..I could tell you that I'm extremely happy with the Apple Airport product - very fast.. accross my cable modem, hooking up via ethernet I get a raw speed of about 350kbs - accross natt'd airport (using lucent cards) it drops to about 330kbs or so - not a significant drop at all...
There's several different utilities to configure the apple airport via pc's...
I've tested other access points on the market (such as the Linksys one) - significant problems...
-mark
...proud to have owned an Empeg since 00287