Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Thanks, Scott. It's quite clear to me that you know a lot more about the who's who at this level than I do. I defer to you on this. I've just learned a lot, and I thank you for that. Seems to me if companies like Akamai, who I understand makes a business of media delivery, are happy with, and

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Well, first, I had actually built one of the first privately held rings so I was bringing in circuits of all sizes. I had a DS3 run in to my mother’s house at one point where I started my first ISP and then we moved we went to an OC12 then OC48 configuration with channel cards breaking out all

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Ah, T3. How I used to drool over those speeds--beyond the range of the possible, and why would you ever need that much as a single user? And, here today's it's barely qualifying as broadband speed! I hear you about open peering, but would you want your Netflicks stream to come across that way?

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

I’ll tell you what I remember about UUNet, $40,000 monthly for a DS3.:). Seems like another life time ago. Another thing I remember vividly about UUNet was when they went from an open peering network to very closed and depeered with everyone, including me.:). Then again I was always an open

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Ah, WorldCom. How well I remember the days of dialup around the planet with my local access number for uu.net! I had to place an international call for tech support on my first trip to Japan. I'd not previously encountered stutter tone as dialtone, and I couldn't remember the Hayes command to

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Well, I am in Northern Virginia about 3 blocks away from where UUNET HQ was in the 1990's. They eventually moved out west of Dulles Airport in 1999 / 2000 after being bought by WorldCom. Why do I mention UUNET? Because Verizon bought WorldCom for pennies on the dollar after fraudulent

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Hi, Scott: Wow! Believe it or not, I remember that Verizon IPv6 page. It gave me hope while I still had FiOS at my last address over 5 years ago! As I recall, they were testing dual stack with Verizon employees in Northern Virginia. What seems to be missing, and I went and looked, is anykind of

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Hi Janina, here is a page detailing IPV6 on VZ. This looks somewhat out of date but it’s the only thing I could find that’s officially from VZ. https://www.verizon.com/support/consumer/consumer-education/ipv6 Also found a

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Well, it saddens me to agree that Comcast service bites the big one. If my issue is simple and straight forward, I can usually get good service, but anything slightly above Level One support is bound to take time and persistance. Scott Granados writes: > You know what bugged me worse than the

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

This is good to know, Scott. I'm glad they're finally rolling IPv6 on FiOS. Do you know if they have a page documenting their rollout? For the record Ipv6 is long since rolled out on T-Mobile across the U.S., predating their rollout of LTE. Their prefix is 2607:fb90 ... On some phones, you may

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

You know what bugged me worse than the network performance, the lower quality television and the instability in my area of Comcast was the customer service. By far the absolute worst I have run in to. Made me wish for the days of AT, that should tell you something. I have the reverse issue

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

FYI FIOS is rolling out V6 now. It’s not in my area yet but it is under way. There’s also talk of which routers you need to support it, luckily mine is one of the models that does. Like you I used a tunnel breaker before, in my case I worked with Hurricane electric but there are many

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

I should have read the rest of this thread before posting the below. Oh, I still feel this way, but all ya'all are also talking about wired cable telivision, and I didn't pay for that when I hadmy FiOS. I went straight from my ONT to my in home Linux server over cat6 cabling. Verizon tried to

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Hi, Mary: I used to drool over FiOS, then I got it and I was sort of happy. However,s hortly thereafter I was forced to move, and I ended up moving where FiO was unavailable. So, I settled for Comcast, i.e. Xfinity. Now, I'll not go back to FiOS even if I could for one simple reason. Xfinity

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Hi, Scott: Two answers to your question about throughput on Linksys. First, my personal experience is with the WRT1900AC, first rev. It was easily the fastest I'd ever worked with. I say this in the past tense, because I blew it up and it no longer boots. I'm just not good with tasks like

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

True, with regard to Comcast and the talking menus. However, the prices are out rages, unacceptably so. They take advantage of their monopoly position in markets where they have that. Notice the difference between Comcast pricing where there is competition and where there isn't. I live in an

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

They have that’s true and Comcast does have the talking menus but on the down side, you’re on the Comcast network. The HD performance is shameful and over compressed, the DVR is not nearly as feature packed and you do not have equivalent upload and download speeds. You’re also on some shared

