Airport Express Review
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Gerald’s house in Macon has one — and he had some setup issues, as well, but once it was running, it did beautifully. (His replaced an 802.11b “snow” base station, rather than trying to extend it as TD did.)
The remote was a non-issue for us, since there were three Apple laptops in the house — the biggest issue was who got to stream…!
The only other item I’d point out is potentially obvious — but wirelessly streaming music does bad things for your download and especially your networking speeds.
Having said all of that, I have to mention that it’s still a 10 on the cool-factor scale, and I’d love one…;)
I have one - bought it the day they became available.
I can say three words about it: It is magic
I plugged it in. During minute number two I set it up, and by minute four was reading bOING bOING from my livingroom couch.
Like so many Apple products, it just… works! Maybe the easiest, best $130 I ever spent.
Have an AirEx and had the same troublefree install as Rick. Also haven’t experienced any internet transfer slowdown. Are you sure about that one, Giles?
Yes. We were mixing 802.11b and -g at the same time, a definite speed bottleneck. (We have that problem here, too.) When it was 802.11g only, it was better.
We were setting up a server, though, and were moving a ton of files. While trying to listen to streamed music. Nothing like pushing the boundaries…!
Are you only able to listen to your iTunes list of songs? or are you able to listen to MediaPlayer file or dvd movies?
Only iTunes, Juan — although there are rumors that more apps will support it or that it’ll be added to the system level in Tiger, aka Mac OS X 10.4.
But that would only be the audio — if you’re going to watch a movie and want the sound in a remote location, wouldn’t you want the video, too? There’s no way 802.x can support that kind of bandwidth.