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Jmac · 06-26-2009, 11:17 AM

It did ... it was also the best looking, too :P

Of course, unless you ONLY have Macs, it's such a pain in the ass for PCs that it's not even worth considering. The biggest flaw is that it doesn't support uPNP (It allows programs to tell the router which ports they need open so they can communicate online), so you have to manually set the ports for each program. Apple uses NAT-PMP, which operates in a slightly different fashion, but very few Windows programs support it and, the only one that I use that does (uTorrent) still didn't work. On top of that, every time you add a new computer or port to the list, it forces you to restart the router, which takes about 2 minutes and it would often loses DHCP settings from the Shaw modem, forcing a reboot of the modem as well (another minute).

Then there's the fact that it's the only router I can think of that doesn't have a web-based configuration utility, so you have to install Apple's bullshit software on your computer. Oh, but not just the MAIN computer, oh no. If you want to, say, share printers or files over the network, you have to install the Bonjour service on the computers hooked up to your network because the router won't let them communicate with each other without it. Then there's Apple Update ... Every time you open the router software, it opens Apple Update and automatically downloads and installs updates ... And not just ones for the router, either (the only ones that are actually CHECKED), but also Quicktime and iTunes and Safari. Yay !

I fucking hate Apple ...

06-26-2009, 11:17 AM	#25
Jmac Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Duncan, BC Posts: 10,128 Thanked 5,568 Times in 2,107 Posts Failed 231 Times in 90 Posts	It did ... it was also the best looking, too :P Of course, unless you ONLY have Macs, it's such a pain in the ass for PCs that it's not even worth considering. The biggest flaw is that it doesn't support uPNP (It allows programs to tell the router which ports they need open so they can communicate online), so you have to manually set the ports for each program. Apple uses NAT-PMP, which operates in a slightly different fashion, but very few Windows programs support it and, the only one that I use that does (uTorrent) still didn't work. On top of that, every time you add a new computer or port to the list, it forces you to restart the router, which takes about 2 minutes and it would often loses DHCP settings from the Shaw modem, forcing a reboot of the modem as well (another minute). Then there's the fact that it's the only router I can think of that doesn't have a web-based configuration utility, so you have to install Apple's bullshit software on your computer. Oh, but not just the MAIN computer, oh no. If you want to, say, share printers or files over the network, you have to install the Bonjour service on the computers hooked up to your network because the router won't let them communicate with each other without it. Then there's Apple Update ... Every time you open the router software, it opens Apple Update and automatically downloads and installs updates ... And not just ones for the router, either (the only ones that are actually CHECKED), but also Quicktime and iTunes and Safari. Yay ! I fucking hate Apple ...