Apple Airport Express MB321LL/A [NEWEST VERSION] by Apple Computer
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Digital camera reviews of Apple Airport Express MB321LL/A [NEWEST VERSION]
Digital camera Review: Airport Express working great
Summary: 5 Stars
this product worked well ever since plugging it in and having it configered. No more internet connection disruptions as I used to have with a Netgear device before. Speed is excellent, reliability sofar also excellent. Very glad I made the switch. Getting signal from an Airport Extreme base station.Digital camera Review: Airport Express works as advertised
Summary: 5 Stars
I ordered this two months ago and it works very well. I advise using the digital optical output as opposed to the regular analog output (buy the right cable) as the sound is much better. I did an "A B" test and couldn't discern any difference between playing my orignal CD's and piping the ALE files from iTunes through my stereo. I use the iPod remote software as the interface to select songs to play - a true couch potato's paradise!Digital camera Review: Airport express is a nice buy
Summary: 4 Stars
Too bad i can't connect my pc directly to the unit, an extra network port would have been nice.Digital camera Review: Airport works
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought the airport partly so I could stream music to my home stereo, partly to extend my N network.
It works fine. I've never had a problem with it. I've surfed the net while streaming music to the stereo, it just works.
The only shortcoming is it does not have 5ghz operation.
My machine is a 2ghz Pentium5 laptop... 2004 vintage, with wireless N USB. It connects at 270mbps.
Digital camera Review: Airtunes is Awesome and Playback is Gapless
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this just for the Airtunes feature to stream music from the computer in one room to my stereo in the living room. It works great and was easy to set up. In case anyone is wondering, playback is gapless (no pause in between tracks) so no worries when firing up a multi-track mix.
For Vista (and presumably any other version of windows) you have to connect the AE via Ethernet cable to your router when first setting up, which the directions fail to tell you. After wasting some time trying to figure it out, I followed the first 5 steps of S. Monroe's instructions (currently rated most helpful review) and then followed the setup wizard from there on out (thanks S. Monroe!). Everything worked fine after that.
Also, note that it doesn't come with any cables whatsoever. If your receiver has an optical input, I recommend a toslink to mini toslink adapter such as this one: 6ft Toslink to Mini Toslink Cable. That will give you much better sound quality than the standard mini to RCA connection and it's pretty cheap.
One issue that I haven't figured out how to resolve is that you can't play music through your computer speakers and stream it to the AE at the same time. Well, you can, but because the AE is wireless there is a slight delay between the stereo playback (wirelessly through the AE) and the computer speaker playback (direct wiring to your sound card) and it's really un-listenable due to the echo effect. If I figure out a way around this, I will update my review (I'm hoping you can add a delay to the wired signal in millisecond increments via the AE software and I just haven't found that option yet).
Bottom line: the AE works great for streaming music and set-up is a breeze for PCs if you follow S. Monroe's instructions instead of the instructions that came with the product.
Cheers