Thinking of getting an Airport Extreme... Thoughts or Comments?

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Ok so I'm thinking of getting an Airport extreme but I had a couple questions about the capabilities of it. My main concern is that I want to be able to see what hosts are connect to my wired and wireless network and also see the bandwidth being used by each host... I'd also like to be able to limit bandwidth of certain hosts so say I'd like for Host_X not to exceed 200k/sec etc... Are these things possible with an Airport extreme and if not, is there another router that you would suggest for this? Also the ability to block hosts etc... is a must... Any thoughts or personal experience?

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Ok so I'm thinking of getting an Airport extreme but I had a couple questions about the capabilities of it. My main concern is that I want to be able to see what hosts are connect to my wired and wireless network and also see the bandwidth being used by each host... I'd also like to be able to limit bandwidth of certain hosts so say I'd like for Host_X not to exceed 200k/sec etc... Are these things possible with an Airport extreme and if not, is there another router that you would suggest for this? Also the ability to block hosts etc... is a must... Any thoughts or personal experience?

I don't get that level of functionality out of my Airport Extreme N, but I like it since it has USB connectivity for sharing a Hard Drive so I can do wireless Time Machine backups for both my 15" MBP and my 20" iMac.

As far as routers/gateway/firewall, what you probably want is something like a Linksys WRT54G with a custom firmware like DD-WRT (http://www.dd-wrt.com/). I have run this on the Linksys hardware in the past with success (nice QoS features, and connection tracking/monitoring). If you are looking at getting a WRT54G, be sure to get a v4, the v5-v6 (and newer) all came with VxWorks instead of Linux, as well as only 8MB of RAM, instead of 16MB.

Another solution you could check out is m0n0wall (http://m0n0.ch) which is based on FreeBSD and can be installed on a wide variety of Intel x86 hardware or in VMware.

Hope this helps,

breed

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