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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

GREAT! But...

Written by RT from Los Gatos

8/12/2009

This product sometimes cuts out but normally corrects it self. I highly recommend this product. I have a few of them throughout my house connected to the different stereos. Works great should defiantly get it.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Well yes and no.......

Written by JA from Steamboat Springs

8/12/2009

This does a great job of extending my already existing wireless network in my apartment. I really enjoy being able to attach it to my Bose and use my iPhone remote to DJ parties and gatherings but I was surprised that you can not have the sound from a movie, video podcast, or TV Show play on your selected speakers when they are plugged into the AirPort Express. You have to plug those speakers in to the computer!!! It leaves me looking for more.....

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Great For Dorm Life!!

Written by PF from Evansville

6/12/2009

Took it out of the box and set it up in less than 20mins. (Better than any linsys or cisco router I have ever set-up) I live in a dorm room...and I must say that it is perfect for dorm life. The 802.11n feature is awesome because I have a new macbook pro, and I am pretty much the only one that can connect to it and with the 802.11n/a I can get transfer rates up to 30MB/s over the wireless instead of using my schools wireless which is 300KB/s. Which is freaking amazing. Just all-around a good product so far. I never have to mess with it, and I never have to fix it. It simply just works, which is exactly what I was looking for.

AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

great

Written by DS from Pittsburgh

6/12/2009

this item is the best router ever!!

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Airport Express -Wireless without distress!

Written by JH from Colorado Springs

6/12/2009

Im fairly new to the "orchard", but after YEARS of pain and frustration with a "budget router" by Zyair and throw in a PC....get the picture? Thus far my network has the strongest signal all over my house, IMac and MacBook Pro flawlessly sync over MobileMe and (GASP) my company- issued IBM Craptop actually functions better for working via the VPN. 5 minutes from box to full functionality. The ability to secure my wireless connection (Zyair didnt or I couldnt figure it out) was also easy. Really no desire to stream wireless music.....I just plug my Macbook Pro in to a port on my home audio......Who knows maybe sometime? The small footprint is also nice. The real added bonus is it made my HP all-in-one fax-printer-scanner fully functional wirelessly. I couldnt scan PERIOD before with wireless connection.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Great in theory, poor execution

Written by AL from Portland

5/12/2009

The idea behind this lil' gadget is great. I got an Airport Express purely as a way to stream iTunes music across my living room from a Sony laptop to our stereo, and didn't really need any other features. Despite having all the latest downloads and updates, and replacing the unit, it never worked for more than 2 minutes without stuttering, intermittently losing connection, and then out-right failing, never again to be recognized without hard rebooting the Airport. BTW, this is NOT a Windows issue, as many a Macbook user has the same issues.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

one of the worst apple prodcuts!

Written by SM from LONDON

4/12/2009

My 3rd Airport Express broke in one month.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Outshines Other Routers

Written by RG from HAMMOND

4/12/2009

I upgraded to the Express Base Station from a Linksys Wireless-N router and have been impressed since! The Express is much faster, reliable, and set up was a snap. It literally took about 7 minutes from start to finish. I can't say that about the Linksys. It has been connected for several days and I have yet to have a dropped Internet connection. However, I recommend using the Express only if you have a Mac as both the hardware and software are meant to complement one another.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Perfect

Written by EW from Tonopah

2/12/2009

The title of my review tells it all. I used the AirPort Express to extend my home network via a 1TB-Time Capsule. Coverage in my home is excellent in all areas. Set-up was simple. Money very well spent. Good job Apple.

17 of 18 people found this useful

AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

failed after 10 months -hassle to deal with

Written by RB from Vero Beach

1/12/2009

Was nice when it worked but every couple months I would have to go through Airport Utility setup to get it to play my music from itunes on remote speakers. Very un-Apple like instability issues. Finally stopped working for good today and I spent a couple hours trying every fix I could find on various forums. Should be covered under warranty but can't reach a human at Apple. Will be easier to just plug my ipod into the powered speakers (by the way, must use powered speakers with airport express) that used to plug into the airport express.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

works most of the time

Written by WS from COLORADO SPRINGS

1/12/2009

I bought three of these and connected to my old air port extreme it worked most of the time but then started stopping in the middle of streaming music from my Mac which is the main reason I bought it. So i bought a new airport extreme thinking that the range was an issue. improved my speed on the Mac but did not fix the streaming problem to the the airport expresses. it is an intermitant problem that Apple should really look into. so far i have seen nothing on line to reflect that they have. I have the latest firm ware downloads and though the system is great when it works it is still annoying when it cuts out for no good reason. I have one hooked up to my home theater system 40feet away from the Airport extreme. one connected to my upstairs system and one in the kitchen next to the Mac simply acting as a range extender. super about 90% of the time

