Airport Extreme Base Station, Talk to Me.

sorn21

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Hey,

I'm wondering if you can help me out here, recently given a apple voucher for Christmas,
and I'm looking to invest in the Extreme Base Station.

I've already got a modem/router downstairs (ADSL)
but I'd like a router for my bedroom to start spreading some Gigabyte Ethernet love!
So all I need to do is wire up a Network cable to it?

It's also handy that this has a USB as will surely allow me to add a HDD and sync my MBP wireless, right?

Or would I be better buying a Time Capsule instead, as they seem to do the same job?

Thanks in advance. :confused:
 
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What are you trying to achieve here? Gigabit ethernet doesn't come into the equation as it's going over a wireless bridge, and getting Time Machine to backup to anything other than a Time Capsule is a bit of a hack which isn't supported AFAIK.

Unless your plan is to run a cable from the router downstairs up to your room.
 
Sorry, I should've made that clearer in my OP.

In my room I've currently got my MBP, PC and PS3, and I want to run them over cable so I can stream videos from PC-PS3. I'm also looking into getting a Mac Mini which would be over the same network.

The Router is downstairs just now, but if I ran a network cable to the Base Station which would stay in my bedroom, that's all that's required for it to work, isn't it?

If I bought a Time Capsule then would that do both the job of the Base Station, plus back up the data on my MBP?
 
The Time Capsule is probably better suited to what you want as it has the 3 port gigabit switch built in so you can connect the PS and PS3 with wires, and has the hard drive built in so you can backup your MBP using Time Machine.

If you then connected this via a cable to the router downstairs it would give you a 802.11n network for the MBP to connect to, and a mini gigabit network in your room. You wouldn't use the router functionality of the device but this can be disabled anyway.
 
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The Time Capsule is probably better suited to what you want as it has the 3 port gigabit switch built in so you can connect the PS and PS3 with wires, and has the hard drive built in so you can backup your MBP using Time Machine.

If you then connected this via a cable to the router downstairs it would give you a 802.11n network for the MBP to connect to, and a mini gigabit network in your room. You wouldn't use the router functionality of the device but this can be disabled anyway.
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Thanks that's exactly what I wanted to hear :)

Already have wireless from downstairs but it's unfortunately not N-band.
Ta.
One thing that worries me though, is looking to reviews etc, a lot of people are complaining that the TC seem to die after 18months.
I'd probably be safer buying the Extreme and using a separate HDD?
 
Buy it from a shop with a decent reputation for customer service and then if/when it dies after 18 months take the overwhelming amount of evidence that they all do it and present it as an inherent fault in the design.

It depends on the price of the Extreme and a separate HDD as to whether it's worth doing or not.
 
Well I'd be buying it from Apple using the HE discount.
I've already got a few spare drives I could use including a 1TB, so perhaps it makes sense just going for the Base Station.
 
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