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by briandear 3946 days ago
But have you used one? Spec and usability are not the same thing. I have one of the high end Asus routers and several Airport Extremes. I think you know where this is going.. I'm using the AirPort Extreme right now. Dead simple to set up bridges, everything works, no need to do any overclocking to get enough power to penetrate my 17th century stone walls. If the iPhone taught us anything it's that specs matter far less than user experience. Of course there are probably still guys hacking away on Windows XP that would disagree of course.
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I don't have one. But I never said Airport is bad. The point I'm trying to make here is that the "profile" of Airport is not very attractive to non apple fans and experienced user. iphone can draw attention by user experience rather than cpu numbers because people care about their phone. But the importance of router is at a position that usually ignored by average user. Take a car as example, cellphone and laptop are like engines and suspensions which draw every car buyers attention. While router is like tire, and non car guys pursuit 4WD instead of good tire when they need traction.
I've been having a similar experience. I wrote some software (http://docs.happyfuntimes.com) that connects lots of users to a local web server. I've personally used 5 different routers with it and others have used more. The AirPort Extreme is the only one that hasn't had any issues so far.

I'm hoping the OnHub will be good but I need a way to configure it without Internet