| Apple Airport Express | 
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| Brand: Apple
Category: CE
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $69.99
You Save: $30.00 (30%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (57 reviews)
Sales Rank: 129
Format: Cd
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Modem: None
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 3 x 1.1 x 3.7
MPN: MB321LL/A
Model: MB321LL/A
UPC: 885909200979
EAN: 0885909200979
ASIN: B0015YJOK2
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Airport Express + iPod/iPhone = Rival to $999 Sonos System! October 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
With the Airport Express, I have a music server experience to die for!
I have an iPhone 3G and my wife owns an iPod Touch. After downloading Apple's free "Remote" application for both i-devices and setting up the Airport Express, we can now use the Airport Express to wirelessly access our computer's music library from the comfort of our living room!
With the "Remote" application, the cover art of the currently playing song shows up on our i-devices, we can choose any of our playlists or search for artists or songs with their virtual keyboard and, naturally, any music we download or rip is instantly available for us to listen to!
What impressed me beyond the smooth, easy, attractive implementation of the Apple system is the price; It's similar to competing Sonos BU150 Multiroom Music System wireless digital music systems which costs up to $999!
Unlike the Sonos system, however, the Apple setup also lets you take your music WITH YOU in your pocket via your iPhone/iPod and use the PDA/phone/game & other application features of the i-devices!
If you already have an iPhone or iPod Touch, or even if you don't and are looking for a way to stream your iTunes music to a room in your house, the i-device/Airport Express combination make an impressive duo to accomplish the task!
GREAT! easy install October 24, 2008
This is a great product! Arrived quickly and set up and was sooooo easy. The laptop connected right up and for my older G4 I needed an additional piece [as they don't make compatible airport cards any longer] which was the QuickerTek nNano 802.11n Wi-Fi USB Adapter. Once I had that we were good to go!
 Not Impressed October 22, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Purchased 3 of these units to work with a Linksys N router, Netgear N router, and an Apple N router in a large (6000+ sft) home. The Airport Expresses did not live up to our expectations. These units will work well if you already have a medium to strong wireless signal from your other routers. I had hoped the airport express would be able to boost a weak signal in small areas of the home, but without much luck. The airport express had trouble maintaining a connection to the network in any room with a weak signal. even when the express was able to connect to the network, the wireless signal produced was sub-par and did not even cover the room, let alone any rooms nearby. we tried multiple locations and orientations of these units to no avail. my recommendation would be to spend the couple extra bucks and get another airport extreme.
Simple. Small. Fast. And it works... with proper setup October 22, 2008
I use the Airport Express primarily with a MacBook Pro, but I also use it occasionally with an iMac. It works flawlessly and is very fast. Aside from its ability to share printers and iTunes, what I really like about this Apple product is the simple fact that it is so compact. At home, it adds wirelss connectivity to my DSL/router network, but I can easily slip it into my laptop case to take on the road. Then, if I'm at a location that only provides a wired network port... voila, I've got my own wireless network.
Here's a simple overview on setup options that may help clarify how to set up your wireless network. Some DSL/cable modems have the username and password already saved within them. In these cases, you'll use the Airport Utility application to set the Airport Express to "Bridge mode". Then, your computer uses "DHCP" in the Network preferences under the "TCP/IP" pane. Other DSL/cable modems pass along the username and password information from your computer or Airport each time you log in via PPPoe. If you have one of these types of connections, then you'll need to use the Airport Utility application to save the username and password into the Airport Express under the PPPoe pane (a one-time setup). Again, the wireless computer would use "DHCP" in the Network preferences under the "TCP/IP" pane.
Only piece of equipment I've ever thrown away in frustration October 21, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Bought mine about three years ago. After 6 hours trying to make it work, I succeeded after following the advice on this forum and others. Then I bought a standard linksys wireless N router, decided to use WEP security, and my laptop would not recognize the AE again - even after another 4 hours of trying everything that had worked before. 80-90% of the world still uses Windows. The fact that Apple makes it so hard for Windows users is unacceptable - they should instead state it is a Mac only product so the rest of us don't waste our time.
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