Interesting piece by Prince McLean on Apple Insider regarding Apple’s dominance of WiFi market share.

Last week, the analyst told Macworld that the AirPort Extreme lead US retail sales as the top selling router in April

I find this interesting because we’ve been going through some ISP growing pains in our Sac office. We recently switched from an AT&T DSL plan to a plan with a smaller, lesser known company. A few red flags came up with this company when the technicians came in. For one, they were surprised to see we were an all Mac shop. None of them had any experience whatsoever with Macs. Secondly, they seemed to not be able to grasp the idea that the Apple Airport Extreme base station was actually a full-blown network router. Even after showing the technician the configuration screens of the Airport Utility, he still insisted that we get “a real router.”

To appease him, we got the new router and wired it into our network, but promptly removed it once he left. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Airport Extreme base station is a more than capable 802.11n router.

It’s interesting to hear that the Airport Extreme base station is actually the top selling wireless router on the market. Also interesting is that there is actually a fairly successful ISP with no grasp of reality as it pertains to popular consumer hardware in their industry.

We have since closed our account with this company as they were only able to provide us with bandwidth of 1.5 Mbps downstream, and not the 10 Mbps we were paying for. We are now very much enjoying our new 20 Mbps downstream/3 Mbps upstream Comcast cable connection.