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Using AirPort Express 4 4 This chapter provides information and instructions for using the AirPort Express Assistant to set up your AirPort Express. You can use AirPort Express to share broadband Internet access with wireless computers on your network, play iTunes music on your home stereo using AirTunes, and much more. Use the diagrams in the documentation that came with your AirPort Express to find out more about AirPort Express and to help you decide how you want to use it. Then use the instructions in this chapter to easily configure AirPort Express and set up your network. With AirPort Express you can: • Create a new network that wireless computers can use to communicate with each other. If you set up your AirPort Express as a base station and connect it to the Internet, wireless computers can also share the Internet connection. • Connect AirPort Express to your existing wireless network • Connect AirPort Express to your existing AirPort Extreme or AirPort Express network and extend the range of your wireless network using WDS • Connect AirPort Express to your stereo or powered speakers and use AirTunes to play music from iTunes • Connect AirPort Express to a compatible USB printer so that everyone on the wireless network can share the printer Creating a New AirPort Network or Connecting to an Existing Wireless Network With AirPort Express you can create a new wireless network, join an existing AirPort or other wireless network, or extend the range of your existing AirPort Extreme network. The way you set up AirPort Express depends on how you will be using it. Use the following information to help you decide what to do. 55

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Using AirPort Express
This chapter provides information and instructions for
using the AirPort Express Assistant to set up your AirPort
Express.
You can use AirPort Express to share broadband Internet access with wireless
computers on your network, play iTunes music on your home stereo using AirTunes,
and much more.
Use the diagrams in the documentation that came with your AirPort Express to find out
more about AirPort Express and to help you decide how you want to use it. Then use
the instructions in this chapter to easily configure AirPort Express and set up your
network.
With AirPort Express you can:
•
Create a new network that wireless computers can use to communicate with each
other. If you set up your AirPort Express as a base station and connect it to the
Internet, wireless computers can also share the Internet connection.
•
Connect AirPort Express to your existing wireless network
•
Connect AirPort Express to your existing AirPort Extreme or AirPort Express network
and extend the range of your wireless network using WDS
•
Connect AirPort Express to your stereo or powered speakers and use AirTunes to play
music from iTunes
•
Connect AirPort Express to a compatible USB printer so that everyone on the wireless
network can share the printer
Creating a New AirPort Network or Connecting to an Existing
Wireless Network
With AirPort Express you can create a new wireless network, join an existing AirPort or
other wireless network, or extend the range of your existing AirPort Extreme network.
The way you set up AirPort Express depends on how you will be using it. Use the
following information to help you decide what to do.