[RKDinOKC]

Hmmm, my Airport Extreme (the tower one) I got a couple of years ago works fine with no problems. Apple still sells them, but noticed they are still $199. Had a problem with DNS and IP6 about a year ago, but Apple did a software update that fixed it.

Use one of the older pancake Airport Time Capsules as a wireless extender and it works fine as an extender (stopped using the time capsule because the drive cratered after a couple of years). Network is great even though stuffed away in cabinets and everyone in my neighborhood is running wifi as well. 7 other wifi networks show up and I have an electrical power line wifi barrier on my back property line. Both burried and above ground electrical. Can walk thru my back gate and see a whole different list of wifi networks on that side of the barrier.

Have a business Cable connection and speedtest shows the 50 down and 20 up whether anywhere on my property via wifi or at my wired servers. Waiting as long a possible before upgrading because seems everyone is coming out with so many newer, cheaper Wifi options now.

All I ever do managing my wifi is turn on a guest network when my brother comes to visit, then off after he leaves. It is much easier to turn on a non-passworded guest network than try to keep his laptop connected. He keeps deleting his connection settings and can't seem to remember OR type in a password. His name is Bob and he still asks every time he comes to visit, and several times when here if BobsWifi is what he uses to get internet.

Didn't bother to password my wifi until about 3 years ago. A neighbor got a virus that was trying to send spam thru my wifi.

The founder of the company I work for lives behind me and a major stock holder next door to him, and the President across the street from them. When g was fast wifi we brought in 3 different companies trying to get wifi to cross the electrical power line barrier on my back property line. Even with expensive enterprise wifi routers and directional antenna we couldn't get past the barrier to one of the houses across my back property line. Had those routers for a while and offered to provide free wifi to the neighbors up to 4 houses away (where the signal was still strong) on the my side of the barrier. Surprisingly nobody wanted free internet? Nobody even tried it. Between the hot rod wireless and the business internet connection it was really fast too. They each got their own ISP and their own wifi. Just don't understand some people.