On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 12:43 PM, Jim Scolman wrote:
Good morning All, I live in the Seattle area and we have all of the electronic and office big box stores, independent Apple dealers, and at least two Apple Stores. I am getting ready to go home wireless with my Pismo, and in reading the Sunday paper and all of the ads, my question is this; why do I need Airport, when there are several name brand WiFi routers on sale for less than $100.00? Aside from Apple loyalty, and the "cool" factor, which may be negligent as the router is often in a place where the casual visitor to your home may not see it and therefor not be impressed by your "cool" factor, is there a compelling technical factor for using an Airport over any of the other good products on the market ? I have been a rabid Mac user since 1985 and love the "look and feel" of the products and how they work, and work, and work! Thanks Jim.As far as routers go, the only reason to get the Apple base station is that it is easier to set WEP. Personally I use a Linksys router/access point without any problems. In my house we have a mixture of Mac and Win machines so setting WEP is a little more tricky so I just leave my network unencrypted.
As far as I am concerned the Apple base station is just way to expensive. 802.11b/g are standards so any router should work.
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