Apple Airport Express
Now with blazing 802.11n, the affordable AirPort Express is powerful enough to run a home Wi-Fi network, yet small enough to take on the road. Share your wireless network with up to 10 users, print documents, photos, and more from any room in the house to one central printer, play iTunes music through your stereo or powered speakers using AirTunes, and more.
Apple Airport Express Accessories
 Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station (Gigabit) MB053LL/A
Griffin 1092-XPRSD AirBase/Desktop Stand for Airport Express
Apple MacBook MB403LL/A 13.3" Laptop (2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive) White
Apple Mighty Mouse Wireless Kit
Apple Time Capsule MB276LL/A 802.11n 500 GB Network Backup Hard Drive
Apple Time Capsule MB277LL/A 802.11n 1 TB Network Backup Hard Drive
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition
Apple Wireless Keyboard Kit
VMware Fusion
Apple TV with 160GB Hard Drive - MB189LL/A
Apple Airport Express Reviews
I was looking to extend our wireless network (w/Time Machine as the base). The Airport Express shows up on my iPhone (using the free Remote application from Apple), and as a destination option from iTunes itself. Good luck to Dell in theirs to play catch-up. It took less than 10 minutes to extend my network AND get music (and Podcats) playing perfectly on our Onkyo receiver. I can even control the volume from the iPhone or iTunes. If I add another one of these puppies, I can have music in multiple rooms. As part of doing that, I discovered that this little unit can actually stream music to my nearby stereo, using my iPhone (or Macbook Pro) as the remote control. Good to see that Apple really does put thought into their products.
Because the Mac is my main 'puter, the Vista PC connection problem is no big deal; besides, what else is new with Windoze. Like so much of what goes with a Mac it works well.like it's supposed to, and it was a breeze to install. Having read some of the negative comments about this device, I was a bit doubtful of it but, went ahead and bought one regardless. The only bump in the road was connecting a Vista based PC which, through some electronic hiccup, only connects to the LAN occasionally. The Airport Express is a good investment and one that I'm happy I made.
Outside of the listed above reasons.it's a great product and works as stated. I found this limiting so i download AirFoil which unleashes the Airport Express and lets you source music from any type of source (System, Application, Etc). Windows I'm not sure.I'm a mac user. I bought this product because I hated attaching additional cables to my laptop to play music. However, as you will easily notice, it's only for itunes.
I was a little disappointed that at the end of the day, despite Apple's attempt to sell people on the ease of use of its products, this device was no easier to install and configure than the LinkSys. I was surprised that the call had to be escalated to 2d level support for a "simple" installation. It took about 1 1/2 on the phone with Apple at 6:00 AM. (Apple phone support is 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM Monday through Friday). It works fine now that it is working. Even using a G card in my Lenovo laptop I get a much stronger signal than I got with the old LinkSys WRT54G. The internet on the laptop seems much faster.
This thing is good but it does not reach that far,I have a one bed room apt, and if I plug it on one side it will not reach into my bed room. I have to put it in the middle of my apt for it to reach,it is fast and everything,but if you can afford the bigger version the Extreme, than get it because it will actually reach places further than 50 feet.
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