Airport Express

Beyond its role as an audio sink for iTunes, the Airport Express is first and foremost a wireless base station. And it's an awesome one. You know from the specs it's going to be small, but when you hold it in your hand and realize that in the box is a power supply, wireless base station, print server and an audio output ... well, let's just say it's surprising. ... Of course the small size makes it a road warrior's dream. But one thing that has plagued me in taking my larger base stations with me on the road is configuring them for the different environments it will be in. Well, that pain is no more thanks to a feature that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere—but was damn happy to find. Airport Express supports profiles. These seem to be stored on the device itself and are accessible from the Airport Admin Utility ...

x180: james duncan davidson