Apple Airport Express
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Now with blazing 802.11n, the affordable AirPort Express is powerful enough to run a home Wi-Fi network, yet small enough to take on the road. Share your wireless network with up to 10 users, print documents, photos, and more from any room in the house to one central printer, play iTunes music through your stereo or powered speakers using AirTunes, and more. Product details and pricing info |
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60 Customer Reviews Posted
- Small and Powerful
- This is one of the coolest devices I've seen since Tivo. Easy to configure and it just works.
Coolness Reason 1: I needed internet access in my entertainment center for several devices (like tivo, receiver,...) and I was able to hang a 5 port hub of this thing. This allowed me to have several wired devices all have wireless access each with DHCP from the Airport Extreme (or Time Capsule in this case).
Coolness Reason 2: The music side of this thing is great. I have 3 of these around my house and my mac sees each of them and allows me to choose one or all of them to send tunes to. The main one in my entertainment center doubles as a hub and a music provider to the stereo. Again, no hassle. I just works.
I cannot speak to how this works in a non mac environment, but with my mac and Time Capsule it works flawlessly.
Each can be named something meaningful like Living Room or Family Room or Yoda in this case (small and powerful). - 2008-07-13, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Works fine after a painfully difficult set up.
- It took me a full day to work out the bugs in setting my Express up to work with my Mac Mini and my wife's Mac Powerbook. First it worked on one, but the other could not find it. Then it didn't work at all. There is a lot more involved in setting up your own wireless network and making decisions as to what level of security you want (with no ready explanation of what the pros and cons of the different levels are). Eventually, I had it all set up and would be very happy with the product, in spite of it being a difficult "plug and play," but I discovered it's not fully compatible with any multi-function printers. Might be nice if they let you know up front that ONLY the most basic printing function will work. You will not be able to scan or fax or even get your ink levels. Even some of your printing set-up options will be lost. I spent hours trying to find out why those things weren't working only to find by googling the problem that there is no way to make the many reasons you buy a multi-function printer work. It should say right on the box "DOES NOT SUPPORT MULTI-FUNCTION PRINTING." We kept it to use it for a cable router, but disconnected the printer from it and went to sharing a wire.
- 2008-07-07, 5 of 6 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Replaced an earlier model, works perfectly
- For some reason, my earlier Airport Express stopped working (after... about 6 years I think). Guess even good hardware burns out eventually! The new unit works perfectly, and is SO easy to use! I use it with OSX. Love Apple products!!
- 2008-07-03, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Easy to set up and great performance
- I purchased the Apple Airport Express to add on to an existing wireless network I had set up in my house. The main reason was to play music through the airtunes to my stereo and to print wireless. The set up was quick and the software is easy to install. I installed the software on my MacBook Pro notebook and connected my Canon printer through the Airport. ITunes immediately recognized the Airport and enabled an option to play music through my main stereo and speakers. The sound is excellent ( I have a very high end receiver and large floor speakers) and I look forward to moving my cds to ITunes and only using my laptop and external drive for playing music. It's great to build a playlist and then set it and go. I've had many guests ask how I was able to play such a large amount of music and never change the cd.
If you want to extend your network or start a new one, the Apple Airport Express is a great tool. Utilizing the latest 80211n technology, the Airport is compact, portable and very fast. Great addition to your Apple computer. - 2008-06-21, 3 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Swiss Army Knife Wireless for the Rest of Us
- I am extremely satisfied with this product. It is like a wireless Swiss army knife -- some use it as their main router, others as a router extender, yet others to share connections and printers, and others a combination of these things.
For me, I needed to extend my Airport Extreme Base Station to my Mac Pro without wireless in an inaccessible space. Using Apple's WDS feature, I was able to share my wireless connection to the Mac Pro via the Airport Express's ethernet port.
Worked like a charm... almost zero configuration.
Apple has truly revolutionized easy wireless with their Airport line of products. Highly recommended to everyone. - 2008-06-21, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
