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Re-Networking With AirPort: How & Why This Underrated Apple Tech Surprised Me in 2025
I replaced my home network with Apple’s discontinued lineup of AirPort Routers. The features, performance & results shocked me 😱
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If you asked me at the beginning of this year, what Apple product is on your wishlist for 2025, I would have never mentioned a discontinued product from the last decade. But as weird as 2025 gets, I didn’t question myself much when I finally secured and set up an Apple AirPort Time Capsule (from 2013) as my primary WiFi router at home, replacing the current TP-Link one.
Wait, what.. Apple made routers?
Yes. The AirPort was Apple’s lineup of wireless routers and technology service that was launched in 1999 along with the first iBook (penultimate to the MacBook). It was Apple’s attempt at making a first-of-its-kind wireless router, which Steve Jobs demoed on stage by passing the iBook (connected to WiFi) through a Hula Loop to demonstrate that there were no wires — a classic Jobs presentation.
The AirPort lineup was updated over the next decade to support the latest WiFi protocols and features. However, in 2013, Apple introduced its last Apple AirPort…
