What about a performance test of the actual routing functions? I had an Airport Extreme and when using it I got 768KB/s, when plugged into the wire or using the wireless port.

However when I pluged into a cablemodem directly with my iBook I'd get 8MB/s.

The performance of the router itself is an important feature to test. Or is this just a 'read the specs and write a review' kind of article?

Thank you for voicing the lack of gigabit ports.

I would love to pick up a couple of these to replace 3 Linksys boxes and support Apple, but the lack of gigabit is a real dealbraker. Gigabit ethernet has been standard on macs for a while and with 5 systems with gigabit ethernet (+ another one in the wings) there is no way you can settle for fast ethernet.
Once you go gigabit, there is just no way back. It is very sad to see Apple's only network box so crippled. Apple should pave the way forward, suppor their own gigabit standard machines. IF cost is such an issue to put gigabit ports in it and sell it at the current price point (which I honestly doubt, gigabit hardware can be found inexpensively nowadays) ... bring out a gigabit edition. Satisfy the family with average hardware with the economo model. Charge $50 more for a gigabit 5 port edition

I also give a big thumbs down to Apple for charging for the wireless driver update. The draft-n drivers should've been pre-installed on the machine to begin with and just updated though auto-update. It's not a huge deal, $2, but since the hardware can do it and people pay a nice price for their macs it should be free. Charging for drivers is not a nice precedent.

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