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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

DO NOT BUY ANY MAC NETWORK DEVICE

Written by JN from Reading

26-Mar-2009

Mac products are generally very good but there network devices are terrible, I sent a time capsule back. now I am on the brink of replacing my two airport express devices after upgrading to 7.4.1.

Yes they have great features, and you think wow I would really like to listen to music in different rooms, print and go back to my home computer. If they worked or even consistently appeared and did not drop the connection every day or sometimes twice a day. Version 7.3 was not too bad at least once it had dropped the connection it would pick it up again.

I recommend thinking seriously before investing in these products. In fact think belkin, think netgear... think two cups and some string, if you want a decent network.

I am not alone and you should not join me, simply search the web to see how poor this product is.

14 of 58 people found this useful

AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Absolutely impressive and simple

Written by PC from Bjaeverskov

20-Mar-2009

It works exactly as expected and it works seamlessly from iTunes and iPhone Remote through wireless - even changing between connected speakers can be done on the iPhone Remote. Take note however - It was bought to work as an interface for my living-room speakers and I have not tried the other functions - yet.

Apple is impressively good at integrating the easy-of-use experience and I am truly impressed.

5 of 5 people found this useful

AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Simple, Fantastic!!!!

Written by PM from glasgow

12-Mar-2009

This is a must for anyone wanting to stream music wireless to say a av amp or stereo in another room, works fantastic and easy to setup, please dont blame apple for drop-outs in the sound if you are not using apple wireless equipment! they cant test it with every single wireless router folks!, if you use this as a main wireless hub, i.e connect your modem to it then it works perfect and you get super fast internet speed and no drop-outs at all!!. Fantastic product, thanks apple

15 of 16 people found this useful

AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Simple and easy to use

Written by JS from Sheerness

10-Mar-2009

This is the first piece of apple hardware I have used and to be honest I’m now an apple fan. I found it so easy to setup and had no problems connecting it to my BT wireless hub. A great piece of kit and enabled me to share my printer without the need to switch on the main computer.

12 of 14 people found this useful

AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Fast as fast can be

Written by PG from Barking

10-Mar-2009

Brilliant, it took 4 minutes to setup the whole thing,
and is really fast in the overall internet environment it does work fine when downloading heavy HD videos.
I would say after everything I had used this is so far the best.

11 of 12 people found this useful

AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Amazing!

Written by CR from Verwood

08-Mar-2009

What a great device, so easy to set up and use, what a simple and cheap way to have music throughout your house.
Being able to control via your i-phone just blows my mind.
Another great Apple device. I love it.

4 of 4 people found this useful

AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

All my Internet Problems have been solved :D

Written by GH from Chorley

27-Feb-2009

This product is brilliant,
I was starting to have connection problems with the BT Business Hub (The signal would go every 5...10...15..20 minutes, so I went on a car drive after college to PC World and saw this I thought ooh that might work and with a talk with the Apple Expert I decided to buy it
Connecting it up to the BT Business hub was so easy in a few simple steps (On my iMac) and it was done
I would recommend this to anyone who has problems connecting to their BT Network works like a charm for both PC and Mac

21 of 22 people found this useful

AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

If it worked it'd be 5 stars

Written by TB from London

23-Feb-2009

I have had mine about 3 weeks now & on my 2nd unit. I bought it to stream iTunes to my desktop speakers, as I hate having loads of wires plugged into my macBook pro. When it works it's absolutely fine, but the thing is, the sound keeps dropping out, sometimes making it unlistenable. I have tried adjusting the settings, but with no joy. I personally think that there's an incompatibility issue with iTunes 8, and will hopefully be sorted out by an update in the near future, if not, then I will be giving up on it & chucking it in the bin. At the moment it pains me to say, but it's the worst Apple product I have ever bought & it really lets the side down.
Come on Apple, SORT IT OUT!!!

21 of 49 people found this useful

AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

The best product one can buy!!!

Written by SB from Cambridge

23-Feb-2009

I bought this wonderful product from apple and never regretted my decision . Basically I wanted to have a WLAN in my university room here in Cambridge from the LAN connection, and it took no time to setup up (I have Windows VISTA).
What really amazes me is the size and the amount of functionality it supports--You can either connect to an existing WIFI network (with whatever security requirement WEP,WPA/WPA2 etc) , or connect directly from your cable modem to set up a new wireless network or make a ethernet connection wireless. It also has a usb port that supports only printing (not hard drive) and a 35mm audio out jack to wireless-ly stream music from itunes. What is really amazing is that you can use all these at the same time!!!
Wonderful product and setup is a breeze for anyone with a little knowledge.
Highly recommended!!!!

23 of 24 people found this useful

AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

simple, easy & effective.

Written by OW from London

17-Feb-2009

purchased over 18mths ago and rarely gives me any issues. it does what it says on the box without fuss.
i've seen a few reviews relating to it being hard to set up - not the case at all. plug it in, run the utility, give your network a name, done.
if it ever dies like some have to othersm i will have absolutely no qualms in going out and buying another.

