{"id":257925,"date":"2018-04-27T10:27:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T08:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=257925"},"modified":"2018-04-27T10:30:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T08:30:25","slug":"apple-killing-airport-wireless-routers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/257925-apple-killing-airport-wireless-routers.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple killing AirPort wireless routers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has confirmed it will stop making its AirPort wireless router range, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2018\/04\/26\/apple-airport-cancellation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9to5Mac reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Remaining stock will be sold through retailers, after which the\u00a0AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and models of AirPort Time Capsule will no longer be available.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Apple has not dropped the price of the routers.<\/p>\n<p>It continues to sell the\u00a0AirPort Express for $99, AirPort Extreme for $199, 2TB AirPort Time Capsule for $299, and the 3TB AirPort Time Capsule for $399.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT201624\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple&#8217;s policy on obsolete products<\/a><\/strong> states that you will be able to get parts from Apple service providers for five years after the product is no longer manufactured.<\/p>\n<p>The company has also published a support page on its website offering <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT208753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tips on choosing a Wi-Fi router<\/a><\/strong> to use with Apple devices.<\/p>\n<p>Apple recommends:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for IEEE 802.11ac.<\/li>\n<li>Simultaneous dual-band (2.4GHz and 5GHz).<\/li>\n<li>WPA2 Personal (AES) encryption.<\/li>\n<li>MIMO or MU-MIMO.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/257045-apple-is-not-combining-macos-and-ios.html\">Apple is not combining MacOS and iOS<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple will stop making its AirPort wireless router range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":257937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[605,45310],"class_list":["post-257925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-apple","tag-wi-fi-router"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257935,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257925\/revisions\/257935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}