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Apple Updates Airport Express (802.11n)
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It's a WIFI extender but I think you'll need to plug your ethernet to this thing. Next best thing to having a true wireless solution.
How much taxes do you pay? you must keep in mind the US prices are without taxes.
WRONG. It's a true wireless router...
It's only limited in the number of users, not having a built-in gigabit ethernet switch and no HD support. But seriously, do you have > 10 people in your home network?
You can plug in your cable/dsl modem directly into this thing then? If so that would be fantastic.
I'm also lost on your calculations earlier. The $99 US price should be no more than $107 (SA) but Apple will not come to parity with Australia, let alone the EU. Make a Canadian or US pen pal and may be he or she can buy you one
Yes, but that is no limitation at all as 802.11n is not capable of higher speeds. It would not make any sense at all to put a gigabit ethernet port in there...
You can plug an Xbox or PS2 into the network port and use it as a wireless adapter. I currently use the original Airport Express to plug into a small 5 port switch that I plug my Xbox360, PS3, and Apple TV into. It works great. I don't see why you couldn't plug a NAS into it as well.
Yes you can
You can also use it in bridging mode to connect Wireless users to your LAN. That's what I use at home.
I'm also lost on your calculations earlier. The $99 US price should be no more than $107 (SA) but Apple will not come to parity with Australia, let alone the EU. Make a Canadian or US pen pal and may be he or she can buy you one
I was just ticking away on my currency and calculator widgets
Bummer the US is always the cheapest and you have to pay premium prices in other countries. However.... A friend of mine is moving over to Boston for a year in July; I already asked him to send over an iPhone. He can expect other orders from me I use it in my student room, for wifi, printing and iTunes. That way I can use my macbook anywhere in my room (on my bed etc) and still be able to print and have a good audio setup through big speakers instead of the tiny macbook ones.
At home I have another one in my kitchen which is only used for iTunes, as a replacement for a radio.
That is not 100% accurate.
Yes, you are correct that it will not make your internet speeds any faster.
But, if you are using this to extend the wireless network to a few wired computers, the gigabit switch will allow the connected computers to do everything else at gigabit speeds.
Again, internet will only be as fast as the wireless network allows. But file transfer and other things between all the computers connected to the gigabit switch will be at gigabit speeds.
This is assuming that the computers are connected with a CAT5e (or greater) cable and have a gigabit network card.
Yeah, you are indeed right. That might be a limitation. Or a reason to get an Aiport Extreme instead. However, the only reason I did not get an Airport Extreme or a Time Capsule was the fact that it was lacking AirTunes. Weird that a more high end device does not contain the feature of a low end device...
What's the difference between the airport express and the airport extreme now that they both go to "n" speeds?
You could plug in a gigabit switch into the 100Mb port, and this would still work. Your wired computers would talk at gigabit speeds amongst themselves, and at 100Mb speeds (Max - not likely to actually be this fast) over the wireless network.
it's great that they updated it. but it would be even better if the wireless base stations would work with time Machine by adding an external usb 2.0 hard drive.
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awesome. Too bad I bought an extreme a few months ago though
awesome. Too bad I bought an extreme a few months ago though
The European price is really outrageous... the dollar keeps falling yet apple keeps holding on to the euro-dollar parity...
Airport express: 99 = 154$
Luckily I'm going to the US soon, I'll get a lot of my travel expenses back just by buying some apple items in the US instead of here...
Airport express: 99 = 154$
Luckily I'm going to the US soon, I'll get a lot of my travel expenses back just by buying some apple items in the US instead of here...
Student price
In other news, the price for students went up from $89 (?) to $99 for hte new model. You don't even get a discount. What's the point in me going to college if I don't get discounts? >_<
In other news, the price for students went up from $89 (?) to $99 for hte new model. You don't even get a discount. What's the point in me going to college if I don't get discounts? >_<
Lack of gigabit is lame but as with the AEBS, I suspect this will be added in about 6-8 months time. I regularly get 240+mbps on my AEBS so if you are using the AE to connect two or more computers together, this will cause slowdowns. No diff for internet access, of course.
Another new feature: IPv6
The new AirPort Express (802.11n) model does have IPv6 capability.
The old AirPort Express (802.11g) model is not capable of IPv6 configuration even though a software upgrade could have provided the feature.
The new AirPort Express (802.11n) model does have IPv6 capability.
The old AirPort Express (802.11g) model is not capable of IPv6 configuration even though a software upgrade could have provided the feature.
