My local Walmart has Apple AirPort Time Capsule 2TB 802.11ac for $200

[Ichinisan]

That's $100 less than MSRP, but I already have an 802.11ac AirPort Extreme 6th gen.

/FWP

 

[boomhower]

I'd still skip it. Their routers lag behind the competition and don't offer some feature that I need that pretty much every router offers. They are to gimped for simplicity. I'm an Apple fanboy but hate their routers. Good deal though.

 

[Eug]

While I like the simplicity, what's sad is some of the gimping is because of the software. The latest versions of Airport Utility are gimped more than the previous versions, even though for the appropriate hardware, the earlier versions worked fine.

 

[Ichinisan]

Yeah. The AirPort utility has some major deficiencies for me, but not having any QoS features to limit upload speed really kills me. The Internet connection is 100% unusable for all devices every time one of my devices saturates my upload capacity (YouTube upload, large file placed in Dropbox, iCloud backup, etc).

The time capsule functionality is good if you have a Mac. You can still use it in as an access point (AP) in "bridged" mode behind another router.

Now, I have my 802.11ac AirPort Extreme configured in bridge mode and installed behind an Arris media gateway (MG5000) multi-room DVR system. I turned-off WiFi in the gateway, but it absolutely must do NAT so the smaller "media player" boxes with the TVs can use home networking protocols to talk to the gateway (can't do bridge mode and let my own router have a public IP). Unfortunately, there's no way to configure QoS in the Arris gateway either! My only solution would be double-NAT

Gateway (NAT) --> router with QoS (NAT) --> AirPort Extreme 802.11ac (bridged)

..that would complicate using the Arris WHS mobile app to communicate with the gateway. A device running the mobile app definitely has to be on the same LAN with the gateway for the initial pairing process.

 

[Rakehellion]

That's $100 less than MSRP, but I already have an 802.11ac AirPort Extreme 6th gen.

/FWP

Clearance because a new model is coming out soon?

 

[Rakehellion]

I'd still skip it. Their routers lag behind the competition and don't offer some feature that I need that pretty much every router offers. They are to gimped for simplicity. I'm an Apple fanboy but hate their routers. Good deal though.

Meh, I like mine. Can't really get an a gigabit router + ac + hard drive for that price.

 

[Ichinisan]

Clearance because a new model is coming out soon?

That thought crossed my mind too. Probably revised to support this new "MU-MIMO" thing.

[edit]
Maybe a version that has built-in HomeKit features (and I also expect this from the refreshed Apple TV).