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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Excellent while it worked

Written by MI from New Haven

Nov 30, 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...

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Airtunes: bad; Internet: good

Written by GW from Clackamas

Nov 13, 2009

If you are looking for a wireless device, this might work great for you. If you are buying it to send music around your house, be advised: Airtunes is EXTREMELY buggy (hard to believe Apple sells it!). Any updates to your OS, iTunes, Airport Utility, personal finance software or Web browser might render it inoperative. Or it might work. You can't ever tel;l. It's so spotty that I'm looking for the "Made by Microsoft" label!

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Mine died

Written by JP from Philomath

Nov 9, 2009

I have had my Airport Express N for 15 months, and it died last night, the hard reset wouldnt work it just resulted in a flashing amber light, and when i try to connect to it over ethernet It says it updates but it really does'nt do anything.
I have found other reports of this online as well.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

good product useless without gigabit ethernet

Written by AA from Rancho Cordova

Nov 6, 2009

Any product truly trying to do 802.11n should have gigabit connection to the server.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

I Don't Understand What This Is Used For!!

Written by LB from Asheville

Oct 25, 2009

My dad got this as a gift for me on my birthday because I told him I wanted WiFi. He knew I was a HUGE Apple fanatic, so this was the obvious choice in our price range. While trying to set it up, I was confused over the fact that it only had one ethernet port, meaning that once I plugged it into my ethernet port on the wall, there was no way to plug it into the computer. If you had to make the choice go with a much less expensive brand (I suggest DLink or Linksys; or if you are willing to spend the money Airport Extreme) They offer the same results and cost 50 dollars less. I ended up taking the Airport Express back and getting a much less expensive WiFi router with four ethernet ports. Setting it up took five minutes, too. I usually don't say this about Apple products, but I am really disappointed with what they made here.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

I'm getting my money back

Written by AD from Delta

Oct 9, 2009

despite all the "problems" AE seemed to have documented online on reviews, forums, etc., i went on and bought the thing having grand faith in apple. worked great, but a week later, it constantly drops the signal if its not unbearably slow. i have a macbook 5.1 on OSX 10.5.8 and a new generation ps3 on the network.

here's the strange thing: the signal dropout from my mac doesn't affect the ps3!! ps3's just fine. you'd think its the other way round. no matter what i've tried, the problem wont go away. such great potential but i'm fed up, money back please. apple needs to work on their stuff before putting it out. not the cheapest either. NEXT!! d-link here i come

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Mediocre at best

Written by MC from Saddle Brook

Oct 1, 2009

Wireless printing seems to work well once you acquire a compatible printer. The wireless music, however, is mediocre AT BEST. I have a private, reliable internet connection and my laptop sits so close to the thing that the wireless is pointless. I would need a 2 foot cord. There's nothing between the two to interfere and the music cuts in and out constantly. Just buy a plain old wireless router and don't pay Apple money for this.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

2 months and TOAST!

Written by LC from Baton Rouge

Aug 12, 2009

This was a brilliant, useful product to send music to my classic two channel system with big Boston Acoustics window rattlers - living large, I thought! The thing went nuts and then gave up the ghost in two months; I expected better. Given the layout in my 18th century brick house it would be practical if the Airports had music capacity - we have four to cover the house and office and get around heavy brick walls and they're bombproof.
Probably good for dorms and traveling, but for some of us it's an irritating extra C note wasted. Well, two hundred now, had to go buy another one.

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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

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

Apple's Error #3256 Will Drive You Crazy

Written by DJ from Sedona

Apr 19, 2009

When this thing works, it rocks. It is SO COOL to have it on your hi-fi and to be able to control tunes with your iPhone or your computer. And yet, Apple is plagued with a problem called "Error -3256" that people are experiencing all over the Internet, and which Apple has barely acknowledged. They have a firmware update that was supposed to fix it, but it doesn't work. So, you're listening to music with friends and suddenly the music starts cutting out every 30 seconds. I've spent hours trying to de-bug it and have no idea what could be wrong at this point. Good luck -- this is for ONLY the very technically talented who are able to diagnose and fix problems with no help from the manufacturer.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Dissapointed...

