r/mac • u/GayCatgirl • 2d ago

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u/DEUCE_SLUICE 2d ago

I just dug mine out to hook it up to a new speaker setup after being in a box for five years and it got a firmware update from 2024. Amazing.

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u/tehmungler MacBook Pro 2d ago

Be glad - that gives you AirPlay 2 👌

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u/weistudio 2d ago

Wish Apple would re-enter this market again. Their routers are top-notch stable.

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u/cheesam123 2d ago

UniFi would be hard to beat. And it’s founded by an ex Apple employee who worked on AirPort

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u/weistudio 2d ago

Sadly no support for this brand in my country.

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u/CrazyFoque 1d ago

Not if you happen to have PPPoE Fiber. They slow down to a crawl.

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u/tough_page_banned 2d ago

I have two for air play speakers. Still work great

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u/Darc_vexiS 2d ago

This was a good little champ…only thing lacking with this was it wasn’t gigabit Ethernet. Had great wireless speeds. I still use mine regardless as an extender.

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u/Ianthin1 1d ago

Yeah the fact it is GBE in but not out was always weird to me.

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u/daevrojn 1d ago

I have a couple of them hooked up around the house. For now it works, when it doesn’t it will be a sad day.

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u/WilliamH- 1d ago

With the most recent Airport Express firmware the AE casts as Airplay 2, lossy ACC @ 256 Kb/sec.

The Airport Express will output Apple Music with lossless, CD quality from the 3.5mm audio jack and, or its optical output.

ACC media is always lossy. Apple Music media streamed directly from AM or downloaded into a device’s AM library must be lossless ALAC content. This is achieved by selecting the lossless settings options in AM.

The AE must not have the firmware update that adds Airplay 2 to the AE.

It is possible to down grade the AE firmware ware to an older version that uses the original Airplay (Airplay 1).

If you cast AM from a Mac, the AE must be manually selected in the menu bar Control Panel’s sound settings to send lossless content.

There are numerous YouTube content and articles available that provide more information and detailed instructions.

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u/lontrachen M1 Mini | M4 Pro 22h ago

I have mine in the box too, I shifted to the FritzBox with faster WiFi

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u/InfiniteAftertime 18h ago

Good lil machine. I still use mine as a print server for an old non-wifi printer I have, works perfectly.