Which Wi-Fi base station are you?

Airport Express

Airport Extreme

Time Capsule

Recommended uses

  • Play music wirelessly.
  • Share a printer wirelessly.
  • Take it on the road.
  • Apartment, smaller home or dorm.
  • Share an external hard drive and printer.
  • Create a large, high-speed network.
  • Router with four Gigabit Ethernet ports.
  • Larger home, office or classroom.
  • Back up wirelessly with Mac OS X Leopard.
  • Expand or create a high-speed network.
  • Print wirelessly.
  • Any home, office or classroom.

Wireless networking that works with most Wi-Fi enabled devices, including Mac, PC, iPhone, iPod touch and more

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Wi-Fi specification

802.11n
Dual-band
(2.4GHz or 5GHz)

802.11n
Simultaneous dual-band
(2.4GHz and 5GHz)

802.11n
Simultaneous dual-band
(2.4GHz and 5GHz)

Ethernet ports

One 10/100BASE-T

Four Gigabit

Four Gigabit

USB port

For printers only

For printers and external hard drive

For printers and external hard drive

Number of users

10

50

50

Guest networking

-

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AirTunes

Stream iTunes to external speakers

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Built-in wireless storage with automated Mac OS X Time Machine backup

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1TB or 2TB

Price (RRP inc GST)

$179

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$279

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$429 (1TB), $729 (2TB)

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