Mary, few points here. First, you should have 0 interoperability issues. Scott's response earlier was right on the money.
That being said, you might want to look at other brands. People are doing cool things with routers and switches out there and depending on your home connection and the speed of your service you want a router that will keep up. You will notice a huge bump in performance simply by upgrading rom that linksys to something else since linksys had poor forwarding engines. Check out the DLink products as well and remember that even though software is included with these routers you do not have to use it. They are all configurable through the web. Definitely feel secure in going with Apple though. On Feb 19, 2011, at 4:47 AM, Mary Otten wrote: > Hi all, > > We have an old linksys router that has served us wonderfully for several > years. But it is time to move on and upgrade to something that will give us > higher speed wireless, now that none of our wireless devices require the > older 208-11G protocol. Between us, we have an IPod, IPad and an Android > phone that will connect wirelessly as well as a pc laptop. And we have pc and > mac desktops that will connect via wire, except perhaps for my Mac if there > aren't enough cable connections on the airport extreme. I'd like to get the > Airport Extreme, but my sighted husband is worried about connectivity with > his pcs. I was so impressed with the ease of set up with the airport express > and the Mac and am quite wary of the newer pc-oriented routers that all seem > to want you to install proprietary software, unlike our old linksys. So, does > anybody have experience in setting up an airport extreme in this environment? > What can one do about the limited number of cable connections for wired > computer set up off the router? If this isn't sufficiently vo-related, reply > off list would be find, but I hope it fits within the criteria for the list, > since one of my reasons for wanting to go this route is to ensure > accessibility of set up and compatibility with my Mac and other I-devices. > > Mary > > Mary Otten > motte...@gmail.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
