Questions & Answers for AirPort Express

Yes and no- it depends heavily on what exactly you mean by 'WiFi'.

The AirPort Express WILL generate a wireless network that can be used by your iPhone and iPad, and could be used by any other device with a wireless card or that could be connected to its wired connection. If you're looking to use it to send music to a stereo, create a network to hook an AppleTV to in order to use AirPlay from your devices, transfer files between apps that allow a WiFi transfer- it will do that just fine on its own.

BUT- if you are looking at a way to get internet access, the Airport Express WILL NOT generate this on its own. You will need some form of boradband connection (cable, DSL, etc.) to connect the AirPort Express to. From there, its WiFi connection would allow your iPhone and iPad (and anything else) to get on to the internet. The Airport Express can best be thought of as a way to SHARE an internet connection, not a way to generate one.

• Answered by Robert B from Lexington
• 13/07/2012
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Does it supply wifi if i have no computer - I have only an iphone and ipad? I live in a rural area and need wifi for my iphone and ipad .)

Yes but in a convoluted fashion.
The iPhone and iPad will do Screen Mirroring to the Apple TV which forwards the signal to your TV. The Amazon Prime app for iDevices will view the Amazon supplied video. A friend comes over and does this through our Apple TV. If you do it enough, you'll become proficient at it.
We have a Roku device and usually don't need to mirror from our iPads. Apple and Amazon sell special cable/connectorss to connect the iDevice directly to the TV itself (cables with S-video, HDMI connectors).
All of these choices work well.

• Answered by Williammichael H from Knoxville
• 22/07/2014
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Amazon Prime)

Although it isn't made very obvious, Airport Express can only extend a network generated by an Airport Extreme.

• Answered by David S
• 17/03/2015
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Can i use my Airport Express to extend my wireless network with another brand router?)

I may be late to the party here but YES it will. I currently have a 10 year old Linksys WRT54G (802.11 b/g) hardwired via a Belkin ethernet powerline connection to the Extreme and it works just fine. But remember, your fastest speed will be at the rate of the slowest link. So I get 802.11 AC speeds when my devices are connecting to the Extreme, but devices connected to the WRT54G get about 100mb max on a good day due to transiting over the powerline ethernet connection.

I am waiting to see if they release a new airport express supporting 802.11AC, then I will also upgrade my powerline connection to the newest boxes. Then I will also get Apple TV and leverage the faster speeds. My stuff is 5 years old, and there is newer better faster stuff out there now.

Hope this helps - Good Luck.

• Answered by Joshua T O from Phoenix
• 23/11/2013
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Will the airport express work with the new 802.11ac Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station or should I buy the 802.11n Extreme?)

Ideally you do need to have a separate box which provides your internet connection. (modem) As for your question regarding the iPad, you can download software off the app store which you'll use to configure the airport express.

• Answered by Ray C
• 26/03/2013
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Do I have to have a separate modem to create my own network Internet connection or can I just set it up with my iPad?)

I believe this is the MC414LL/A model number A1392.

• Answered by Patricia L from Joshua Tree
• 9/05/2013
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (what is the newest airport express model number)