AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes
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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes
Pretty good but could do so much more...
Written by RP from South Woodford
03-Nov-2009
This is a very handy piece of kit for doing a few basic tasks. I use it on my existing network to allow me to play itunes music through my hifi. Combined with the free Iphone Remote app, its pretty good at what it does and amazingly easy to set up.
I have one gripe though... why doesn't it support the addition of a wired (USB or otherwise) hard drive? I refuse to spend £300 on a time capsule - its a rip off. Perhaps this is the reason or am I just being cynical?7 of 9 people found this useful
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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes
Airport Express - brilliant
Written by AW from Sutton Coldfield
01-Nov-2009
Superb device - set up easy and within minutes able to stream iTunes to my hi-fi from my laptop. Well worth the money
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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes
Excellent
Written by PJ from Newcastle upon Tyne
01-Nov-2009
I have had one of these for over three years and have found it faultless - have updated the firmware once but otherwise it has been completely hassle free.
1 of 2 people found this useful
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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes
Not so sure about this
Written by SD from London
21-Oct-2009
When I first bought the Airport Express I was more than happy with it. I loved being able to play my music where ever and wire free. However, a few months down the line and it stopped working. The music would cut out, iTunes would report that "The base-station is dead, blah, blah, blah" and would then not be able to reconnect. It works for about a day after a factory reset and then just stops working again. I've tried updating the firmware, turning it off and on again but to no avail. Apple have been unable to help me resolve the issues and it's now too late to return the product. Has potential to be a 5* product but for above reasons I am hesitant to buy another.
24 of 32 people found this useful
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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes
Brilliant!!!
Written by NA from Forfar
19-Oct-2009
Such a brilliant idea. Great for party's. Can now have songs playing throughout the flat through different speakers in different rooms. I can even choose songs through my ipod touch. Its also great for boosting our wireless signal and great for wireless printing. Ive also connected our xbox to the ethernet port in the base station so we can now run xbox live. Its easy to set up too. Buy it! Buy it! Buy it!
12 of 15 people found this useful
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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes
product life very limited
Written by VB from Paris
17-Oct-2009
This product died after 1 year of use.
17 of 28 people found this useful
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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes
Excellent WiFi solution
Written by MF from København K
16-Oct-2009
The Airport Express works flawlessly! The connection reaches every corner of my 80m2 apartment without loss of connectivity. I have it set up with a MacBook Pro, a PC, an iPod Touch an Xbox 360 AND two printers (one wirelessly on the network and one through the Airport Express itself via the USB) and I haven't met any problems whatsoever so far. Software's excellent too. Highly recommendable - since you also get value for money with internal antennas, 802.11n, AirTunes and great design! A fifth star would have required a lower price or perhaps the ability to connect to other things (TV, hard drives etc.).
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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes
Airport Express Disaster
Written by CW from Wargrave
14-Oct-2009
Just bought Airport Express today to stream i-tunes from my PC. I have spent over 4 hours trying to get it to connect wirelessly, but it just won't get recocgnised on my home network. It is fine with an ethernet connection, but the whole point of buying it is for wireless. I fear this product will be binned, as Apple will no doubt refuse a re-fund. I am a reasonablY competent techno guy having set up small server based office networks, but this has stumped me. Suggest any PC users avoid this like the plague. I'll just have to wait until Apple allow people to stream through PS3's - that was dead easy to set up and streams photo's etc really well. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!
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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes
UNRELIABLE
Written by GE from TENBY
13-Oct-2009
After two days of trying to get it to work and a revisit to the store I find this to be the most temperamental and unreliable products ever produced by Apple. Each reset and setup fails to deliver connectivity. I would not recommend this to anyone on any account. I will be returning it for a refund but am tempted to throw it out of my bedroom window as I write.
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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes
Take it from an expert...
Written by AD
03-Oct-2009
The AirPort Expresses are the best wireless extenders on the market.
Whilst not cheap, they're certainly the easiest.
Even someone with very little technical knowledge can configure them as wireless extenders. And, unlike a lot of wireless extenders that use WDS, you can chain more than three together. Great if you have thick walls or live in a large house.
They have the added benefit of AirTunes and printer sharing (although no compatibility with the scanner part of All-in-Ones, probably due to driver issues).
They do offer some prosumer and professional options, such as RADIUS support, but they don't offer as many features as some of the cheaper routers out there. This being said, many of the Linksys units, once the best in this area, are very buggy.
The Expresses are also very reliable and take well to being unplugged and moved about, compensating and reconnecting automatically.
Range leaves a little to be desired but not awful.
A web interface would be nice too, especially to configure over the web (you have to use AirPort Utility for this).
Beware: If you need to connect more than 10 wireless devices at once, you'll need the AirPort Extreme.
If you're fed up with wireless dropouts, fiddly networks or you want something simple that you can plug in and forget about go out and get one of these!8 of 8 people found this useful
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