Mac stuff - the airport express

[jon stallard]

Just ordered one of these for use with my mac mini and hopefully 'super dooper cor blimey, what, all of that in such a small box' reborn mac mini next year (as well as the odd MCE2005 machine). I got it for it's music relaying properties primarily but reading on, it seems that it will connect to your broadband account as well, then connect wirelessly (plus plug a USB printer in and use that wirelessly) to your mac's/PC's.

Is that correct? I have a wireless router and seperate ADSL modem at the moment, a right rats nest of cabling and of course, the obligatory power supplies. So am I reading correctly that this small little device simply plugs into the mains, you connect your phone line and that's that? Can't be right surely???

Jon.

[jont]

Jon ... not quite ... the airport express doesn't have any adsl gubbins inside but if you connect your adsl modem to the ethernet port on the bottom you can use that to wirelessly connect to the internet - asuming you have an airport card inside the mac mini...

Jon