The airport extreme is actually very nice, esp for the price.
A lot of N routers/APs don't even give you Gig ports.  Why
bother if the Wifi can do 300Mbit and the wired is only 100.

On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 09:41:04PM -0700, maccrawj wrote:
> Make sure you read up on it vs. the linksys WRT610's!
> 
> Oh, and screw apple anything for various reason even if they poop gold eggs!
> 
> 
> On 5/9/2010 5:24 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
> > Naw...I'll stick with the Netgear that you mentioned. I was just trying
> > to explain to Duncan about the port and mentioned why the USB port could
> > be nice....but I use Windows 7 homegroups, so I can easly move files
> > between PCs. And my printer is wireless too, so I can print to it from
> > the various computers. The Airport seems more for mac users to me...my
> > 3700 should be hear early this week...
> >
> > On 5/9/2010 5:01 AM, Naushad, Zulfiqar wrote:
> >> Get an Apple Extreme Router then. It should fit the bill.
> >>
> >> They are good routers too.
> >>
> >>
> >> Please note my new mobile number listed in my signature.
> >>
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> >> Zulfiqar Naushad
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> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
> >> [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Q.
> >> Martin
> >> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 11:55 AM
> >> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> >> Subject: Re: [H] 1000 Mbps vs 100 Mpbs????
> >>
> >> Yeah, but some of the other routers seem to offer much higher
> >> performance in this area. Backups aren't the only thing...moving files
> >> and share files are other good reasons to have a cheap USB drive on the
> >> router.
> >>
> >> On 5/9/2010 1:37 AM, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote:
> >>> Aside from small files yes, the usb is dog slow for backups or
> >> anything of
> >>> that sort.
> >>>
> >>> It's more of a handy thing other than anything.
> >>>
> >>> If you're serious about backups, a NAS would be more "proper".
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Anthony Q.
> >> Martin<amar...@charter.net>wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Duncan,
> >>>>
> >>>> At lot of the dual-band wirless N routers have a usb port of them for
> >>>> connecting an HD that is then available to machines connected for
> >> backups
> >>>> etc. over the network. One disadvantage of the WNDR3700 is that it is
> >> really
> >>>> slow for file transfers even on a 1Gbit network (which you'd have if
> >> you
> >>>> have it). So, that's the one of two negatives about this router.
> >> Still, I'm
> >>>> going to get it as they all have pros and cons.
> >>>>
> >>>> On 5/8/2010 7:27 PM, DSinc wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Anthony,
> >>>>> What do you mean by, "Too bad the storage is so slow, though." ??
> >>>>> If your current router is only capable of 10/100, then your current
> >> LAN is
> >>>>> only capable of 10/100. Even with G-Bit cards installed in devices.
> >>>>> I think, anyway.
> >>>>> Duncan
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 05/08/2010 15:32, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Yes, as Bryan says and I have confirmed. I guess I didn't realize
> >> how
> >>>>>> long it has been since I paid any attention to my network. Even
> >> with the
> >>>>>> powerline adapters, which claim a max throughput of 200 Mbps, I'd
> >> have
> >>>>>> to get a newer& better router to get that (or the best real world
> >>>>>> numbers I can get).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> So, I guess I'll go with the Netgear WNDR3700 if no one else chimes
> >> in
> >>>>>> with a reason not too. It seems to be rated as highly as any other
> >> and
> >>>>>> has some cool features. Too bad the storage is so slow, though.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 5/8/2010 3:20 PM, Gaffer wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On Saturday 08 May 2010 18:23:39 Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I'm using a linksys wrt54g with a wsb24 booster.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> My mothers claim to do 1000 Mbps yet on file transfers I only get
> >>>>>>>> like 11 MB/s which is more like 100Mpbs/8 = 12.5 MB/s. If my
> >> wired
> >>>>>>>> network is running at 1000 Mbps shouldn't I bet getting around
> >> 125
> >>>>>>>> MB/s file transfers over the wired network?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> What gives?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Your speeds will only be as fast as the slowest link in the chain.
> >> If I
> >>>>>>> recall the wrt54g is only 10/100 Mbs on the Ethernet ports.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
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