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Recommendations please. I just want to plug it into the wall and make a WiFi network in the house.
We use laptop, iPad and iPhone. Also have a network hard drive which we connect to it to share music and photos everywhere in the house.
Should I go with the Apple one as I hope it is the simplest to use or is there one which is half the price and twice as fast? What am I looking for?!
Cheers.
Argh, sorry wrong forum! Move to chat please.
I guess you've got broadband i the house? is the router a wifi router?
I've just upgraded the pooey router that Orange give you to an Apple Airport. I still use the pooey-orange as a modem, but that's wired into the Airport which manages and provides the wi-fi.
An airport made sense for me because all my computers/phones are apple - so it all just works without me having to get involved beyond pluging it in! Also the Aiport has a USB port, which I can connect external hard-drives to, which take care of regular backups and houses my iTunes library. This is great because I can hide them away in a cupboard, and never have to physically connect them to my laptop.
As for speed - it's noticably quicked than the orange one (an N-speed Belkin or netgear), which I think comes doen to the fact that it's dual band. In reality this means I can stream HD movies to my telly without it stuttering, the old one couldn't do this.
Price is comperable to other dual-band N-compliant routers I think.
Hope that helps
As above, watch out for the fact that Apple stuff doesn't include the modem. I've got my old nearer router plugged into my timecapsule to provide that function.
Wow! Thanks for the tip re modem and router. I forgot they were separate bits of equipment!
I've got an Airport that I use to make my printer wireless and to stream music to my hifi, it works very well.
One question:
Does it pick up my wireless signal and boost it? Or will it only work as a router if I plug my Virgin wireless router/modem into it directly?