Product Description

Easily create a wireless network at home. Enjoy your iTunes music library in virtually any room of your house. Share a USB printer without obtrusive cables. And do it all with the latest wireless technology. Share your wireless network with up to 10 users, print documents, photos and more from any room in the house to one central printer and Play iTunes music through your stereo or powered speakers using AirTunes.
Features:

Up to 5x the performance 2x the range: AirPort Express now uses next-generation 802.11n wireless technology1 to deliver up to five times the performance and up to twice the range of 802.11g wireless networks.
Easy wireless networking: The easy-to-use AirPort Utility — available for both Mac OS X and Windows — guides you through the setup process step by step. Use AirPort Express to create a new wireless network3 or to extend the range of your existing AirPort-based network.
Print without wires: Print documents photos and more from any room in the house to one central USB printer.
Really rock the house: Play the music from your computer''s iTunes library through a set of speakers or stereo in just about any room in your home — wirelessly.
Take it with you: Lightweight and compact AirPort Express is built for mobility so you can create an instant wireless network at your hotel job site or wherever you need one.
Works with Apple TV iPhone and more: AirPort Express works flawlessly with Apple TV iPhone iPod touch and all your other Wi-Fi devices that use the 802.11a/b/g/n wireless standards.

Technical Specifications:

Manufacturer's Part Number: MB321B/A.
Product Description: Apple AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n and AirTunes - radio access point.
Device Type: Radio access po

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1103 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Apple
• Model: MB321B/A
• Released on: 2008-03-25
• Platform: Windows Vista
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .41 pounds

Features

• AirPort Express Base Station 802.11n &
• AirPort Express Base Station 802.11n & AirTunes

Manufacturer's Description
Easily create a wireless network at home. Enjoy your iTunes music library in virtually any room of your house. Share a USB printer without obtrusive cables. And do it all with the latest wireless technology.

Customer Reviews

No complaints
This is a clever multifunctional device. It can be used to extend your existing 'n' network, it can be connected via a USB port to allow wireless printing from all your computers around the house, and it can stream music from i-tunes when connected to powered speakers.

Unlike other reviewers, I had no problems setting this up, or updating the hardware. In my installation it's wirelessly linked to an Apple Time Capsule which is used the the 'n' base station - linked by cable to a router. The AP Express is by my printer and provides access to network printing. It's also linked to a stereo system and will play i-tunes tracks from any computer on my normal stereo.

If you travel this an excellent piece of kit. If your hotel has broadband but no wireless network you can easily take the AP Express with you and set up a network. I do this a lot and because the AP Express is so small it's not a problem taking it.

The downside - well like at Apple wireless solutions there's no modem built in so you need two boxes rather than one. With the Express I can forgive this - it is just so small. I'm feel more strongly that Time Capsule and AirPort Extreme should feature in built modems.

At £65 this device is good value and getting it to work - in the fairly complex way I've set it up - was easy.

No setup probs with vista
Just got one and had no probs setting it up with vista. Hardwired it with ethernet cable first to do the set up then unplugged the cable. Just using it for airtunes and it sounds great. Very impressed, might well get another to add sound to another room too. Have tried it in my attic room and it found the network and started streaming within 60 seconds!!!

Real time audio playback
What I am impressed with is that the audio playback does not have any kind of delay over the network. You can verify this as is possible to play itunes through multiple speakers, so if you have the computer speakers and airport express both sending out sound, the output is perfectly in sync. I'm surprised since most digital equipment tends to have some inherent delay, so well done Apple!

If you've bought yours second hand like I did, make sure you update the firmware (7.4.1 at time of writing) as I did have a few problems when it was on 7.3.2. Also you may want to use the Manual setup option to set the IP address as it tried to grab the same IP my PC was using, so caused a conflict on the network.

One other thing, if you plan having this in the kitchen next to the microwave, when the microwave is on it will interrupt the signal enough to lose connectivity. So if you can place it a good distance away.