For what it does $70 on the apple website doesn't seem bad, but I realized that the product is about 2 years old. Is apple going to make a new (better) one? Should I buy the old model off of ebay/amazon.com? If I could get it for only $50 that would be sweet, but the more I look, the more it seems that it's just the same to get it from the Apple website. Thoughts?
I would be using it as a router, possibly for wireless printing, and definitely for the wireless music hookup. Anyone have experience with it as a router? Music network? Printing?
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I am looking into a refurbed Apple Airport Express.
I've got the dualband 5/2.4ghz N, run a strictly gigabit network through it. It takes a while to get used to it's configuration, as it's through an app and not a web-based ui like 99.9% of other routers.. which is kinda crappy, kinda cool as the app is nicely laid out and works well, however you can't configure it from linux or say, an iPad.
I host a 6tb solaris server/box thing and seems to handle heavy traffic very well. Also the printing is plain awesome, it's how printing should be, you plug in any usb printer, and your mac (PC too, I think) just sees it and grabs the appropriate driver and such, next to no setup.
I host a 6tb solaris server/box thing and seems to handle heavy traffic very well. Also the printing is plain awesome, it's how printing should be, you plug in any usb printer, and your mac (PC too, I think) just sees it and grabs the appropriate driver and such, next to no setup.
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I bought the refurb airport from apple's site. Its the newest version and I have to say that its the best router I've ever used. No more dropped connections like with my previous linksys one.
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I've been able to find them on craigslist (the n model) for around $40-50.
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