Hey Everyone,
I had a few questions regarding airport express that I hope you someone could help me with. I currently, have the older wall plug version of the airport express. I have comcast as my ISP and let me say the wireless it pretty shoty. It works sometime and other not at all. I know its not my current airport express that is the issue. So i was debating setting up an external hard drive over my wireless network. I put all my media (tv shows, movies) on my desktop on my 15" macbook pro and use Plex. The only problem with that is when the computer goes to sleep the Plex servers dont work so you have to constantly wake the computer up. So my thought was to take my currently external hard drive that I use for my time machine backups and set up a wireless connection directly into my older airport express.
My first questions is can I use my external hard drive I use for time machine ? or should I buy a new one strictly for media? My other question is I know the new aiport express looks like an apple tv and adds 5ghz support for newer devices. So my question do you think getting the new airport express would help my incinsistant wifi or speed it up in any way? Then I could use my current airport express as a wifi extender for a different part of the apartment. Or is this me just throwing money away for stuff I already have ?
I had a few questions regarding airport express that I hope you someone could help me with. I currently, have the older wall plug version of the airport express. I have comcast as my ISP and let me say the wireless it pretty shoty. It works sometime and other not at all. I know its not my current airport express that is the issue. So i was debating setting up an external hard drive over my wireless network. I put all my media (tv shows, movies) on my desktop on my 15" macbook pro and use Plex. The only problem with that is when the computer goes to sleep the Plex servers dont work so you have to constantly wake the computer up. So my thought was to take my currently external hard drive that I use for my time machine backups and set up a wireless connection directly into my older airport express.
My first questions is can I use my external hard drive I use for time machine ? or should I buy a new one strictly for media? My other question is I know the new aiport express looks like an apple tv and adds 5ghz support for newer devices. So my question do you think getting the new airport express would help my incinsistant wifi or speed it up in any way? Then I could use my current airport express as a wifi extender for a different part of the apartment. Or is this me just throwing money away for stuff I already have ?