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(Wi-Fi gateways are usually oriented with flat antenna profiles that work well when you’re at the same altitude as they are, such as the same floor of a building, and much less well when you’re above or below, especially when you’re also distant horizontally on the same plane.) The highest achieved speeds were measured as far as 30 feet away with one intervening wall.
For example, we took a MacBook up to 100 feet and 20 vertical feet away from a building containing the Base Station -complete with intervening walls, floors, and concrete partitions -and still maintained a connection with speeds of between 1 and 15 Mbps, with an average of 5 Mbps. The new Base Station provided high-speed coverage over impressive distances-far longer than we have seen with Apple’s 802.11g Base Station and similar 802.11g gateways.
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(Ethernet allows full speeds in each direction wireless bandwidth is pooled among all transmitting devices.) In comparison, two Macs connected to the Base Station via Ethernet can achieve 94 Mbps in each direction. When two 802.11n-enabled Macs communicated with each other wirelessly through the Base Station, rates reached almost 50 Mbps in each direction, but only over 90 Mbps when restricted to a single direction, clearly revealing that the new Base Station’s lack of Gigabit Ethernet constrains the potential top speed of 802.11n.
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With an 802.11n-enabled Mac wirelessly connected to the new AirPort Extreme Base Station, we consistently saw speeds of just over 90 Mbps when sending data to and from another Mac connected to the Base Station via Ethernet. It also sports a three-port 10/100 Mbps Ethernet switch, a useful feature for small, mixed wired/wireless networks found for years in Wi-Fi routers at a fraction of the cost of Apple’s previous Base Stations. The alien spaceship shape is no more the new Extreme looks like a slightly squat Mac mini, making it easier to stack in multiples (although careful channel selection may be needed when doing so to avoid interference). The Base Station’s product name is identical to its predecessor, but the unit itself has a radically different form.
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