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Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers by Aaargh20318 on Monday November 21, 2016 @10:40AM (#13006158)
> The irony is the Airport Extreme performs better than the equivalent Ubi AP.

Consumer-grade routers usually are faster. What they are not is more reliable, or easy to use/manage.

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Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers by Bud on Monday November 21, 2016 @11:42AM (#13006728)
My Airport Extreme goes YEARS without me touching it. It took me a couple minutes to set up. I very much doubt that Ubi's ease of management or use is superior. Equal? Maybe. Superior? Nah.
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Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers by jeremy7600 on Monday November 21, 2016 @01:52PM (#13008009)
Have you ever set one up? They are insanely easy to manage and use. Superior? Likely. Ubiquity has amazing software. I set up 2 edge routers recently, they never need to be restarted. Also, the newer firmware has really good setup wizards for the basics. Almost impossible to screw up.
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Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers by pyre on Monday November 21, 2016 @06:46PM (#13010369)
I've had significant issues with both Uniquity and Apple APs, so I wouldn't necessarily say that one is that much better than the other.
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