The iMac's & MacPro both support 10/100/1000 base networking. When will the airport express & the 
TV support this too?
TV support this too?
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Gigabit network???
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i don't understand why the Apple TV doesn't, but the Airport express hasn't been updated in ages, who knows if it ever will be either.
Well, regarding the Airport Express - why gigabit?
Unless it is updated to 11n, there is no way it could use anywhere near its current 100Mbit. Not even theoretically. (And if it ever gets updated with 11n, real-world performance won't require gigabit either, but that's a different discussion)
Unless it is updated to 11n, there is no way it could use anywhere near its current 100Mbit. Not even theoretically. (And if it ever gets updated with 11n, real-world performance won't require gigabit either, but that's a different discussion)
Little reason for the Express to have gigabit Ethernet, but it should be updated to n wireless spec by now, imo. Apple is way over-extended it seems.
or they have no plans to update it?
shame because i think its one of the best things they've put out.
I use airport extreme (N + Gigabit) on my gigabit network.
Keep in mind that unless you are transferring between RAIDs, you will not saturate the gigabit network.
Keep in mind that unless you are transferring between RAIDs, you will not saturate the gigabit network.
Yeah, but it is pretty easy for a 100Mbit connection to be the bottleneck. We're not asking for 10Gbit (yet)
Yes, I did mean the wired connection. Sorry, I didn't make my question clear enough. The only time I will use a wireless connection is for my laptop and iPod/ iPhone. I prefer to use wired connections for when streaming media. My next questions would be, if I used the airport with the wired connection can I use it to extend the wireless down to the garden, pretty log garden.
Well, of course. But keep in mind that the Airport Express has exactly ONE (1) wired port.
Streaming audio to it won't require gigabit on that port. Printing to an attached printer won't require gigabit on that port. Wireless 11a/b/g won't require gigabit on that port.
So, what good would gigabit do?
Agreed, it is brilliant. It'd be nice if they offered an 'n' one, to keep all their products "up to date".
The cable and device connected mainly. ISP's providing gigabit is not in the near future, sorry. It will need to be fiber optic. THe main benefit for gigabit is networking, i.e. transferring files.
It could probably pass 100 base/t on coaxial, fiber channels wouldn't be required to the houses, at least i don't think so. I could be wrong though.
I was meaning it could pass over 100MB/s over Coaxial so eventually it might be worth upgrading the ethernet connection.
I keep saying this every time this comes up - where are they going to cram the extra antennas for n? Why do you think the iPhone/iPod Touch don't have N, either??
Gigabit speed is the cable in the main.
Put it like this:
A low-cost Gigabit NAS will actually deliver barely-Megabit speeds to Gigabit wire.
If you buy a Gigabit device, the only thing that is guaranteed is that it will talk on a Gigabit network. It is not a guarantee of Gigabit speeds on that network.
Take a look at the frequency it runs at. Then go look at what N is capable of running on. (in the new extreme for ex) Is apple really going to offer a crippled N product? I doubt it.
The Airport Express is much bigger compared to that USB stick, and it draws power from an actual electrical socket rather than a little USB port... with these extra room (compared to the USB tick) and power, and with Apple's engineering team, I don't see why it can't be done.
Yes, it may not have the performance of those Linksys with 3 external antennas, but it should still offer much better performance than the current non-antenna 11g Express.