The specified network name is no longer available.Waiting 30 seconds… Retrying… Whenever I tried, the robocopy routine would manage to copy only six files over and then report that the share was no longer available:Ĥ 15:25:27 ERROR 64 (0x00000040) Copying File d:\firefly4\vts_01_1.vob While I was able to connect to a FAT32 formatted drive plugged into the router and even drag-and-drop a small file or two, I once again was not able to run our standard file copy tests. I haven’t had luck in previous tries and didn’t do any better this time, either. I don’t know what the deal is with storage sharing and Windows. the > 1000 Mbps that you would expect from adding the unidirectional results together. But this time, uplink doesn’t stay at the high level, with the result that total throughput suffers and is held to only 579 Mbps vs. You can see the delayed throughput boost characteristic in the simultaneous up/downlink test below. I also am at a loss to explain the 20 second period at the start of the run where the uplink throughput sits down around 250 Mbps. I don’t know what is causing the high downlink variation, since there was no wireless traffic running during the test. The first plot below is a combination of the two unidirectional tests. I’ve started to generate two IxChariot plots for routing, since the one that combines unidirectional WAN > LAN, LAN > WAN and simultaneous up/down gets too muddled. At least Apple didn’t skimp on simultaneous connection handling, since the AExAC hit the test limit at 32,360 sessions. The best AC1750 class routers like the D-Link DIR-868L and ASUS RT-AC66U support routing throughput in the 800+ Mbps range. But when you compare against other Broadcom-powered AC1750 class routers, the results are surprisingly low at only 325 Mbps down and 685 Mbps up. The results show a moderate improvement vs.
The router comes defaulted to the same SSID for both bands, but you can set a different one for 5 GHz. For advanced features, you won’t find anything in the way of parental controls, web filtering or bandwidth management / QoS. The key omissions are the lack of support for 40 MHz bandwidth in the 2.4 GHz band, guest network in 2.4 GHz only, no UPnP support and no WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) support. I didn’t copy over the missing feature list from the Gen 5 review, but it remains the same.
APPLE AIRPORT EXTENDER REVIEW WINDOWS
I used Apple’s AirPort Uility for Windows (version 5.6.1) with a Win 7 SP1 system to configure the AExAC. Taking this approach will let Apple keep its options open to moving the AExAC up to an AC1900 class router like ASUS’ upcoming RT-AC68U. But since it also handles 3×3 802.11n, it’s perfectly suited to use as the 2.4 GHz radio. This 3×3 802.11ac transceiver has been the standard 5 GHz radio in all Broadcom-based AC1750 and AC1600 class routers to date. The AExAC is the first AC1750 router I’ve seen to use two BCM4360s. dual Cortex-A9 CPU 1 GHz, 256 KB L2 cache, Gigabit switch and PHYs and USB 3.0. The specs for the BCM4708 are similar, but a bit less beefy, i.e. So it’s a safe assumption that the 019 has at least that much. The BCM53017 and BCM53018 are described as dual Cortex-A9 CPU up to 1.1 GHz, 512 KB L2 cache (including ECC), 16-bit DDR2 interface, USB3, integrated switch, GPHYs and packet accelerator. But the numbering would indicate that it is a member of Broadcom’s StrataGX communication processor line. There is no specific information on the BCM53019 CPU to be found. Table 1: Router component summary and comparison – Unidentified external power amplifier (x3)
– SiGe (Skyworks) SE2623L 2.4 GHz power amp (x3)
Since the AExAC uses a second-generation Broadcom SoC, I’ve included the only other AC1750 router with a second-gen Broadcom CPU that I’ve tested so far- D-Link’s DIR-868L-for comparison.īroadcom BCM53019 (equivalent of BCM4708) I’ve compiled the key components into the table below.
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