Customer Reviews and Ratings

This is a great product and I would be ecstatic about it except for the fact that we cannot print from our iPads or iPhones without a new printer. Our old wireless rotor blew up and we jumped at the idea of wireless printing from all our Apple devices that we own (now 6 total). There needs to be a fix for this issue. No need for us to go buy another printer for $100+ when we just bought a $100 wireless rotor. There has to be a way to make this work. PLEASE HELP! 5 stars if this works some how!

11 of 25 people found this useful

It only works with Apple's routers, which is very inconvenient.
I couldn't be less pleased.

18 of 32 people found this useful

It works great, easy to install, easy to use, it's only thing I would change is, to be able to control more the one at de time with the iPhone or iPad. I have 2 and apple tv also and if I'm listen music I have to choose only one place of the house to play it, hopefully in the future they change it

2 of 2 people found this useful

To the point. I'm on my 4th Airport Express. Apple is notorious for testing its products on the customer before making any improvements. This item is a flaccid failure for quality. It will work wonderfully (any product on earth should work, so no big compliment there) and then, one day very soon, it will disconnect. Then work, then disconnect. Then work, then disconnect. Answer from every technician at Apple, whether over the phone or in-person is as follows: "You'll need to buy a new one." Remember when products built in the U.S. would last you almost forever? Well, this is a "Quality Product's Illegitimate, Inbred Cousin." Expect to go through many of these in your lifetime. I feel like cattle.

13 of 16 people found this useful

Works great for two devises any more and it will only last a couple of weeks before a "connection time out" occurs. When this happens you have to in plug the devise and then plug it back in which can become a hasle after a while, especially if you are in the Internet with a different devise.

11 of 13 people found this useful

Mine's toast after 3 years. My other base station lasted over 10, until it became obsolete and wouldn't work with newer computers. I won't buy another Express and will spend the extra $60 for the Extreme.

3 of 3 people found this useful

After two years, it'll die... However, I've had my Linksys wireless router for over 5 years and it still works. Don't buy it if you need a router.

29 of 89 people found this useful

Constantly loses signal, so it has to be unplugged then plugged back in. Even tried changing the channel to one that's not being used by other wireless networks, but still have to unplug, then plug back in every few days.

Don't buy it! It looks cool and is nice and compact, but that's about it!

I hate it.

12 of 24 people found this useful

don't waste your money on this, for the price of this product, spend it at Cradlepoint or Linksys, this device is incredibly limiting and you have very little control of the actual router in this device. It's basically only used to connect to a modem and give a wireless network, which other manufacturers do better jobs at cheaper prices, just without the Apple logo. I bought this as I was in a crunch where I needed a router that would serve DHCP over Wired ports and this was the only router offered at the only electronics store in the small town I was in that day, you'd think you can change the mode of the wired port from Modem to network, but you can't. Since I have other smaller travel routers at home that do a better job than this one, I now have a $100 white brick paper weight. Don't waste your money, get a cradlepoint for $65, and you can use the USB for your USB internet card while traveling.

12 of 48 people found this useful

The main reason why I needed airport was for my ipad and wireless printers, and it works great for that. Websurfing works fine also. Playing an online game such as unreal tournament is impossible though. Every five minutes the screen freezes and my computer needs to be restarted via the power button. I've read that this is due to "dropouts" in the connection and that I could try installing an older firmware on my fall 2007 imac, which is running 10.6.8. Wish it had another ethernet port, or some way that I can hardwire just the ethernet to my computer, don't know if the Airport Extreme can do that, or if an ethernet switch would work this way. Tried unplugging the cable from the airport and going directly to the computer just for the game, lost my connection for two hours - won't try that again.

1 of 2 people found this useful