My daughter has a LinkSys router she's very happy with, but then again she's also very knowledgeable. When I bought my iBook I bought an ABS at the same time, and when I got AppleCare it automatically covered the Base Station as well, both for telephone tech support, which I had to use quite often and then, when it burned out after a year and a half, they replaced it free. There was a good article in MacWorld about a year or so ago comparing wireless routers and you can probably find it in their archives or through a Google search. My recollection was they concluded that if you were pretty tech savvy you could save the money and go with several of the ones they thought worked well, but if you wanted simplicity and good tech support you should stick with the higher priced Apple router. Brian On 12/30/03 9:14 PM, "david" <davidwb at spymac.com> wrote: > Am I stuck with shelling out the ridiculous price they are charging for an >> Airport Base station?