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

On the down side they still have not enabled the required talking menus like Comcast. ComCast has certainly supported the disabled and the veterans, Best wishes, Jonathan > On Nov 24, 2016, at 7:21 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > > It’s really

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

You East Coast guys get the good stuff. Out here in the wilds of Oregon, we get well I won't say it because this is a family list. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 24, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > > It’s really fantastic other than they don’t support

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

It’s really fantastic other than they don’t support IPV6 yet in my area. Otherwise it’s the best home service I’ve ever had. With the quantum service you get up to 500 megabits (last I look it might even be more), you can record up to 12 shows at a time and have hundreds of hours of record

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

I am jealous of you people with Fios. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 24, 2016, at 3:24 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > > I’ve never been able to push more than 18 megabits through any of the WRT > routers I’ve tried but honestly I jumped off their band wagon once

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

I have not gotten it to work but I plan on spending more time on this tomorrow. I am trying to connect an AirPort Extreme to an actiontech but so far no joy. It’s very likely the guy on this side of the keyboard though so far. Will update as I continue experimenting. > On Nov 24, 2016, at

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

I’ve never been able to push more than 18 megabits through any of the WRT routers I’ve tried but honestly I jumped off their band wagon once Cisco bought them. This is a huge issue in Cisco gear and has been for their entire life. They are known for not providing wire speed solutions. I

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Hi! I think you can but i am not sure. My Airport extreme is the newer one with ac support and i’ll definitly keep it as long as it lives. /A > 23 nov. 2016 kl. 04:30 skrev Mary Otten : > > OK, Scott. I await your results with interest. > Mary > > > Sent from my iPhone > >

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Hi Scott, I have used four or five models of WRT family for about 10 years, recommended them nearly wholesale to customers, and never experienced any issue where trafic on forwarded ports would be comparatively slower than trafic taking place on a direct connection with no router at all.

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Scott, I'd be interested in your results as well. I've connected Airport Expresses via ethernet to other networks and the Airplay feature remains as easy as ever. I don't have any non-Apple Home routers though to test with to see if WDS or whatever the newest connection method is, will work.

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Hi Janina, I thought like most Cisco products the links’s devices had poor forwarding rates. In other words, they only forward at a third to a half of the line rate. Has this changed in more recent years or does WRT also help to address this with better more optimized software? Thanks Scott

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

It's a couple years old now, but I regard the Linksys WRT1900AC as still a top choice, but not for its native software because It's not all that accessible. This router runs OpenWRT brilliantly, and OpenWRT is fully accessible. http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt_ac_series PS: I have no

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Wow, that router kicks ass. Only seen it on youtube, but will consider a purchase later down the road og the digital highway. Good tips Scott. Hit the subscribe and like button for this guy that have taken time to make at least 3 video guides. Have only seen one video and a purchase will not

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

OK, Scott. I await your results with interest. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 22, 2016, at 7:06 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > > Mary, this is a very good question. I have not tried this, I will set this > up in my lab over the weekend and see what I can come up

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Mary, this is a very good question. I have not tried this, I will set this up in my lab over the weekend and see what I can come up with in case nobody else responds in the mean time. I would suspect it’s possible and quite easy but not having done it I want to try before I confirm. > On Nov

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

OK, I am curious. I have an airport extreme which is working fine, and I have to airport expresses connected to stereos because I have airplay and I love it. I know the AirPort Extreme is old, it doesn't even have AC, much less the one that comes after that. So here's the question. Where I

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Kawal, I have been using this router for several months. If cost is a factor, this might be of interest. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Without H2O there is no life! ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 11/22/2016

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Here is the one Scott recommends. Says you get good range, and it is very secure. On reading upon it, it also has a lot of forwarding features, and parental controls for those with kids. https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Nighthawk-X10-802-11ac-Quad-Stream/dp/B01M12RE4A/ref=cm_cd_al_qh_dp_t

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

I like my Airport Extreme so if it breaks down I'm not sure what I'm going to do. So I too will want to know a good reliable router if this breaks down. > On 22 Nov 2016, at 09:26, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > > Uh oh, so what’s a good and accessible wireless router in

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Uh oh, so what’s a good and accessible wireless router in case my old trusty Airport Extreme breaks down on me? /Krister > 21 nov. 2016 kl. 23:52 skrev Dan D. : > > > >

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