#APPLE AIRPORT EXPRESS SETUP FOR PC FULL#
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To use the AE in my system, I bought a $40 accessory kit made by Monster Cable that includes a 3.5mm-to-TosLink adapter cable, a 3.5mm jack-to-twin-RCA adapter cable and an extension AC cable.įirst, it is important to note what the AE doesn't do. At first glance, it doesn't appear to have a digital output, but at the innermost end of the 3.5mm jack is an optical S/PDIF transmitter. For sound, the AE outputs analog audio on a 3.5mm stereo minijack. Though the AirPort Express includes a lot of computer functionality for $129, I'll refer you to the computer magazines and the Web for that information. I therefore dashed off a set of measurements. While I bought an Apple AirPort Express to set up an IEEE802.11g Wi-Fi network for my Apple PowerBook and the PCs in my lab, along with those of wife and children, I found it useful to be able to include the he-man rig in my listening room in that network. Indeed, while I found the AirPort Express's analog output somewhat disappointing sounding, I do feel that feeding my Levinson DAC with the hub's digital output sounds 'okay.' Quite good, in fact. This review, however, is intended to flesh out a cryptic comment made by Wes Phillips in April's ' As We See It': 'When Apple introduced its AirPort Express wireless multimedia link,' Wes wrote, 'it even included a digital port so that an audiophile-such as Stereophile's editor-could network his system, using the AE to feed his Mark Levinson No.30.6 outboard D/A converter.

#APPLE AIRPORT EXPRESS SETUP FOR PC FULL#

I simply select it, click “Add”, and it’s now a new printer I can select when printing from any Mac application.Usually, a Stereophile 'Follow-Up' follows up (duh!) a full review of the component in question. Start it, click “Add+” to add a new printer, and select “Bonjour” if it isn’t automatically selected. Now you can quit the Airport Admin Utility because you want to launch a different program, Printer Setup Utility. If your printer isn’t recognized, check out the help material from Apple to remedy the problem, but most likely it’ll be fine.Īlmost done, believe it or not. This time, choose View –> Summary and see if your printer is recognized: Once you’re online, go back into the Airport Admin Utility and select the Airport Express again. Probably, you’ll need to reselect it the first time if you’ve renamed the network, but that’s easily accomplished. Make all the changes you desire, then click on “Update” and let the device restart with its new configuration options.

#APPLE AIRPORT EXPRESS SETUP FOR PC PASSWORD#

Worth noting is that this is where I can change the administrative password (click on “Change password…”), change the broadcast name of the network (mine’s called “hardcopy” since it’s for the printer device) and add a password to the wireless network you’re creating (click “Change Wireless Security…”). I select it, enter the password (I strongly recommend you set an admin password so no-one else can monkey with your unit, btw!) and now I see this: Mine has the snazzy name “Base Station 0064c3”, as you can see. Start that and it should immediately see your device: You can check that by connecting to the Express network (which might be called something like “Apple Network 0c0037” or similar) and launching Airport Admin Utility. Hopefully your Airport Express will display the cheery green light meaning all is well, and have identified the type of printer you’ve hooked up.

Then plug in your printer via the USB connection, then cycle power on your printer after you’ve plugged it into the Airport Express.

While it should theoretically be possible to have the device just serve up your printer on its own wireless network, I found that the Airport Express was cranky about starting up on a power cycle without a live Ethernet plug. The first step you’ll need to do is make sure that your printer and Airport Express are being plugged in reasonably close to your Ethernet network hub or router. What I ended up doing was reseting the Airport Express three or four times (which was a pain! Fortunately, it’s documented here) and fiddling with various settings until I got everything to work properly. Your timing is excellent: I just recently set up one of these networks myself and found it rather tricky, truth be told.

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