Airport...EXTREME!!

Something lit a fire under my ISP's ass and they're being a pain in mine. I don't know if my account if flagged or something but they seem to have it out for me. For instance, on Monday I received an e-mail saying they were faxing the new service agreement to my apparment's front office and asking me to please sign it and fax it back as soon as possible.

Then on Friday I get another e-mail saying if I hadn't sent it back before 4:00pm that day my Internet would be turned off and it'd take $45 to get it back on. wtf is that? So I had to run around and call them four of five times to get it faxed to my work and confirm they got it. Their customer service sucks. I swear, its like three people in a dank basement office. Pangeatech, I loathe thee.

One of the things I had to do to get my service back was to shutdown my server. I had a FreeBSD server acting as a router. I wasn't even hosting any websites anymore. It wasn't doing anything a network device wouldn't be doing. But it had to come down. Okay fine.

'Cept my then current router is like 6 years old and hadn't had a firmware update put out for it since 2002. Also, I'm pretty sure it shocks you when you try to unplug it. And if the power goes it, it freaks out.

So I do a little research and a little asking around (read: asking iJon) and decided to get an Apple Airport. But which one? The tiny and awesome Airport Express or the full sized and powerful Airport Extreme? Well, since I needed the routing portion along with the wireless, I went with the Extreme. Everytime I say that I hear those guys from Harold and Kumar in my head, "EXTREEEEEEEME!"

This thing is slick. The setup utility that's built into Max OS X makes it really easy to get it running. I didn't bother with the setup assistant, so I don't know how it is. I'm too l33t for assistants. I'm so l33t, I even read through the whole manual, haha.

Besides having multiple nice security features (not including WEP, although it does have it) it shares USB printers and is very customizable. It even comes with a wall mounting bracket, which I used in a fun way:





If somehow the bracket falls off the wall I'm pretty sure the network cables will keep it from hitting the floor, heh.

I'm loving this thing, its very, very nice. I hightly recommend one, even if you don't have any Macs. They CD does have the management software for Windows.

Well, I'm off to have my lazy sunday. Have a good one!

- BuddhaDave