Written by MG from Sacramento

Mar 10, 2009

I was really excited to get it just to have the wireless printing option but it would not work with my canon ip2600. Every time I would try to print it would give me an error message even though it recognized my printer. I was so dissapointed with it that I returned it the next day.

just for the record Im a BIG apple fan and had it connected to my macbook.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Works great with iTunes

Written by HS from New York

Feb 28, 2009

Good wi-fi network and remote USB printing in a small package. Unfortunately it does not work with Front Row and Leopard-it works only with iTunes. You cannot stream wireless audio from a DVD to your stereo with this. If that deficiency is addressed I could give it 4 stars.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Third one is not the charm

Written by AH from Lafayette

Jan 2, 2009

I have owned two b/g Airport Express wireless access points and have had very good luck with them. One I used for several years as my main network wireless access. The other one was a traveling backup. This backup unit is now installed in my daughter's apartment for her Mac and PC network. She is very happy with it. I recently bought an Airport Express n-box thinking it would increase the range of my home network. Boy was I wrong. I actually got less range from the n-box, mostly due to the large number of networks in my area and the fact that I have PCs on the net that have both b and g access cards. In fact the range was so poor at my desk that the internet was useless. I think the moral of the story is to use a g-wireless box for your slower connections and a separate n-box for the faster connections. I am going to try this method out soon. For now, the new n-box sits on my desk not being used. My old reliable g-box is working away like it has for several years. I wasted money on the n-box ...... Oh well....

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Slower than my NETGEAR

Written by CC from San Diego

Dec 29, 2008

So I traded in my bulky Netgear wireless router so that I can continue on my uber trendy apple-ness, thinking my Powerbook, iPod Touch 2nd Gen, and newly Apple TV will be enhanced since it is all under the same brand.

Was I WRONG. My laptop's internet speed cut in half. YouTube videos skip because of slower bandwith (comparing to my previous router). Trying to download TV Shows is much slower.

My iPod works great because I don't really surf the net on it when I am home.

My Apple TV is the icing on the cake. It has taken 2 days, with many failed attempts at downloading a movie rental. The newest attempt has taken 3 1/2 hours and I am about 55% done. Don't get me started on the syncing with my iTunes library. The syncing began 2 days ago, and we have just reached my 3rd TV show to sync, with only 30 more to go. Not sure what I am doing wrong since many others are giving the thumbs up. There goes my uber apple-ness.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

Printer stops working after a while

Written by JM from Sault Ste. Marie

Dec 22, 2008

Was pretty easy to set up with software pre installed on new macs and the printer was easy to but after a while it stopped working. When I added iMac to my house I was offered anther printer I took it and again it worked but after awhile it stopped.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

very limited range

Written by EB from Virginia Beach

Dec 9, 2008

This is probably a good product if you are only trying to cover a small apartment, but it lacks the range to cover my medium size house. Although it worked okay up close, my MacBook lost its signal if I took it more than 2 rooms away from the base station.
I will be trading my AirPort Express in for an Airport Extreme very soon.

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AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes

b/g version lasted 4 years. no linux client.

Written by CR from Philadelphia

Dec 7, 2008

It served us well for a while but recently died out. My main gripe is that its not very open. I need a Mac or Windows PC around to just manage the router. A web based interface would be nice for management. Also, the more advanced features would be nice if they worked for Linux clients. A lot of that stuff has been coded but due to Apple constantly locking and changing their "standards" its impossible to make this happen.

Simply put, its a little engine that could and I wish it had more support and use of open standards. Performance is terrible if all computers are wireless and you are trying to transfer files between them (read: 1.5Mb a second is a joke).

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