At WWDC 2012, this week, Apple announced an update of its little Wi-Fi router, the AirPort Express Base Station.
The new model is no longer a wall wart design, instead taking on the square, low-profile look of
Apple's Extreme Base Station and Time Capsule. With
the redesign, it has both 10/100 Ethernet LAN and WAN
jacks and one audio jack to connect to
speakers The audio jack works with
standard analog minijack cables or optical minijacks, for an all-digital
connection. You can use any iOS device (iPad, iPhone, iPod
Touch) or an iTunes-equipped computer on the AirPort's network to stream
music to that device using Apple's AirPlay feature. The big upgrade this time around is dual-band 802.11n - it runs 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless frequencies
simultaneously, so it'll automatically connect to the one that will give you the fastest
connection. Otherwise pretty much the same handy little device.
No comments:
Post a Comment