Moved from One Dog Poop into Another…
I returned the Linksys router due to 102.11n issues with the MBP and bought an Airport Extreme Base Station as a replacement.
I’m not sure if I’m happy with this router, either.
Connection is rather easy compared to Linksys router. That’s not saying much because connecting the Linksys isn’t that difficult as long as you’re not using their stupid “helper application.”
First of all, the Airport Utility needs to be replaced (preferrably with something http-based…you know, just like any other freakin’ router in the market!). One would think that this utility was outsourced to Microsoft or something. It’s counter-intuitive: Reserving DHCP addresses is a pain (it’s automatic with the Linksys), you have to dig through a lot of crap before you can list the devices attached to the router.
The thing that annoys me the most is that NAT-PMP is broken. NAT-PMP is a awesome for passive FTP’ing and bittorrent since you don’t need to monkey around with port forwarding and all that crap. I thought it was just me, but after googling a bit, a number of Apple forum threads confirmed my suspicion: the latest firmware (7.2.1) breaks NAT-PMP. A few were so frustrated that they downgraded their firmware.
I’m probably going to keep this one anyway.
Update 03/20/2008: Looks like the new 7.3.1 firmware version has corrected this issue. Yes!
Popularity: 16% [?]
