Apple AirPort Express with Air Tunes M9470LL/A [OLD VERSION]
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Customer Review: Best $100 I've spent in Years - I'm sold on Apple now
Summary: 5 Stars
I own all vista computers, but my next computer will be an Apple for sure. I bought this for one feature alone, to have wireless itunes in different rooms. I owned a Roku, but I lamented for years that I couldn't wirelessly sync the music to different rooms. Those days are over and my Roku is going on ebay tonight!
I was up and running in SECONDS and perfectly sync'd music between my living room (vista) and bedroom (express). I want to get another one soon! But I found out that there's shareware out there that'll let my use my other pc's (a sage box) as an airport express outlet so I can sync up pcs, macs AND airports!
And if you have an iphone or itouch, you can use it to remotely control all your devices too! To think I was on the brink of buying a sonos, but this solution is so much cheaper, upgradeable and all around wondeful.
Not to mention all the other benefits:
--portabe wireless router when I'm traveling
--portable usb power for ipod and other devices (blackberry?)
--wireless usb printer
--802.11 access point (this alone is worth at least a hundred bucks!)
--wireless bridge to expand the wireless range in your home
I can't believe I was on the fence for so long, now I can't live without it and I've only had it for a few minutes!
Customer Review: Music Lover's Item
Summary: 5 Stars
This item is a music lover's dream. Too bad I didn't find out about it sooner but the short time I have with it has been amazing. I don't even use it for wireless internet, just the Air Tunes feature is worth the price of admission. The fact that I can listen to all my itunes music wirelessly on my better sounding speaker setup across my room has opened up a lot of possibilities in my music listening experience. The only downside, I guess, would be that it's only compatible with iTunes but since I'm a Mac user it's really not a problem. Installation (on Macs) is as easy as just plugging it to the outlet, connecting it to your speakers with either an analog or optical cable, turning on the Airport feature on the Mac and just wait for it to be recognized, select it, open iTunes, choose it on the bottom of the page and voila, your ready to experience your whole music library with just a couple of clicks and with no messy wires. I recommend an optical connection if your set up supports it over an analog (red and white iPod cable) connection. I tried them both and music coming out through an optical connection had better clarity and quality, but that's just my appreciation. The fact is that I'm really happy with it and I should have had one of these when they first came out.
Joel Vallejo
Customer Review: Great addition to Apple's networking product line
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a mixed SOHO network with Macs (running OS X) and PeeCees (Win XP). The Express sets up effortlessly. Just for fun we substituted it briefly for our Airport (white) AXP / router. The susbsitution including setting up 128-bit WEP encryption went off with no problems. We reverted only because we bought the Express to extend our wireless range and to add wireless network access to a new USB multifunction device. Our old one was a parallel port model interfaced to a Lynksys WP 11 which was a nightmare to set up in a mixed network and very slow. I discount the gripes about latest firmware, etc. - this goes without saying for almost anything you buy these days. The setup utilities running on a Mac platform work flawlessly in our experience. I"d suspect the PC setup could be more problematic thanks to XP wanting to "take over" the network installation. Assuming you enable Air Tunes and you have the right version of iTunes on your computers, you see the name you gave your AP Express when you set it up. We've found that enabling interference robustness and at extreme range, Air Tunes can skip - but with normal signal strength it's been solid. For price and functionality, it's hard to beat. Hard to believe they got it all in that little box.Customer Review: Simply the best extension!
Summary: 5 Stars
Howdy folks! i have been experimenting with the Airport Extreme base station and was a bit hesitant with this little gizmo initially. Let me walk your through with my problem:
1. Already have a Apple Extreme base station hook up with 7 different machines hooked up to it (Mac and PC)
2. Wireless coverage is fantastic in the house and out side my apartment building all the way to my car 2 floor down.
The problem: wanted to have my neighbor share this connection but the signal was too weak for them to catch it.
Solution: Apple Airport Express! This little device was connected in his apartment floor (mind you that our building has very heavy concrete and Windows all over it which disrupts the signal) and it worked like a charm.
Few observations:
* U will need to set your Apple Base station for WDS and add the MAC Address of the airport express to the network router already
* The base station should be placed closer to a window if your planning to share with residents below your building.
I suspect this will work with other WiFi setups and not confined to Apple Airport only. A must have for any wireless setup; a bit pricey but i can assure u the quality is there.
Customer Review: Thrilled, but setup (on a PC) was rough
Summary: 5 Stars
Situation: I'm using my Airport Express in the living room to stream music from iTunes on my WinXP/Dell PC to my stereo.
Pros: once it's set up, it's beautiful. It's totally seamless and sounds great. It sounds noticeably better than plugging my iPod into the stereo using the same cable.
Cons: It took me three hours to set up! I know that sounds crazy, but really, I'm a computer savy person. The key was to set up the Airport Express as its own network first and second to make it a client of my existing wifi home network. The problem is that the second step wasn't easy to locate among all of the tabs and otpions in the Airport Administrator software.
Overall, I'm thrilled with the product. Now that it's up and working, it's everything I was hoping it would be. Definitely worth it! I can stream radio stations from all over the world or play my 8GB of MP3/AAC music on my hard drive to my living room wirelessly. My neighbor spent thousands of dollars wiring a similar solution behind the baseboard molding (read: $$$). I don't know that I'll ever use my CDs again!
When will Apple make it such that we can stream video from a PC/Apple to my TV? Seems like the logical next step...