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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

AMAZING!

Written by DH from Carmel

Jun 5, 2009

Very easy to set up, I now have speakers connected wirelessly, as well as my printer! Does not drop the wireless like my old router did.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

AWESOME

Written by BH from Winston salem

Jun 1, 2009

Set up 3 of these in a friends house and it only took a few minutes. The hardest part was thinking of a good network name. havent heard any complaints from him.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Irritating Problems

Written by RG from Chicago

May 31, 2009

It'll work for months, then it'll go out. Light will be green but itunes can't see it. These things have always worked intermittently for me. And I HATE the airport utility. Rescan, yeah right. The express light is green, it thinks it's on the airport extreme base station network but it never shows up in airport utility. I've had to reset it numerous times and finally reset the entire network to get it to work. In addition, some stupid firmware upgrade to the base station made my older (2) air port express units no longer operable. Way to go! Spent money on those and now they won't work with the upgrade. I wish there was some alternative and this flies in the face of most of apples easy to use features (okay, maybe not Back to My Mac but still...)

29 of 55 people found this useful

AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Disappointing :)

Written by BS from Victoria

May 30, 2009

The title is, of course, tongue in cheek. I cannot imagine a simpler product to set up. I bought one this afternoon because I was getting bored and wanted to try out streaming my iTunes library to my stereo (replacing an iPod dock in the process). I plugged it into the outlet next to my stereo, moved the cable over from the dock, launched my AirPort Setup Utility, selected the device (which seemingly magically appeared in the list with my Airport Extreme basestation) and went through the setup prompts and... it worked. Launched iTunes, saw my new AirPort Express appear in a newly-appearing dropdown list and I was then off to the races.

Now I have to buy something else to quench my boredom. Maybe a Windows device?!

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Great product once it is setup

Written by MB from Tucson

May 29, 2009

Set up was as expected… took 3 days and several Advil tablets. True plug and play. Plug it in and play for days trying to get the thing up and running. I tried so many different setting before it finally was working that I have no idea what I did to get it to work. That was the set up experience. Now that it works, it has been great. I use it to stream music to my kitchen stereo. Sound is fantastic. Works ever time and has great range. I want another one to use with a portable music device in my back yard. Right now I’m unplugging the airport express and using it where ever I need it because I dread going through the set up process again. Yes I'll buy another one but I'll need to take time off from work and pre-medicate before I go through that set up process again.

23 of 38 people found this useful

AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Works flawlessly with Xbox 360! Plug n Play--just don't plug too soon.

Written by SM from Sun Prairie

May 29, 2009

I just received the Airport Express 802.11n with airtunes. Into the Aexpress, I plugged a CAT5 cable into the ethernet port, plugged a mini to RCA into the mini out port, and plugged a usb cable into the usb port. Into the electrical outlet I plugged in the AExpress. On the Aexpress, the light went green (one second), then amber(for quite a few seconds), and then blinked amber just as the instructions indicated. Using the airport utility (on my macbook) I told the Aexpress to join an existing network (my existing network is Charter 10MB cable service to a Toshiba modem to an old airport extreme 802.11g (dome shaped not square) which has an ethernet out to an xbox 360 in family room and wireless connection to my macbook). In the Airport Utility I also clicked on the box to "allow ethernet connections" to the Aexpress. I clicked update in the Airport Utility. The Aexpress restarted (it took quite a few seconds), the blinking amber light went solid green. I plugged the RCA cable into my stereo, went to iTunes, clicked the drop down menu in the lower right corner, as the instructions say, clicked play on iTunes and like magic Led Zeppelin was streaming from my macbook to my stereo. I plugged the usb into my canon pixma ip4500, and printed a web page and a word document with no problems(this may have been luck, you may need to adjust settings so your computer and printer are setup to send/receive wireless printing). Now the big test, and the reason I bought the Airport Express; I plugged the cat5 cable from Aexpress into my second xbox 360, turned on the xbox 360, and joined xbox live instantly!!! No NAT errors. no IP errors, no DNS resolve errors! I'm getting 4 out of 4 bars signal strength when running netflix on both of my xbox 360 (one wired, and my new wireless one). I am playing xbox live on both xbox 360 with no glitches or drops. I really didn't expect it to be this easy. Just FYI all IP, subnet mask, gateway/router and DNS settings on my Airport Extreme base, my Airport Express, my macbook, and both xbox 360 are set to AUTOMATIC not manual. So I did not have to mess with any settings. Truly a Plug N Play Experience for me. If you are wondering if the Aexpress will work with xbox 360, it definitely does. I don't think I have ever given a product 5 stars before this. Thanks Apple!

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Disconnects Daily

Written by ML from Chicago

May 28, 2009

My Airport Express has been disconnecting daily from my wireless network for months now. There is a thread in Apple's support forums in which tons of people have complained about the same problem. Many people seem happy with these things, but for a lot of users they have been a source of great frustration — myself included.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Best product for the $$$

Written by DB from torrance

May 26, 2009

The Airport Express is definitely worth every cent. It is easy to set up, provides great wireless networking, and the range meets my needs. I recommend this product to all who want to set up a wireless network in their home. Unlike most wireless network routers, the Airport Express does not need to be connected to a desktop computer. Just plug in and start surfing. I have told all my family and friends to get one!

