AirPort Extreme & Windows 8.0 compatability?

My Netgear wireless router just died and am researching an alternative for our household which includes 2 newer work related Dell laptops running Windows 8.0 and my 2 year old MacBook Pro and IPad 2. It seems most ever wireless router offered, whether an inexpensive throw away to high end ac products all have about 1/4 a1/3 of the reviews insisting they are garbage that doesn't even reliably stay connected to the internet let alone walk on water as claimed.
Reviews of AirportExtreme claim reliable connection and ease of installation, both important. Forums, albeit several years old, claimed that the router shipped with channel 13 as default setting and that connecting to Windows clients was very difficult and many would not stay connected or had to be reset every time the windows machines hibernated or were shutdown. Are there persisting compatibility issues with Dells running Windows 8.0 or have they been addressed? Does one still need to change the channel to other than 13 to have it work stateside? Thanks for your help.

Hello borzo. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
I suspect the problem is that you have two active DHCP servers operating on your local network. One being the Win2K8 Server and the other is the AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn). By default, the AEBSn's DHCP server service will be enabled. The only way to disable it would be to reconfigure it as a bridge, i.e., Connection Sharing = Off (Bridge Mode).

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