Wrighty
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Registered: 28th Feb 04
Location: Howden
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just wondering if anyone runs either of these at home/at work or whatever what benefits you saw from installing one?
my netgear router sometimes doesnt allow my iphone to connect it just says 'unable to connect' but then it might joing it randomly 5mins later when it can iv tried loads to fix it but im hardly on wifi as the routers at my desk and my deskop/ps3 are wired
rather then replace my router which other wise works great, i was thinking about adding an airport or time capsule to my setup to serve the wireless at mine, claims up to 5x wifi performance for 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi devices such at my iphone, macbook and its dual band so my apple stuff will run on a different band to everyone elses laptops
thoughts?
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Rick Draper
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Registered: 10th Feb 01
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I run a Extreme, far better signal strength around the house than the woeful Sky router. I was struggling for signal strength in a room about 10 meters away from the Sky, now a considerable distance away I still have signal.
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PhilC
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Registered: 21st Jan 06
Location: Lancs, UK
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I have a time capsule, my array wipes the floor with it. 
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PhilC
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Registered: 21st Jan 06
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The new apple AP's are 3x3 also, meaning 450mbps with a capable client.
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
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I use the latest time capsule (which is essiently airport extreme with a built in HDD).
Its noticably faster on the idevices than my old netgear.
I switched 3 years ago for the same problems your experiencing below.
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
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Wireless on the timecap isn't great... just get a new router
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Swapping to any equivalently specced router will surely be the same step up from a 5 year old ISP supplied netgear 
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
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I find they only actually like to N with Apple products as well (surprise surprise)
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Bart
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
Wireless on the timecap isn't great... just get a new router
Hows that? Dual Band wireness N?
Has been fantastic for me.
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Dom
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Registered: 13th Sep 03
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Swapping to any equivalently specced router will surely be the same step up from a 5 year old ISP supplied netgear
Would rather an Asus (N55/56/66) or a TP-Link over anything Apple; would be equally as good if not better tbf.
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Wrighty
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Registered: 28th Feb 04
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deffo looking for some dual band business to suit my other apple stuff over another netgear tbf, its been good but if im gonna invest might aswell be in a timecap/airport and let it serve the wifi on dual band
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John
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Apple aren't the only people doing 5GHz n.
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PhilC
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Registered: 21st Jan 06
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http://www.xirrus.com/Products/Wireless-Arrays.aspx
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