PreviousMonday 14 March 2005, 1:05 PM
Don't believe Apple's hype
I bought an Apple Airport Express (direct from Apple) so that I could connect it to my existing Wi-Fi network and use it to stream music from a Media Center PC to my study.
Unfortunately, Apple mis-advertise the Airport Express and you can't use it as a wireless client with your existing Wi-Fi network unless it's an Apple network based on an Express or Extreme base station. Well, technically you can but it's not supported or documented and Apple's tech support refused to help. They also refused to take the product back unless I paid a £30 shipping charge (for a £100 product!).
Yesterday I got the Airport to work as I had intended. It took about 9 hours effort visiting forums, Googling around and fiddling with my Netgear router. To get the Airport to work I had to disable wireless security, and then it took over 5 minutes to play the first track from Missy Higgins' albumn -- which is only 3 minutes long -- because the Airport kept dropping the signal.
Since Apple won't take back their lousy product, it's going on eBay. Caveat Emptor!
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