Apple AirPort Express Base Station
• $99.00
• Apple
It's easy to understand why this mundane piece of networking hardware was easily overlooked after the announcement of those sexy new Retina Display MacBook Pros. But Apple's latest AirPort Express aligns with the Mac Mini and the Apple TV, a form factor which almost entirely eliminates the need to disguise or hide your device. This new version now broadcasts in both the 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz frequency bands; in theory, this should offer faster speeds with less interference from home appliances and phones. You can still plug in a USB printer like before, connect to your stereo via analog/optical audio jack, and now there's an Ethernet WAN port for wired connections, inching closer to the Airport Extreme Base Station in features. But most importantly, the puck size wireless router just works, probably the easiest router on the market for Mac users.
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What does this mean?
"...inching closer to the Airport Extreme Base Station in features."
Funstraw, this is the Airport Extreme: http://www.apple.com/airportextreme/
eh, maybe. Something sounds wrong, can't place it. Maybe it's a run-on sentence or the comparison to the airport extreme is incorrect.
The express model already had all the features that GH mentioned. It has USB, audio jack and a WAN port. The WAN port could be used as either a WAN or LAN port. It does now have an extra port specifically separating the two as WAN or LAN.
Neither here nor there. No biggie.
Thanks for pointing out the LAN port, I had not noticed this product was updated. I wanted to buy this one for my parents (who are not computer smart) for a while as the d-link/linksys ones at the same price points I find needs resetting a lot. That seems easy enough but not for my parents who call me every time their internet stops working. But my parents have a desktop that needs a wired connection and I didn't want to spend nearly twice as much for the extreme or another $50 on a wireless adaptor.