AirPort Extreme Base Station gets Gigabit Ethernet support

[antony]

Apple Extreme Base Station gets a minor update as well. Gigabit Ethernet (1000Mbit/s) is now supported in one WAN port and three LAN ports. Apple first announced the 802.11n support in AirPort Extreme Base Station (with only Fast Ethernet support, 100Mbit/s) during MWSF07 in January 2007.

More detail at AirPort Extreme Base Station.

[FLASH1296]

I love my (original) Airport Extreme.
In a pragmatic everyday sense, what is the significance of this hardware change?

[antony]

The part numbers for AirPort Extreme Base Stations:

January 2007 model (with Fast Ethernet): MA073X/A (now superseded)
August 2007 model (with Gigabit Ethernet): MA053X/A

QUOTE(FLASH1296 @ Aug 8 2007, 10:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

In a pragmatic everyday sense, what is the significance of this hardware change?

Between the January 2007 release and the August 2007 release, ethernet speed. If you use AirPort Extreme Base Station as your router and have computers that support Gigabit Ethernet, you will see significant speed improvement when file transferring, as well as running other transfer intensive tasks such as Remote Desktop.

[Parker]

I've gotta get one of these
being that both of my dells have gigabit ethernet
and my new macbook now has 802.11n...

but i'd hate to take my old extreme out of service :-(