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airport extreme

I have a 7 year old airport extreme (ver.7.6.9) and have just upgraded my internet to 400Mbs. Do I need to upgrade/replace the airport extreme and extender?

null-OTHER, macOS High Sierra (10.13.2)

Posted on Dec 16, 2017 12:03 PM

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Posted on Dec 16, 2017 1:21 PM

so should probably check w/cable provider to verify they're sending 400Mbs

The cable company will always say that everything looks good. Connect your Mac directly to the modem using a good CAT5e or CAT6 Ethernet cable to see exactly what is happening. You need to see 300-350+ Mbps, before we can start to troubleshoot the Airport Extreme.


A seven year old AirPort Extreme should still do 275-300+ Mbps if it is operating well when you do recheck the Ethernet ports on the AirPort.


A bad Ethernet connection will still allow an Internet connection, but speeds will be limited to 100 Mbps even though they are actually much higher. Make sure that you have good cabling.

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