OK, I've finally gotten completely sick of having to physically restart my Linksys WPA54G (thanks for not including a restart button in the web interface, morons!), so I'm thinking about buying a new router.
I'm mainly looking at the Airport Extreme; we have one at work, it seems to hold up pretty well (had to restart it maybe once or twice in the last year). My hesitations:
- One less ethernet port than my current one (although I'm not sure if I actually use 4 ports or not)
- It doesn't have a web interface (not really a big deal)
- It doesn't have a bunch of twiddly things I could change (although I don't do that currently with my home network)
- It's kind of expensive, although I could add a USB hard drive to use as a NAS, which is appealing.
- I've heard iffy things about the NAS functionality, though.
Anyone have experience with these beasties (current model, pref) or other recommendations?
My network consists of a PowerMac G4, a homebuilt Core i7 gaming machine, a Macbook, a Macbook Pro, a TiVo, and Roku box. I don't do a lot of file transfer over the network, so it's mainly for internet access.
