Airport Extreme Finally Gets Gigabit Ethernet

Well it looks like Apple has finally updated their Airport Extreme Base Station to include gigabit Ethernet ports. There was a lot of other news coming out of Apple this week and this one seemed to slip under the radar, but anyone that actually uses the wired network ports of the base station is going to be very happy.

With the majority of new PCs and Macs coming with gigabit Ethernet built in it is nice to know that you can start to actually use that speed with the Airport. Sure there are plenty of other routers out there that offer gigabit speeds, but the Airport also has a print server and a USB port for NAS file storage, not to mention the 802.11n wireless aspect of it.

If we didn't already have one of the UFO looking base stations we would be all over this one.

via engadget

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Posted by David Ficocello at August 8, 2007 9:00 AM