While it’s technically the “watered down” version of its bigger brother, the AirPort Express has the exclusive functionality in the AirPort family of products that allows a set of speakers or an audio receiver to plug into it so music can be AirPlayed at the touch of a button. If you’re not addicted to all-out performance and just need an efficient solution to setting up a wireless network at your home, the AirPort Express is probably a better fit for you.
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Its one USB 2.0 connection is painfully slow, so you’re better off hooking up a gigabit NAS device to a free LAN port if you need storage that can achieve higher transfer speeds.Apple has a history of removing features, which gives me concern about the future viability of the AirPort Extreme in an enterprise environment they should only ever be adding functionality, not taking it away.Built-in Time Machine back ups take place wirelessly, so no matter what, your precious data is covered.It has excellent reliability, as I've only experienced 1 failure in 10 years across 20+ devices.It supports 802.11 b/g/a/n/ac and uses the 2.4GHz and 5GHz spectrum with a six-element beamforming antenna array, letting you create two separate wireless networks to isolate slower legacy devices from high performance devices (which means all devices can achieve their top speeds).
If you want an easy-to-setup, high-performance wireless router with built in backup capabilities, you can't go wrong with the AirPort Time Capsule. The AirPort Time Capsule is wicked fast and makes the most out of my Fios connection, while its six-element beamforming antenna array blows through multiple walls to ensure my devices have a stable connection. (It's twin brother, the AirPort Extreme, is identical in every way, but it lacks internal hard disk drives, so if you want to use Time Machine over your local network, you'll have to hook up an external hard disk drive to it's USB2.0 port). The AirPort Time Capsule is Apple's flagship wireless router, complete with built-in hard disk drives, enabling Time Machine support right out of the box. While Apple doesn't have a reputation for being a leader in networking devices, most likely because they're busy leading in 3-4 other product categories, but I'm a strong supporter of these products, and in the often unreliable world of networking, finding stuff that doesn't suck is worth writing about. I've been using Apple's line of AirPort networking products since 2008 and have purchased and installed more than 20 AirPort devices in that time.
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