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My AirPort Extreme Base Station showed up this morning. So I quickly replaced my D-Link 4300 Router with it...

Setup

As all things apple....amazing easy...pop in the setup CD, install and after a reboot away you go...The swap out of the routers was easy enough. Once that was done the new airport base software quickly found the router. It then guides you through a setup wizard that hits all the major features. After this it was a few quick manual steps and done. The manual steps might not be needed in all cases..i just needed to change the IP ranges the router was giving...we have a network printer with a static IP.

Performance

This thing flies. There is 1) a huge speed increase (WAN as well as LAN) and 2) range has greatly increased. I now have a full signal from across the house. The D-Link gave 1/2 to 3/4 of a full signal. I haven't done any file upload tests as of yet.

Extras

So heres the cool stuff...I plugged in one of those g-tech mobile g-drives into the AirPort Extreme Base Station. Instantly I get a message on my macbook asking for a password (dont need to set one if you dont want). After that was entered the drive was mounted on the desktop. Just that easy. Thinking about getting like a 4 gig flash drive and putting that in there. There are also tools that get installed with the initial cd for configuring the drive behavior and options.

All in all its a great wireless router. Well worth the money and its very nice looking to boot!

Moving to the reviews section.

Sounds really nice

I was wondering if you could split the usb port with a usb hub perhaps and run both a usb hard drive and a usb printer.

Might be worth trying out.

From what I have read you can...its also on the product site...