Choice of wireless router

I use an AE with an AEBS and am very satisfied. Very flexible, works without issue with my macs, very easy to configure, supports 5GHz wireless which enables upto 15MBps wireless transfers, guest wireless networks and all forms of port forwarding & trigger. Only negative is there only being a total of 4 ethernet ports, one of which you lose connecting to your broadband modem. (Other routers typically have 4 ports plus an additional WAN/LAN port)

I believe that Airport Express can only wirelessly extend networks from other Apple equipment, but it can act as an extender if you connect it to the main router via cable.

I've no comments on the Netgear routers you mention as I haven't used them

Thx for your advice. Is it possible to dedicate the 5 GHz specifically to my NAS so that file transfers to and from that device will go as quick as possible (streaming for example)?
By the way do you use ur NAS for your iTunes library? I unfortunately cannot of some reason set this up in the right way so that the 3 of us in my house can sync our iOS devices to and from the NAS (from different computers)

And one last question: How does iTunes streaming server work (which I can enable in Frontview) Is it possible in that way to use (stream) the iTunes library from our mobile devices, without having to turn on one of the computers?

larsgorm wrote:
Thx for your advice. Is it possible to dedicate the 5 GHz specifically to my NAS so that file transfers to and from that device will go as quick as possible (streaming for example)?

Only connect to the 5Ghz network from devices that are going to connect to the NAS and only use those devices for transferring files to/from the NAS.

larsgorm wrote:
By the way do you use ur NAS for your iTunes library? I unfortunately cannot of some reason set this up in the right way so that the 3 of us in my house can sync our iOS devices to and from the NAS (from different computers)

I store my iTunes library on my Mac. iTunes is not designed to use network storage. One library per Mac is how it is designed. This is not a limitation of the NAS but rather of the Apple software.

larsgorm wrote:
And one last question: How does iTunes streaming server work (which I can enable in Frontview) Is it possible in that way to use (stream) the iTunes library from our mobile devices, without having to turn on one of the computers?

The iTunes streaming server (Firefly) streams DRM-free (i.e. not copy-protected) music to iTunes on your Mac. Not sure if there is a Firefly client for the iOS devices.

....so I cannot store my whole iTunes library on my NAS and afterwards get access to that library on my different Mac´s and PC´s? (That is actually one of the main reasons for me to buy the Ultra 2 in the first place...)

larsgorm wrote:
....so I cannot store my whole iTunes library on my NAS and afterwards get access to that library on my different Mac´s and PC´s? (That is actually one of the main reasons for me to buy the Ultra 2 in the first place...)

No - iTunes is a single user application just as all the iLife applications are. It does not support multiple iTunes installations accessing the same library stored in a central location (be that on a NAS or elsewhere - this is not a NAS-specific issue). Rather the 'Apple Method' is for each user to have their own library and then share their media with others using features such as Home Sharing. This is for instance how Apple TV accesses media.

If you were careful such that only one of your macs ever had the iTunes library open at a given time, then yes you could do this - but the chances of you making an error and so corrupting the library is very high.

The most common solution is to store the media on the NAS - that consumes the vast majority of space anyway - and then each mac to have its own library locally as it is designed, but accessing the media from the NAS. This does mean of course maintaining multiple libraries separately. There are utilities available that can sync libraries between macs so you may wish to investigate that, but again those are addressing a general limitation of iTunes