Apple AirPort Express

August 9th, 2004 | by Jeff Fila

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Good, But Hard to Set Up for Wi-Fi Novices

by Josh on Mar 31st, 2008 at 3:48 PM:

Let me start off by saying, that once we got all the bugs worked out, this is an awesome little piece of technology. But I must also say, that it took an entire week to get all the functions to work correctly between just two computers on our home network (my I-Mac and my wife's Vista based laptop). Apple claims this is a "plug and play" item like everything else they sell. And being a die-hard Mac supporter, I can say up to this point that has always been true. Yet for those of us out there that are not familiar with setting up a Wi-Fi network, which Apple claims this product is for us, beware, you need to understand and know a lot about Wi-Fi, your cable internet (if that is what you have), and much more before you can get this thing to work. Even though most Mac's have the correct drivers (Airport Utility, etc.) already installed. Don't bother with them; install what comes on the disc supplied with your AE, this will save you about an hour of headaches. And for Vista users, don't bother with what is pre-installed or what is on the disc, download the latest version of Bonjour from the Apple website, this will save you days worth of troubleshooting on how to get the printer recognized by your PC. But, like I said, now that everything is running (haven't tried the Air Tunes because I don't care about that feature), it is like all Apple products, very, very, nice, compact, and smooth running. Apple needs to send out more detailed instructions with this product and provide better support, after all, we expect that type of service from them, not the "it doesn't work and takes forever to fix" type of service most of us have come to know and love from Microsoft.

Security not straightforward, but works great

by Ron on Dec 27th, 2007 at 5:27 PM:

Problems:

-Security setup for joining WEP networks is NOT straightforward. Certainly doable, but would be difficult for non-tech types

-Bootup time is longer than most routers, makes it confusing waiting for connection.


Positives:

-I have no discernable lags or problems in signal.

-Hookup is SIMPLE!

-Once setup, it really does work much better than competing products I have experienced and tried.


A+Design, A+Features, A+Ease of Use

by Napplestic on Aug 2nd, 2006 at 8:12 AM:

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Terrible trouble followed by heaven

by Paddy on Dec 8th, 2004 at 5:09 AM:

I am a non-apple user and I also have an existing wireless network at home. I was desperate to connect my laptop wirelessly to my various hi-fis. The instalation was very difficult and didnt work but eventually it just did! very bizare. Now it works I love it! There are some quirks though from time to time the connection drops but its opretty infrequent and the wife loves the lack of cables!

What?? Am I using the same product

by Amy in BOS on Oct 24th, 2004 at 8:09 AM:

I thought the review in this article are clearly off. Why do I need to but the kit to use iTunes on my stereo I went to Walmart and got the same products, non apple, for less than $10.00. This product is perfect and does what it says it will. The only issue I had is the lack of a remnote control but I just create a playlist and have no worries.

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