The good news is that over the last few years a new wave of so-called mesh network systems, which deploy multiple units throughout your home for can’t-miss coverage, have caught up to Apple in design and far surpassed it in functionality and coverage. Like so many Apple products, they were imperfect and expensive, but they were also reliable, and they did about as much as most people needed them to. Time Capsule, especially, provided one-stop, no-muss backup for people who didn’t want to fiddle with external hard drives.
Apple’s routers may not have had as many features or as much horsepower their peers, but you didn’t have to think twice about them and they looked nice, at a time when most other options caused near-constant hassles and mostly resembled alien robot spiders. Rather than mourn the end of an era, take the chance to give your home Wi-Fi a boost with one of these newer, better alternatives.Įven if the official end of the Airport era was a long time coming, it's still a shame. That’s so many iPhones ago! This week, the company made it official: It will no longer churn out Airport Express, Extreme, or Time Capsule routers. Close observers of Apple’s networking products-surely they exist-know that the company hasn’t updated its Airport line of Wi-Fi routers since 2013.
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