The Airport routers have provisions for accessing your mac from the Internet. They also have a lot of IP6 support built-in. I also have the high end ASUS and a Netgear nighthawk. Having both gives me redundancy, and helps me avoid troubles based on too much personality in the firmware. All three routers share the DHCP space. So I have the wifi from the Comcast cable modem, and the apple,netgear,asus routers. This provides enough capability to allow for any special arrangements I need.

After watching the video of this year's Apple Products announcement, I had some sense of excitement about the new models. Then a sense of financial dread overcame me. My last MacBook Pro purchase was so expensive I am still smarting about it. Four cores (8 threads) 16GB-ram and 750GB of SSD with a retina display. Despite a long list of upgrades and benefits, the wifi didn't have 802.11ac. Three hundred dollars for a contemporary high end consumer router, and my best and most recent Apple can't connect in the best mode. Then the lack of an Ethernet port causes me concern. I don't like using a thunderbolt port for Ethernet. This is yet another year I have to come to the disappointing decision that my existing MacBook Pro will have to satisfy my computing needs for several more years. Previously I have justified the expense because of plans to do significant development, but the development climate is slow. Shucks.