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Functionality of an Airport Express... minus the price?
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I think the Airport Express is a steal at $99. If you ever find a device that has all of its functionality for less, do let us know. I won't be holding my breath.
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functionality, what function in particular are you referring to?
create wireless network - lots of things for less money
join wireless network - depends on what you want to do.
airtunes - Not as cleanly, and not directly from the itunes window, but there is airfoil which will let you send any audio from a mac or pc to mac, pc, linux, iphone, or ipod touch. Or the
TV, but that's not less $
create wireless network - lots of things for less money
join wireless network - depends on what you want to do.
airtunes - Not as cleanly, and not directly from the itunes window, but there is airfoil which will let you send any audio from a mac or pc to mac, pc, linux, iphone, or ipod touch. Or the
TV, but that's not less $airtunes - Not as cleanly, and not directly from the itunes window, but there is airfoil which will let you send any audio from a mac or pc to mac, pc, linux, iphone, or ipod touch. Or the
Yeah, I was considering airfoil. From what I understand, I have to purchase the program to for my macbook, but can install the companion app for free on basically any device? That's good, because I have a machine running ubuntu in my home theater setup that just runs boxee. I could install airfoil speakers on that and, because it's already networked, I could have a device that has the same (as far as airtunes goes) functionality as an airport express.
Thanks
P.S. geoffreak, congrats on your 500th post!
just bought one
we just bought last night at the apple store.
It works great so far!
internet surfing seems faster to us, instead of the 50 ft ethernet cable were using.
wifi on iphone works great, and right now i'm downloading my appletv update wirelessly. never used my appletv wirelessly, but seems to work great.
one warning if you get it. It worked great after initial install, but then stopped after downloading an airport utility update. To get working again I had to reset express while plugged in wall
we just bought last night at the apple store.
It works great so far!
internet surfing seems faster to us, instead of the 50 ft ethernet cable were using.
wifi on iphone works great, and right now i'm downloading my appletv update wirelessly. never used my appletv wirelessly, but seems to work great.
one warning if you get it. It worked great after initial install, but then stopped after downloading an airport utility update. To get working again I had to reset express while plugged in wall