My Airport Express Arrived...
Today Fedex arrived with my Airport Express, after it left Taiwan on Monday. I'm surprised that the Airport Express is not shipped from within the USA.
Well, I only had thirty minutes before I had to get ready to leave the house, but I did a lot in that thirty minutes. First, I got the wireless network running with all my settings. That didn't surprise, for that is always pretty easy with wireless routers. However, I also got the printing to work PERFECTLY from my Mac & PC. Yay! I've been trying to have an easy way to print from both my Mac & my PCs. It truly works great! Thank you Apple!
I tested out AirTunes tonight. It works great, but I can't truly use Airtunes until I get a second Airport Express for the living room. Overall, the Airport Express surprised me. It is amazing that you get so much for only $120. The benefits of a wireless router, air tunes, and printing to your USB printer from anywhere in the house. Plus, it is so tiny. This product really blows me away. I only hope that the public realizes how powerful it is.
Well, I only had thirty minutes before I had to get ready to leave the house, but I did a lot in that thirty minutes. First, I got the wireless network running with all my settings. That didn't surprise, for that is always pretty easy with wireless routers. However, I also got the printing to work PERFECTLY from my Mac & PC. Yay! I've been trying to have an easy way to print from both my Mac & my PCs. It truly works great! Thank you Apple!
I tested out AirTunes tonight. It works great, but I can't truly use Airtunes until I get a second Airport Express for the living room. Overall, the Airport Express surprised me. It is amazing that you get so much for only $120. The benefits of a wireless router, air tunes, and printing to your USB printer from anywhere in the house. Plus, it is so tiny. This product really blows me away. I only hope that the public realizes how powerful it is.
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I received mine on Monday and I have to echo most of what you said, the wireless networking and printing were a breeze to setup, as was the AT network.
I love using AirTunes!! I have the AE hooked into my Sony receiver w/ Aperion Audio speakers. (Best audio setup a poor schlub like me can afford.) The only disappointing issue so far has been the optical connection to my receiver. When one track ends and the next one starts, about 1-2 seconds of the beginning of the song is dropped. I found on Apple's discussion forums that the optical signal drops out between tracks and it takes the receiver a second or so to sync back up to it when the next song/optical signal starts. Kind of a bummer as I bought the Monster Cable kit mainly for the optical cable (and the longer power cable.) Not really Apple's fault but I'm hoping they will figure out a way to resolve this. I switched to the RCA cable and AT works perfectly.
All in all, I'm very impressed with it. Great feature set for the price all in a box the size of a deck of cards. 8)