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

I love these gadgets!

Written by CS from New Glarus

May 25, 2009

I bought one of these a few years ago to stream music to my stereo a few rooms away. It worked great. I recently bought another so I used one to set up a wireless network and the new one to extend my network to reach more of my house. Extending the network took me the better part of two days (and some foul language) but I finally got it done and it works! Thanks for such a great product.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Want to love it, but can't yet

Written by VG from Norfolk

May 25, 2009

I works great when it works, connection speed is great and the printer sharing is just what our house needed. What I can't stand is the fact that is keeps losing the signal from the cable modem. Everyday at least twice during the waking hours I have to unplug the AirEx and count to ten and plug it back in. So far this seems to work, but I'm surprised Apple hasn't helped in fixing the problem. I hate to suggest I'm looking to move on from it, but because the AirEx is in the basement, every unplug session requires a trip downstairs. The whole point of the iMac upstairs was to keep us together during our few minutes of spare time. Please help anyone, i know i'm not alone in this problem.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Flawless

Written by GC from Raanana

May 24, 2009

As an experienced Mac user, I was still surprised by how fast and simple this was to set up.
I've connected it to my DSL router and the living room stereo and plugged it in. The AirPort Utility on my Mac automatically recognized it, popped a wizard with a few simple questions and viola... that's it. It was up and running - both me and my wife's PC laptop we're connected to the internet and each other. I then setup file and printer sharing which was a breeze, and we now enjoy our whole music library in our living room. Fantastic!

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Died, in literally 6 hours

Written by JK from Allendale

May 23, 2009

This product was great for the 6 hours it was working. Setup was a snap, networking was great, airtunes was awesome, and then all of a sudden it was dead. No light, nothing. It just died.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

problem with charging!

Written by MR from Jamaica

May 22, 2009

set up was super easy. works very well.
however, i try to charge my iphone and ipod with this product. it is so annoying that my iphone charge signal keeps going on & off continuously & it never charge. I'm wondering does this thing really work as a charger or not...?

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Express Happiness

Written by AP from Albany

May 19, 2009

The AirPort Express is one of those products that make you wonder how you got along without it. I have one in my garage so I can listen to music without having to take my iPod and dock out and risk getting grease and oil on them; I have one set up so I can wirelessly print from my Mac Mini or PC Laptop; and, I have one setup to connect other people's computers to my network when I work on them so I don't have to run wires all over the place. Setup was easy and adding additional Base Stations is a snap. I'm considering buying more so I can extend my network into the back yard, play iTunes on our main Stereo in the living room, and have one for when we travel.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Not Compatible

Written by CM from Mansfield Center

May 19, 2009

I bought this thinking I could extend my old Airport Base Station (.11b compliant). I was wrong, which I discovered with much help from Apple Support, for which I'm grateful. I had to go back and buy a second Express to cover my house. The low rating is because the limitation wasn't clear up front; the product is fine.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

1st CLASS !!!!!!

Written by SP from carrickfergus

May 16, 2009

I had this streming my itunes in less than 5 mins without reading the manual,my advice BUY ONE NOW!!

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

User friendly!

Written by AA from Vancouver

May 12, 2009

This airport express is amazing. I was between the airport express and the airport extreme since the airport extreme in the store was on sale because someone opened at the store by mistake. I got the airport express because I travel a lot and my place is small. It works perfectly in my apartment (640 sq ft). You can use it to charge your iPod. One thing I really hate, is that you can use the speakers only with iTunes, not with everything. So if you are playing video on youtube, you will have to use the internal speakers. This airport express is amazing if you have a relatively small area, you move a lot and you don't have many users to share your devices with.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Works well but instructions are terrible

Written by FS

May 11, 2009

I bought an Airport Express to see if it would be a good solution for adding an HP Laserjet printer to my home network for sharing the printer in a mixed environment of PCs and Macs. Shortly before buying the Airport Express, I had installed a Linksys wireless print server, which was a pain to install and was not yet allowing me to access the printer via the Macs (some tech support would have been necessary) although the Windows machines were working with the print server.

One of the network techs at work recommended the Airport Express as, potentially, a better solution than the Linksys product. It is better in that I have all computers sharing the printer now, but the install instructions are terrible, even cryptic. I am reasonably savvy when it comes to computers, but the network layers are pretty darn hard to work with and Apple needs to provide a greatly expanded install guide, especially for setting up the AE with Windows PCs. I had to go to the Web and search for solutions in various discussion threads, and that really is unacceptable when installing a product to take advantage of capabilities that are highlighted on the box and the Apple site.

In addition, I did encounter errors when attempting to get the Macs to share the printer through the AE, and the network connection was not stable. Everything settled down when a diagnostic screen indicated I had to upgrade the AE's firmware. Seems obvious in retrospect, but this sort of install step should be featured prominently in the install instructions.

Having gone through all this, I am impressed with the product and feel it is more competitive on a cost benefit basis than a lot of other networking accessories I have used. BUT, please, much more comprehensive install instructions in the future!

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