6 of 7 people found this useful

AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Very useful

Written by AT from Epsom

15-Feb-2009

I bought this primarily to use with airtunes. My PC running Itunes is upstairs, and my HiFi is downstairs in the living room. It has been brilliant to be able to stream music over my WiFi network (Netgear DG834N), with remote control via Ipod touch.
I am also able to use the ethernet port on the airport express to extend my network and internet to other devices such as Xbox 360 or Sony Bravia. Also you are not just limited to streaming music with airtunes. Checkout airfoil - great software that enables you to stream audio from any PC of mac application to an airport express.
My only criticism is with Apples's documentation. Setting up was more complicated than expected. Apart from this - airport express is a fantastic product, and I highly recommend it.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Not for Kodak!

Written by PK from Mirfield

14-Feb-2009

This sounded like the perfect add on for my new iMac. I was switching from PC to iMac and decided to overhaul the way I used my computers at home. I thought I'd be able to have my Kodak printer, a great AiO, cheap to run and great photos, attached to the AirPort. Wrong it took two days of phone calls to Apple to actually get the Airport to work as a network and then one call to Kodak to find that it isn't compatible with wireless technology. So sent the Airport back for a refund, reconnected my Belkin WiFi, hard wired the printer and internet to the iMac and now am back to using a USB stick to move documents from one machine to another when I want to print! Take great care that the printer you want to attach is compatible with the system BEFORE buying.

6 of 26 people found this useful

AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Does exactly what it says on the tin

Written by MR from Thatcham

12-Feb-2009

Beautiful little product and worked straight out of the box with minimal fuss.
From opening the packaging to tunes streaming over airtunes took less than 5 minutes. It was a breeze to marry it up to my existing wireless network (with a netgear wireless router).
I only intend to use the airtunes functionality and haven't tested the other functions. But airtunes alone....wow. I have all my music streaming from the macmini in the study to the living room, using my iPhone with remote app as a media controller.
Perfect

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

A pleasure to use...

Written by JB from York

10-Feb-2009

Installing the Airport Express as part of my existing wireless home network (broadband internet wirelessly broadcast by a BT Home Hub) was extremely straight forward. After a hideous previous experience with Netgear equipment I swore blind that I would never mess around with wireless home networking again..... However, Apple have done it again: simple, cost effective and a pleasure to set up, I can now stream music around my house whilst still surfing the web on my Mac via my wireless internet connection. However, the icing on the cake has to be the Remote App for my iPhone..... Genius. I have just ordered another express for my other Hi-Fi.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Didn't quite do what the sales guy said

Written by AA from Bath

07-Feb-2009

I was sold one of these to work as a wireless network interface at 5Ghz N speeds(i.e. to use it to connect my LAN port to a wireless network generated by my Time Capsule)

Fantastic, I thought, all the speed of Wireless N! Unfortunately the express only has a 10/100 LAN port so would bottle neck to below the speed I could get with 2.4 Ghz N... if I had actually managed to get it working in that mode (I gave up once I noticed the 10/100 problem so don't have a full review).

I've got to give it only the one star since it didn't do what I was told it would. Whatever you want it to do might be fine though.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

JUST BUY IT AND BREATH SLOWLY AGAIN!

Written by MF from PETERSFIELD

26-Jan-2009

I am sooooooo happy. Did I just tell you how happy I am? well here's the story:

A long time ago in a land far away, a little pixie had delivered a large and impressive HP colour Laser Printer, oh try as he might the pixie couldn't get the evil printer to behave properly even though it was on direct output from the iMAC's USB port, upgraded within a nanosecond of upgrade downloads and yes there was a few connectors in the stream but no where near the dreaded 5 Metres of death and destruction.

So one humble day this pixie thought long and hard about how he would ever print a large document again without drop outs, pauses and gobbledegook. And so with a long face and a deep sigh he thought that he would try the Air Port Express.

The UPS man did deliver upon to this pixie the device and after a few clicks here and a plug socket there, the little pixie had paper flying out of his printer like he had never had before, PDF's - a breeze, large Word docs' a mere trifle!

So the moral of this story is "Don't be down just get Apple every time." (and the little Pixie lived happily ever after) and hopes not to suffer from the 1 year death knell!

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Great if it worked!

Written by BC from Brentwood

20-Jan-2009

Bought this for my Mum for xmas so she could listen to her music upstairs on her new mac which she loves. Told her it was simple to set up but she didn't get round to it so i popped in when i had a spare 5 mins.

Oh dear I was there for 3 hours getting to various levels of completing the set up and after speaking to Apple support team for nearly an hour they could only tell me it didn't work. Duh i knew that!

I have tried a replacement product and even got to listen to music for 2 seconds before it cut out. The base station is 2 metres form the Mac while we test it! Looking forward to wasting another day taking it back for a refund to our not so local mac store.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Really Impressed With This !!

Written by AS from Driffield

18-Jan-2009

After moving to University in september last year, i decided i needed a wireless network going in my room. One of the main reasons i purchased one of these was so i could connect the the internet with my Macbook Air. It was annoying me having to plug the ethernet cable into a usb adaptor and using the only usb socket on the MBA. WHen i got this i simply plugged my ethernet cable in the bottom; and i could access the internet straight away, but it was un-secure at this point. After installing the utility software it was quick and easy to make it secure. I now have my macbook air, mac mini and iPhone all running off it with an good range. After reading the manual i discovered i could plug my printer into the bottom of the airport via usb and wirelessly print anywhere in my flat, Great !!! and just when i thought it couldn't get any better i connected a pair of speakers up to it and now i can play my itunes music wirelessly over the network. very impressive

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