Falsehood of Airport Express | August 8th, 2008
Ok, so I just bought Airport Express yesterday and I have to say this is by far one of the worst Apple products that I got. Seriously, my NETGEAR router from 3 years ago was 100 times easier to set up than this.
Basically Airport Utility can not search for my Airport Express whenever it scans for devices. I tried on my iMac, MacBook and PowerBook G4. I tried reseting the device, rewiring the cables, none works. Null. About every 10 reviewers on the apple store site for this product seems to be facing the same problem as well. People who had this problem had their Airport Express exchanged but they are still facing the same issue so it is not a hardware defect. These people also got help from Apple care support and after couple hours of configuring it still doesn’t work. Apple doesn’t even have a solution for this problem. Some guy came up with a conclusion that it just does not work!
Apparently the best solution by far is to just use your Airport Express as a paper weight. It just seems to me like Apple is releasing broken products just because they can and people will still buy them. I mean, if you use iTunes and need remote speakers, there really are no alternatives.