![]() Let me write a post explaining how to not waste time configuring an AirPort Express. I’ve wasted a bunch of time today trying to configure the Airport Express. Even now, my 802.11n wireless network seems to not really work well – it has a weak signal and any device seems to have a random chance of not connecting to it. Lots of networking stuff, from cards to wireless routers and stuff. Thus far, I’ve had a lot of random failures, like my 4-year old PowerMac G5 that one day suddenly failed to power on, a brand new external hard drive, bad RAM in an old computer, mice (lots of mice) and assorted networking equipment. Back in Waterloo, I was rumoured to have inherited a “curse” about hardware from a fellow graduate student (hello, Ben!) – the curse was that hardware would randomly fail inexplicably in your hands and that you’d spend many hours trying all kinds of configurations to no avail. Yet, for some reason, networking equipment and I simply do NOT get along. So really, it seemed like a win all around. ![]() Since I just moved, my computer is no longer able to connect to the speakers in the living room since it’s too far away. ![]() An added bonus is that it also had a 3.5mm stereo headphone jack/mini-TOSLink jack that would enable me to plug a set of powered speakers into. Second, it allows you to share an Internet connection over wireless, which effectively means that I can connect the Ethernet to it and then share the connection to my MacBook Air. First, it’s small enough to carry around with me on a trip. This would be a great way to solve my above problems. Lately, this problem has been compounded because I have a Macbook Air, but no Ethernet adapter.īecause I’m traveling again this weekend, I decided that I would purchase an Apple AirPort Express. Internet sharing on the Mac has never seemed to work quite the way I wanted it to. This was a bit of a nuisance when sharing rooms with people, or if I’m interested in trying to check something on my iPad. I travel somewhat frequently and often encounter hotels that provide a cable and no wireless connection.
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