11 of 14 people found this useful

AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Excellent while it worked

Written by MI from New Haven

30/11/2009

This is a great product while it lasted. Ideal for travel, home wireless networking. Music streaming to speakers and WiFi was flawless. However, it simply died after about 2.5 years, after warranty had expired of course. Only two stars, since one would expect something with this price tag to work bit longer. I miss having AirPort Express...

18 of 23 people found this useful

AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Bad reviews are true! DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!

Written by OO from Evergem

30/11/2009

I decided to buy this product after reading some bad reviews (huge mistake) because I though they were not representing the real quality of the brand. However, it is true that this is not a good product. I bought it to combine it with my time capsule for the only purpose of streaming music wirelessly. Unfortunately for me, this product is a joke since music constantly cut off for no reasons. No matter how close or far the airport express is from the source of your wireless internet, the music suddenly interrupts. And it is also unbelievable that every time I start the microwave in the kitchen the music starts to cut off as well. This product is simply a joke with this problem being well documented by several other reviewers. Please note that I have not use the airport express to create a wireless network or to setup a printer, I only used it for the wireless music capability. I bought this product 3 weeks ago and it is back at the customer service department from where I bought it since I live in Europe and you cannot just return the product and get a refund as it happens in the US. Stay away, save a bit more money and get yourself a descent wireless music bridge system from other brands that have excellent reviews (i.e. logitech, etc).

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Rarely Works

Written by DA from Henderson

29/11/2009

One of the things I love about Apple is that their products just work, but not in this case. Bought this to add speakers to my computer. Works every once in a great while. I even moved it right next to my Apple Airport Wireless Router but it can't ever locate it. (everything else wireless around my house works fine, so it's not the wireless connection) Even attempted to reinstall, but it only comes back with "unable to locate wireless device". Big waste of money.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

great for my steaming music

Written by LS from Williamsville

29/11/2009

I was able to eliminate my 5 CD changer and now exclusively play all music through the Airport express from iTunes... My only complaint is occasionally I get a temporary interruption of music. but only for a few seconds and it is very sporadic. My Express is one of the earliest versions maybe 3 years old(?). I am now working on playing my Sirius Radio through this system.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Music from my Mac to my HiFi

Written by MH from solihull

28/11/2009

I think this cost me £70 and for that I am able to play all of my music on my HiFi system. I have heard stories about setting up but for me it was intuitive and fairly easy. I plugged it in and attached it to the network and plugged into amplifier and hey presto - within about 10 Minutes I was streaming music. I have saved so much storage space with puttting away CD's and can now mix and create playlists. All in all I listen to much more music than i did before because its so much easier and thats what its about isnt it? listening to the music. had no problems with delay and would thoroughly recommend. Only thing i want to do now is work out if i can sore music on external HD and still play.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Amazing!

Written by AM from Enniskillen

26/11/2009

When I initially bought this I had some problems getting it to work with my BT Homehub 2.0. Then I found this help page: [search discussions. apple . com for thread 8702354] - Sorry can't publish URLs. I have since had nothing but the sweet tunes coming from my Bose Speaker Dock - it works seamlessly now, no interruptions to the stream.

Really handy if you want to move your tunes around for a house party - use it with the Remote App on an Ipod Touch/ IPhone and you're set!

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

It works.

Written by KG from BARNSLEY

26/11/2009

I bought the Airport Express (AX) along with an Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS). Plugged in set and working in around thirty minutes. I get occasional drop outs on the AX but I use it for hours each day for music without any hassle at all. The manual cautions against using either unit close to other cable runs and cordless phones. In this day and age this amounts to being asked to drive a car but avoid tarmac. Each individual set up will vary so much that one star reviews saying AX doesn't work should be viewed with caution. I live in a fairly regular house with the usual amount of cables, phones and external interference (eight other networks show on Airport next to mine) and would buy the two units again without hesitation. BTW, the music sounds way better via AX than it ever did plugged in directly by cable from iPod to the same hifi.

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