Bestbuy.com Apple - Refurbished AirPort Extreme Wireless Base Station 5th Gen $89.99 Model RF-MD031LL/A

Quote from sandytribe : Boycott Best Buy

Hang yourself.

I bought 5 of these during Thanksgiving sale from BB. They were all in white boxes and 5th generation. I sold tthree to friends and have the other two extending my home network from a time capsule I had purchased earlier. They all work perfectly and stable (never need reboots like my old netgear and linksys). The extremes hand off the wireless access seamlessly as you move through the house so you have excellent signal from anywhere. I have them wired with GB lan between the routers and then the wireless access points serve the clients depending on which part of home you are in. I highly recommend these units. The ones I received looked brand new and worked perfect.

Quote from uslam : This thing was posted at midnight and has a -1... http://slickdeals.net/f/5826522-S...ay-Disc-30 re-posted 8 hrs later and has a +18 hehe

Maybe because it not in the title on the post that you linked? It's buried amongst five or six other Best Buy deals in the post.

Quote from thenewdeal : a) Oh I assumed amex would add. b) thanks for the reply c) checked out squaretrade and it looks like it would be around $15 for a warranty - not sure if this will work with refurb, might have to contact them.

Yeah Amex is a little stingy with the extended warranty options. Might want to look into SquareTrade though, I've heard good things about them.

Thanks for taking time in explaining.
appreciate your effort to the community..

will it work on Sonic Fusion, in the bay area, ca? TIA.. looking for a new router

Quote from sdlife : Maybe because it not in the title on the post that you linked? It's buried amongst five or six other Best Buy deals in the post.

still funny when its in the title it gets +18 while 1400 views on the other gets a -1.... it's not buried so far you couldn't read it in less than 10 seconds... or maybe its just that it needed a salesman.... idk

I have the previous model Airport Extreme that I got from cowboom (bestbuy deal site) as a refurb and am very happy!
I am getting this one as well since I have a long stretched out house, and Airport Extremes have an easy feature to become a repeater. Going to use this one as the main router, and change the old one into the repeater.
I've homebrewed a linksys wrt54g into becoming a repeater however it was a horrible idea. Thx for the deal

Quote from ph7 : Having bought Apple refurbs from Best Buy, I wouldn't call them reputable. I've bought two Apple Airport Express refurbs from them and both were configured with the previous user's settings - Best Buy didn't even bother to reset the units, much less refurb them. Once I cleared the settings, one worked fine,and the other is unstable, dropping connections all the time - probably the reason it was returned to BB.

Oh so I thought a 'refurb' always meant that it came from the manufacture so really Best Buy would just be the reseller. How is Best Buy qualified to do a refurb? Do they just have one of the Geek Squads plug it in and see if the light it lit??

If thats the case then yes, I would be more skeptical buying something like this from anyone but Apple.

I have concerns about the USB drive sharing abilities:

1) This can't take any NTFS formatted drives ?? That's a pretty key limitation for me. Any way to get this to serve NTFS drives?

2) Does this have a 2TB limitation? I'd like to use 3TB USB drive.

Best router I've owned, but these aren't refurbished by Apple... So, they've probably been returned to a BestBuy, shipped to some third party, where someone plugged it in, saw a green light, and now you're buying it.

Quote from nik929 : I bought the 4th gen of this awhile ago, so far no issues. Does everyone just leave it on and running all the time? I didn't really care with my cheaper router that was more or less disposable but I don't want to burn this thing out...

you don't burn things out from leaving them on. you actually kill your electronics faster by turning them off and on. the heat expansion and cooling contraction is a killer on circuit boards.

Quote from aajeev : Can you not take it back to bestbuy store and ask them to ship you a new one? It always takes forever to ship something out...

you can take it back to the store and get your money back. they won't reorder it for you. and if the price is higher when you re-order.. well tough !@##

it looks like this 5th gen came out almost 2 years ago. is this sale likely due to a new model about to be released?

Quote from fauxreals : it looks like this 5th gen came out almost 2 years ago. is this sale likely due to a new model about to be released?

Well you might see a new model this year since there is a new wifi (draft) standard. But still a good deal.