Good Product (while it lasts)
The Airport Express is a great idea that works really well FOR AS LONG AS IT LASTS. However, mine having died after about 15 months did not provide me with a satisfactory return on my investment. When it died, I did a Google search and found that the internet is littered with references to dead Airport Express devices all seemingly suffering the same fate. I cannot bring myself to either buy another one nor recommend it to anyone based on my own experience and what I have read of others. Maybe if they had a 24 month warranty on them it would give me more confidence.
Excellent - if you have a Mac get Airfoil
The airport express is a great piece of kit. Ironically I found it easier to set up from a PC rather than a Mac.
To make it really sing get a copy of Airfoil. Excellent Mac software that lets you stream any sound source - Realplayer, Firefox, BBC radio - from your Mac to the Airport. Fantastic if you use it with the BBC Radio listen again feature.
It's a very cost effective way to create a multi room hifi system.
This is a perfect piece of hardward, and worth every
One of the reasons why I migrated to the Mac was that I wanted to move to ADSL and a home wireless system without too much pain. The AirPort Express in fact proved so fantastically easy to install that I still don't really believe it is actually working. Thank God it stops communicating with my Mac's occasionally if only to highlight how fantastically simple it is to re-install. Just pull it out of the socket, switch off the ADSL, and then switch it on again, plug back in the base station, and wireless is back without doing anything. Other reviewers mention the simple instructions - who needs instructions for something as easy as this! I use it with 2 different Mac's, and I also connected it to my USB printer without problems, but I have not used it yet with my stereo system, nor have I connected it to a PC. It works over quite a distance, at least enough to cover 2 floors of a largish house. Couple of reviews mentioned it braking down - I have had mine about a year and if it does...
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