Hi Scott R. and Scott H.,
The recommended sequence is to plug in your AirPort Express and
connect any devices (printers, audio equipment, etc.), then run
AirPort Utility. As David Poehlman mentioned in the earlier
discussion about the AirPort Express, you'll be informed updates for
the AirPort Express when you run AirPort Utility, and you'll be asked
if you want to download any updates then. As with most Apple
products, there's a product manual you can get as a PDF file from:
http://support.apple.com/manuals
Just do a Google search for "Apple support manuals" if you need to
find that page again. Then type in "Airport Express" in the search
field. The first entry is for the AirPort Express Setup Guide (Early
2008):
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/AirPort_Express_Setup_Guide.pdf
Here's the section on "Connecting to an Existing Wireless
Network" (pasted from that document):
<begin quote>
Connecting to an Existing Wireless Network
You can use AirPort Utility to join an existing wireless network. When
you connect your
AirPort Express to your home stereo, computers on your wireless
network can use
AirTunes to play music from iTunes on the stereo. If you connect a USB
printer to your
AirPort Express, all of the computers on the network can print to the
printer.
Make sure you connect the audio cable to your stereo and the USB cable
to your
printer before you use AirPort Utility.
To connect to an existing network:
1 Open AirPort Utility, located in the Utilities folder in the
Applications folder on a
Macintosh, or in Start > All Programs > AirPort on a Windows computer.
2 Follow the onscreen instructions to connect your AirPort Express to
your wireless
network.
<end quote>
You'll probably want to read the sections about
"Using AirPort Express on an Existing Wireless Network and Stream
Music to Powered
Speakers or Your Home Stereo" and the tips for placing your AirPort
Express to avoid
interference.
Also, the AirPort Express can be used for streaming music on PC
networks from computers running Windows with iTunes, and there are
instructions on how to do that as well (not necessary in your case).
Rogue Amoeba also makes a Windows version of AirFoil that allows
streaming audio content (not just from iTunes) using the AirPort
Express .
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
On Dec 21, 2008, at 6:45 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
You will use AirPort Utility to accomplish these things. It takes
maybe all of ten or so seconds to boot, but of course your going to
have to open the utility and see if it appears in the table of
routers. It'll have a name like Apple some number. Not sure how the
new ones show up. It'll then allow you to configure it and set it up
not only to stream music, but to act as an extender as well.
hth
On Dec 21, 2008, at 11:32 AM, Scott Rutkowski wrote:
Hi all mac listers.
can anyone please advise i've just purchased an airport express and
i'm wondering i've connected power to the unit and am wondering is
the first thing I should do is open airport utility and upgrade the
firmware and then how do I just tell airport express I want to
stream music wirelessly using iTunes?
I thought I remember Esther or someone saying I can tell airport
express to then connect to my wireless router using 80211n and then
once configured take it in to the next room and connect it to my
stereo aux in.
Is this correct so far or have I missed anything important?
how long does an airport express take to boot up when power is
applied?
Does the firmware for airport express get upgraded only via the
airport utility and not via software update like other mac firmware?
Sorry for the questions am new to airport express and setting up an
airport device on a mac for the first time.
Thanks all for your assistance.
Scott Howell
[email protected]
