What is AirPort and what is it for?

Many times we find products Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), that they are not so well known and that their function makes us curious. Today I bring you a brief explanation of AirPort, if it is functional and if it is worth buying.

AirPort by Apple

First of all we have to know that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), what you are looking for is that all your devices connect with each other without complications as we have already seen with the AppleTV and a very important tool that we use in all our devices, iCloud. Therefore Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), It has also been concerned so that in our homes and offices we have the possibility of interacting with external devices.

As we see in the picture, AirPort It is made up of 5 inputs and a small button. The first port, located on the left of the image, is for connect power cord current, followed by a ethernet connection in which we will connect the cable from our conventional modem to the AirPort and so we will leave AirPort managing our internet network.

The following ethernet port will be free to connect a computer by cable. Below we find a USB port that will allow us to convert a conventional printer into a AirPrint that is, if your printer is connected only by usb cable, all you have to do is connect it to the airport, configure it from the Mac and voila, you can now print wirelessly from any iDevice.

One of the functions that I like the most is that by means of an audio cable or auxiliary output connected to an amplifier or sound equipment we can reproduce the audio from our devices.pple wirelessly from anywhere in our home or where we have the AirPort connected, just as we do in the AppleTV, we only select AirPort and ready!

Finally, the small button that we find to the right of the whole is to restart the Aimport if we have problems and want to configure it from scratch.

AirPort Settings

Its configuration is easier than you think. At Mac you just have to search AirPort Utility and it will appear immediately while on the devices iOS You just have to download the free application Aimport full App Store and you will have everything within the application to configure it.

As we see in the image the AirPort Express It will allow us to configure a private, hidden or guest Wi-Fi network in order to better organize the devices that connect to our network, in addition to being able to configure two types of network band 2,4 GHz for devices prior to iPhone 4s and a band of 5 GHz for later devices.

In addition, one of the main functions is that amplify the wifi signal and you will have more reception from wherever you are with your connected device.

Addition AirPort Express We have the Airport Extreme Time Capsule that together with the same functions already seen, adds three new and quite interesting. The first is that it includes a hard drive from 1 TB to 3 TB that will constantly back up all our Poppy.

Second, if we connect to AiPort Extreme an external usb hard drive we can share your information wirelessly to all our devices connected to the network

And finally, we will have more ethernet ports and a much wider coverage of our Wi-Fi network because we can put one in the living room and one in our room and the extreme airport will repeat and amplify the signal of our Wi-Fi network from airport express.

With what has already been said, for me personally your purchase is a good option if your home or your work space is large and your internet does not have a good Wi-Fi signal, also if you are one of those who do not like cables very much it is a good option to have your music, printer and files shared constantly without having to worry about connections and so on Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), always seeks to give us comfort and more than that.