![]() See allĪpple AirPort Extreme 802.11ac (6th Generation) review: Interface And in contrast to most routers that reuse the same aerial elements for transmit and receive, the AirPort Extreme has six separate antennae, spaced around the upper section just below the top surface, three each dedicated to either wireless transmission or reception. The Apple router unusually includes a cooling fan inside, although we found this effectively inaudible in normal use. Apple supplies a matching white cable in the box. Instead you just plug in a figure-of-eight (IEC C7) mains lead. Unlike any other router, its power supply is mounted internally, so there is no unsightly wallwart and its twisty-tangly cable to hide. But there are many details that set it up from the larger crowd of routers, which often seem to be based on a reference design from Broadcom that’s been cloned into different-shaped boxes. The two AirPort devices are externally identical, the only difference being the addition of the 2 or 3 TB SATA disk inside the latter unit.Īt its core the AirPort Extreme is a fairly conventional dual-band 11ac router, based on a Broadcom chipset, with three stream capability. This enables straightforward full-system backups of any Apple Mac on the network, with automatic incremental backups every hour. ![]() There are two versions of the AirPort station, the standard Extreme version tested here and the Time Capsule version that includes a 3.5in hard disk inside. ![]()
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