be your bottleneck; if you're using Gb LAN then the SATA interface will, I think, be quicker than USB but the fact is once you've got your initial big backup done, the hourly incremental backups usually only take a couple of minutes anyway so I don't think any slowdown from internal to USB is actually going to be significant. Of course, if you spend every day video editing producing big file changes between every backup or use processor-instensive applications that suffer a hit when TM is running, it may be a different issue. But for most people, I'd say not a problem.
Oh, and it's one less power cable!