Apple AirPort Express with Air Tunes (M9470LL/A)

Average customer rating: 4.0

TOSLINK
Freedom
Not as versatile as you may think:
aggravating beyond belief to setup
Versatile and reliable once installed

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Apple AirPort Express with Air Tunes (M9470LL/A)

Manufacturer: Apple Computer
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B0002GDIII
2004-07-24

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Product Description

Apple M9470LL/A AirPort Express Base Station - The AirPort Express is a very unique wireless base station. It fits in the palm of your hand, plugs directly into a wall outlet, and allows you to wirelessly connect to the Internet, print, and stream iTunes music to any room in your home. It does this via 3 bult-in ports. A WAN Ethernet port for your cable or DSL modem, a USB port for your printer, and an Audio port for your home stereo. Security - Built-in Firewall, Password Protection, Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) Support, & 128-bit WEP Encryption Supports up to 10 users NOTE - Wireless printing over USB requires Mac OS X v10.2.7 or later or Windows XP or Windows 2000 and a compatible printer NOTE - AirPort Extreme and AirPort Express can extend the range only of an AirPort Extreme or AirPort Express wireless network

Customer Reviews:

TOSLINK.......2007-06-09

One of the things most people don't know about (or don't care about, I suppose) is that this thing has an optical digital output on the mini headphone jack (at the tip). This means you can hook it up via TOSLINK to your D/A converter and use it in your audiophile setup. Very nice feature for that tiny minority who care about such things!

Freedom.......2007-06-08

A best tech buy. I am connected to the internet, my printer, the stereo from any where in the house.
No wires, convenience and freedom.
This product is the greatest! And and good value.

Not as versatile as you may think: .......2007-05-27

What the sales literature doesn't say:
1) if you want to send sound to your stereo: Beware! it only works with iTunes (NOT DVD player, iMovie, quicktime, garage band etc)
2) When they say it works as a bridge to extend the network, the don't mention that you have to set it up to EITHER extend the network OR run airtunes and drive a printer.
3) this is just a gripe, but you see the ethernet port in the photo, and you might hope to be able to plug in a computer that doesn't have the latest wireless built in, but no; it only take the signal in- not out to a computer :*(

aggravating beyond belief to setup.......2007-05-22

Once you finally get it working, it does a great job of broadcasting your itunes to your home stereo. But while I can get my linksys router working in less than 15 minutes, it takes hours to get this set up. So much for Apple ease of use

Versatile and reliable once installed.......2007-05-15

I have a multi-platform, WPA2-encrypted network on a Linksys WRT54GL router running the DD-WRT firmware, and this piece of hardware works great once installed properly.

Beware that the "wireless repeater" functionality that extends your wireless network was only intended for use with Airport Extreme, but... with a little googling you can find detailed instructions on how to set it up to extend a Linksys 54G network. It's just a bit more complicated than most would wish, but that's the price to pay for not getting the overpriced Airport Extreme base station.

If you're not really tech-savvy and just want to pipe your music to remote speakers, it works fine and the setup isn't really that complicated.

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