Apple AirPort Express with Air Tunes M9470LL/A [OLD VERSION] by Apple Computer
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Digital camera reviews of Apple AirPort Express with Air Tunes M9470LL/A [OLD VERSION]
Digital camera Review: A lot of music, a little space
Summary: 4 Stars
I have tried so many products meant to stream music from my computer to my receiver, that I almost gave up. In fact I DID give up, and just hard-wired my iPod directly to it. The problem with using the iPod directly (before the Airport Express) was the music fading/blending. iTunes will blend the music together giving a seamless "radio-like" experience, and additionally, you have Party Shuffle and immediate access. The Airport Express delivers.
My initial set-up was simple. Then I tried to take it to work. Nothing. Plugged it back in at home, worked fine. When I moved to a new apartment, it wouldn't work. To get it to work after multiple resets and struggles, I moved the Airport to an empty outlet, and tried it; worked like a charm, although I have no idea why. After all the setup was complete, I could put it back into a crowded outlet with no complications. With Apple's name on the product, I would have expected more, but the Airport still functions flawlessly after the tumultuous beginnings.
If you want to stream music, use this. Buy this. Love it. Your laptop and your ears will thank you. Additionally, if you have two stereo systems in your home and want to stream different music to each of them, get two Airports, and use two different user accounts in Windows. Custom, baby, custom.
Digital camera Review: A simple device that just works
Summary: 5 Stars
I use it just to stream music to my stereo, 3 rooms away. The device works flawlessly, the only hiccup being that the wizard would not configure it and I had to go into the setup software and set it up - and how to do this was quite obvious. After that, it works perfectly, no hiccups, it simply appeared at the bottom of the Itunes screen. My girlfriend is delighted!
Highly recommended.
Digital camera Review: AE with ITunes
Summary: 3 Stars
Got this to stream music from ITunes on Labtop to remote speakers of stereo. Just have to say that set up was easy. Set back was that after it was installed I found out that the connection is skipping since upgrade to ITunes 8. Problem is with ITunes and the company does not provide any support for this issue. With music dropping in and out this set up is not working any longer.Digital camera Review: AWESOME!!!! (Windows User)
Summary: 5 Stars
I was looking for a wireless connection to my Home Theater receiver with digital output. This product is excellent. The directions for installing on Windows are not the best, but I still give it 5 stars because this product is really good. It can act as a router, providing wireless access to a wired network or internet connection, but can also act as a host on an existing network.
TIP: I couldn't restore factory settings (I bought an open box item) unless I plugged the unit WHILE pushing the reset button and keeping it pushed for 5 seconds. The manual only says push it for 5 secs, but didn't work for me.
ANOTHER TIP: Windows users, as the prev. review explained, configure the unit by connecting to with a cable, then go wireless.
Digital camera Review: After 8 hours of complications, the real fix was simple...
Summary: 4 Stars
Let me start by saying that this is a fascinating product, and once you get it working the ability to stream itunes into any room will work flawlessly. You will be very pleased.
Now for the aggravation. I have a Windows desktop running XP plugged directly into an AT&T wireless router, and the router is plugged directly into my cable modem. I followed the directions provided by Apple and could NEVER get the Airport Express to find my wireless network. I read every forum article I could find that had me changing DNS or MAC addresses, setting up clients and servers and WDS things. I do know a little about computers, but this was approaching my limits. Nothing worked. If you buy this item and follow all directions and it still does not work, save yourself endless hours of aggravation by trying the following:
1) Perform a hard reset by unplugging the AX from AC, waiting 20 or so seconds, and then plugging it back in while depressing the recessed reset button for 10 or so seconds.
2) Connect your AX to your router via ethernet cable. After 20 or 30 seconds the light on the AX should turn green.
3) Start the airport admin utility program on a computer that you know works through the router. You should see that AX show up on the AX admin utility main page, along with its firmware version number. Go to apple.com/support and make sure that you have the most up to date firmware. If you do not, download the newest firmware for the AX and install it. While you are at it, make sure that your router has the most up to date firmware installed on it. If you had to install new firmware, do another hard reset for good measure.
4) From the airport admin utilities program (do not use the assistant!), select your new AX from the main screen, with your AX plugged in to the router via ethernet. Here is where I kept having problems, but as you will hopefully see, the answer is SIMPLE. Once you have selected the AX, go only to the "AIRPORT" tab. In the section marked IDENTITY, name your AX something that will not conflict with anything else on your network. Go down to AIRPORT NETWORK and select "JOIN EXISTING..." and then under that type the exact name of your wireless network (which will show up nowhere), and it is case sensitive. If you have security on your wireless network, click SECURITY and enter in the correct key(s), which you can get from your router's home page. Then click on the MUSIC tab at the top of the screen, and name your Itunes speaker system. Click UPDATE.
Your AX will restart itself, and with any luck its green light will turn solid. Magically, when you disconnect the ethernet cable it will STAY SOLID :-) :-) :-) And when you unplug the AX from the AC power to move it to its new location, the green light will once again show after several seconds of being plugged into AC.
The bottom line is that this is a great product and troubleshooting it on a Windows XP network was much much easier than I was led to believe. Do not use the "assistant", and only only only mess with the AIRPORT and MUSIC tabs. I haven't tried the print server thing yet, but eventually will.