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FCC Documents Confirm New AirPort Extreme

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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.
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Yes some ISP offer free hubs in the UK but with poor wifi! I have the new BT HH3 and had the latest netgear, which I use now as a modem only with my Extreme connected providing the wifi -better signal and better throughput.

A Time Capsule is faster at backing up would be nice!
 
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So ive been lurking for nearly 2 years now. I just got my first time capsule for father's day. Wife bought it off of amazon and it arrived on time. Much to my dismay the 1TB hd was damaged. I contacted the seller and he will be refunding the money. So now to the question. Anyone have any clue what the price point will be on the new time capsules and what that will do to the pice of the older 1TB time capsules? I know it is just speculation, but after 2 years of lurking i know that your speculation is often right on!
 
PeckhamBog said:
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.
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tibi08 said:
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.
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Please note I said NOW as both BT and VM have N hubs with integrated wireless, four [not three] ethernet ports, and the BT one boasts a USB port too. BT now brag about smart wireless technology that deals with interference on theirs.

ovrlrd said:
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.
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Again, the current model BT and VM are supplying are 802.11n and are plug and play from the off. The interface for those who want to tinker is both straight forward accessed from a browser and very flexible.

I do still use a 2007 AEBS but will only upgrade if the new model has significant advantages over and above the current hubs.

I don't put this post up for a battle, simply to add info relevant to the UK. :)
 
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?
 
arian19 said:
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)
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They could just release it early and offer new features via software updates
 
I'm hoping for the big changes to be on the inside - anything radically different on the outside and the Mrs tends to notice...

Don't think I'd get away with "Oh, I decided to paint it black" :rolleyes:
 
PeckhamBog said:
I do still use a 2007 AEBS but will only upgrade if the new model has significant advantages over and above the current hubs.
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I see your point but the simultaneous bands for optimized performance, guest networking, time machine backups, back to my mac built in to access drives from external networks, wireless printing, are all quite nice features I doubt your ISP provided router offers (I've never seen an isp give that kind of a router unless they charge for it). And those are only the current features the Apple routers provide. I'm sure they wouldn't have updated the device if no new additional features were being added, whatever they may be. It's going to be a nice treat whatever it is.
 
JohnDoe98 said:
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?
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I'm just so wishing I had the skill and time to do a Photoshop mockup of an aluminium AE with a complimentary black plastic and rubber bumper wrapped around the edge of it.
 
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?
 
I ordered 1tb time capsule a week ago from the UK Apple store. It has a dispatch date of the 27th, if they release new products today, what's the odds they will swap it for it's updated equivalent?
 
I am hoping for a $99 price point on the base station. I doubt it'll happen, but that's the price I'm willing to pay for a router. $179 = crackpipe.
 
sp3ctre said:
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?
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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.
 
sp3ctre said:
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?
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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!
 
JohnDoe98 said:
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.
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Thanks, although speeds were horrible even when I was connected via gigabit ethernet to be honest (compared to copying to other parts of the network it was a LOT slower). Space is not an issue for me either as this is going to sit in the attic.
 
NightFox said:
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!
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Thanks, makes sense.. might go for the TC, but I guess it depends on the price point
 
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