As usual Apple have made setting this base station up as easy as can be. Although it does take a while to boot up and again when it reboots having adjusted the settings.
The downside is when printing to a printer connected to the base station by USB it can get painfully slow.
My Canon Pixma iP4850 when connected to my MBP zips along when printing an A4 colour print. Do the same via the Airport Express Base Station and the first few passes of the print head are much like the speed when connected by direct USB. Then it slows down with a pause after each traverse of the print head with the occasionally flurry of continuous print head movement before going back to traverse then pause, traverse and pause. So printing an A4 colour print becomes a bit of a chore.
Googling the problem it looks like this is caused by making what is essentially a USB driver run over a wireless connection and in some cases you get this slow down.
Text printing seems to be OK but for colour prints I think I will connect directly to the printer by USB cable.
Oh well you live and learn!

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Got my airport express up and running in 10 minutes. Im no expert, but the setting up was really easy. 1. install Airport utiliy (cd in package) 2. connect all wires (in my case: fiber wire and printer). 3. Plug in the Airport express and the light will glow (no on/off button). 4. Open the airport software downloaded (see 1, if you can't find the destination simply use spotlight search function i apple menubar, search for "airport").
Now you will be guided through the setup. For Danish users - don't give your network a name with the DK letters æ,ø,å, this will mean trouble if you later want to use your playstation3 wireless on your airport network. The range of the airpot express is good covers all 140 m2 in my home with high connection rate. Next month ill be buying another airport express for my speakers - AirTunes gonna rock my roof off :o)

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The product might be good but i will never know. Spent 3 hours trying to set it up using our desk top. The directions are not non-computer tech type person friendly. Twice, somehow, i deleted the wireless router we had setup. Thank God for backup spots. I called tech support and that got me nowhere. Something they didnt tell me either was that if you dont have the correct windows program or macbook its will not work. I found that out after opening it. I took it back to the mac store i bought it from and they charged me a restocking fee because it falls under "computer". All around i lost $10, 1/4 tank of gas and all i got was a UUUUGE headache.best advice for someone wanting this unless u have a macbook thats up to date dont buy it.

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I am using the router my phone company gave me for my dsl. I then have a base station airport and I have a express. it seems to work ok in my house. When I go to my garage it works outside the garage ,but I have no signal inside my garage. My garage is a normal wood framed stucco building. I have even tried to get my computer to recognize my airport base (which it doesnt show up in my network) and hook the airport express to the same base to extend the range. very disappointed with the range and way it doesnt setup

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the must have mac accessories...listening to the online radio from ipad2 will become high-end sound quality through the stereoset...it is amazing...also..we can share printer WIRELESSLY!!!...with this airport express...ipad2 will become more functional gadget ever...

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I take it to hotel rooms, connect the network cable and connect all my devices without being charged for each device.

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I bought the Airport Express in hopes to extend the signal of my existing wireless network in a large house. I started using it a few days ago and my internet bars went from 1 and always cutting out to full bars instantly after installing it using Airport Utility and simply plugging it in to a power outlet. I didn't even have to run an ethernet cable to it! Also my laptop connects to my wireless network instantly when I open my laptop, when before it would take 3-5 minutes to get 1 bar of service. Now I can stream movies on my apple tv without being disconnected. This has truly been the perfect solution to years of bad internet service on the second floor of the house.

Pros:
•Easy to set up using Airport Utility
•Affordable
•No cables required
•It WORKS

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I haven't been happy with the connectivity. When streaming music to the speakers connected to this thing, it stops playing every other song for about 10 seconds. If I try to stream from my computer it does the same thing.
Also, I've got a wireless speaker that's connected to an airport express. And running the two wireless signals at once is a disaster. The wireless speaker works fine on it's own, but there seems to be a problem with connectivity while running the two at the same time.

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I have 3 Airport Express. I've used them to create a wireless network from my existing house wide ethernet network. So, each Express is directly connected to my ethernet network (I'm not trying to extend an existing wireless network). Two of them are also tied into audio/video systems for iTunes playback and one is used to drive a printer. It was a little tricky to set up (it probably took an hour for the initial set up and a couple hours over a couple of days to tweak it). The system has worked flawlessly for 3 years.

I only gave it 4 stars since my MBP's won't switch automatically if I move to a new location and there is an Express with a stronger signal. It only switches when the old signal is dropped. But that's really a MBP/OSX issue.

One of the best things is that I can take an Express on the road. Hook it up to the hotel's ethernet network and create my own private network. It tends to be much faster than the hotel wireless. It also adds extra security.

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OMGOSH. I love it. Super easy and when I lose electricity, no problem. My printer prints wirelessly from computer and iPad. Don't know why o
I waited so long and wasted money on other routers -- not to mention all the phone calls to others countries trying to get set back up.
I lllooovvveee it.

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