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How Can You Use Airport Express For Airplay 2 With Existing Router?

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Apple’s AirPort Express is capable of streaming iTunes all around a home network and moreover its form factor is also small. The particular router is featured with a fast Ethernet port targeted to the internet connection. But, unlike many other wireless routers, the brilliantly-designed AirPort Express features only one local-area network port. At most 50 users can share the internet connection with this particular product. Although the AirPort Express device holds only one local area Ethernet port, it has some brilliant features and functionalities that are absent in its competitors. For instance, the Express provides support to 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi radio bands. Even though independent test labs don’t report any kind of extreme performance but the capability of operating on a 5GHz network enables users to separate and avoid signal conflicts that often plague the 2.4GHz frequency. The sources of signal conflicts on the 2.4GHz radio band are microwave ovens, cordless telephones, garage door openers, power lines, electrical railroad tracks etc.

As it doesn’t have multiple Ethernet ports, the users frequently use it for the extension of the existing Wi-Fi networks – hosted by more superior wireless routers. The incredibly-designed AirPort Express features AirTunes that means it has been optimized for streaming iTunes through remote speakers. Since it is featured with an audio jack, it’s possible to make a connection of the Express to your home stereo system or to the powered speakers so that iTunes would be able to play on the stereo from a Windows or Macintosh machine.

The respective audio jack is an analog as well as optical digital audio mini-jack. The device itself comprises its own power plug – part and parcel of the unit. If you want to find the Express away from the respective power outlet or make a connection of it straightforwardly to a home stereo, Apple has introduced an optional AirPort Express Stereo Connection kit along with Monster Cables, accompanied by a digital fiber optic cable, power cord, and an analog mini-stereo-to-dual-RCA connector. The best part is that the Express is the one and only product among the affordable home wireless routers that could include the convenience of a USB port for suited printers. The USB-attached printer has become an incredible resource that’s available to everyone – present on the wireless network.

Parental controls are restricted to Media Access Control address filtering as well as access control as per time. However, no provision is there for guest networking. Moreover, the firewall makes use of Network Address Translation so that the internet could only see one IP address for the particular network although at most 50 devices are present that are using the router. The firewall doesn’t use Stateful Packet Inspection- it’s a technology that is capable of detecting hacker-initiated data packets.

Apple had come with an update for its discontinued AirPort Express and the update contains the support for AirPlay 2 that enables its users to create a multi-room audio system. It’s true that AirPort Express is a brilliant router but many people don’t know that they can easily make use of this device for adding AirPlay capabilities to an existing speaker. And in this scenario, the AirPort Express connects the existing Wi-Fi network unlike the creation of a new network or extension of the present network making use of the AirPort Express.

How Can You Use AirPort Express for AirPlay 2 with Existing Router?

Just implement the steps below and you could easily use AirPort Express for AirPlay 2 with the existing router:

First, you have to plug your AirPort Express device into the wall and allow until it boots up.

Now, you need to visit your Wi-Fi settings on your iPad, Mac, or iPhone and make a connection to the new AirPort network.

It’s time for clicking on the “Other Options” button and then you have to choose “Add to an existing network.”

In this step, you have to select the respective Wi-Fi network name from the given list and then enter the password without any mistake.

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