Cool

http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/

 

Very neat idea.

-- Ian

 

But will it be stable? Heard of too many problems with other wifi devices to be particularly confident in them.

 

Paul, I've used MAC wireless for over 2 years now and I've never had any issues with it.
IMO it's one of the most stable Wi_Fi systems going.

 

Paul you need to get yourself a mac with WIFI and Fire Fox, you sound like a pessimistic neon lit PC owner.

 

What I did want to know but couldn't work out is do you need one of these for each thing you wat to connect or will it do multiple things?

Also can someone tell me how it works?!? I.E. there appears to be three ports, network port, firewire and one other?


How would I get wireless music to my hifi?

 

It's an audio-out port

 

Garyi, the third port is a dual function Mini-Jack/Optical out.

 

Very cool - a nice and compact SqueezeBox (or whatever they're called) alternative.

Oh yes, Wi-Fi, stable as you like. Only probs I've had are that the range they work over is very much less than advertised unless you're using them in field or a warehouse flat with no walls

Michael.

 

I have no problem with range. My flat is all concrete, and I know for a fact the woman upstairs has just installed wireless (she hasn't secured it either, daft bint )

No problems with stability either, in the 2 or so years I've used wi-fi.

-- Ian

 

Am I the only person here who thinks this is boring and pointless ... not cool. In other words a nifty bit of technology that in practice no more than 0.01% of the sane population will actually want or use, even if they could understand it?

 

i had a quick look at the link and couldn't see the point either

 

i just found this today too.. looks interesting.

looks to be aimed more at laptop users than anyone else, i know i'd love this if i had gone for a powerbook rather than the G5.

think of the multi-room possibilities... coupled with a Remote Wonder it could be pretty interesting: get out of bed, stumble over to the iBook, fire up iTunes, select the living room hifi, fire up a playlist/album then wander through with the remote

these tiny £100 boxes certainly beat setting up a networked pc to go with every hifi in the house.


i wonder how they handle having more than one system try to access them... whether they lock to the first signal or they play everything

 

Im only 32, but I felt old cos I couldnt understand it !

Im shit with computers though.

Does it mean I could download MP3's onto my PC, and then send it to this box which is attached to my hifi and plays said MP3's?

A bit like a looong interconnect?

nb isnt 56k speed too slow to transmit musical data as its playing?

Chris

 

chris,
it's not 56k it's 56mbps or about 6 meg a second (broadband is about 512 kps on average)

you're correct in your assesment of it as a long interconnect (roughly).

it seems a bit jack of all trades to me in that it's not specificly for music but it is undeniably pretty cool.

cheers


julian

 

But don't you have to go back to the room with the computer in it to select the room you want to listen in? It seems to defeat half the point of multi-room sound. Or can you send it to all of them and then just turn on the Hi-Fi in the room you want to listen in?

 

im my mind, that's why it's more geared towards laptop users. you can have truely wireless by running on battery, and even when that runs dry you only need the power cable. and being able to have one setup in the bedroom & one in the living room, bonus.

not really much good to desktop users though, you're right there.


from the blurb i've read, you can only select one profile at a time.