My apple: In praise of Airport Express

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I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, the Airport Express is one of the best products Apple has ever produced, period.

We’ve just traveled to Atlanta for about a week to see family and friends and we’re staying at a Crowne Plaza hotel. As far as hotels go they’re not that bad when it comes to Internet connections; they have free wired Internet in all the guest rooms and free Wi-Fi in most public areas. However, we have two MacBooks so what do we do in our room?

Apple Airport Express to the rescue!

From previous trips we’ve got it set up already and usually we just plug it in and it works. Sometimes we have to change some setting on it to get it to work but not this time. Once connected it gives us Wi-Fi for our two Macs, iPhones, and more.

I recall once in Salalah, Oman, where they charged for the wired Internet connection in the room per computer but you had to accept the charges using Internet Explorer, as the instructions read. We plugged in our Airport Express, never had to accept any charges, and when we checked out they had no record of any Internet usage so we didn’t have to pay. Way to go!

Of course more and more hotels now have Wi-Fi everywhere, which is great. However, I don’t foresee us not bringing the Airport Express on our trips for many years to come.

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