Hot on the heels of Apple’s Airport Express comes Linksys’s Wireless-G Range Expander, which at $99 is cheaper than the Apple option, but doesn’t offer nearly the value, either. The WRE54G is only a range extender — not an access point, like the Airport Express — and of course doesn’t do all the fancy iTunes streaming, which may or may not matter to you. It’s designed to work with Linksys’s Wireless-G routers and extends both Wireless-G and Wireless-B (the two ‘almost standards’ that generally work with 802.11b and 802.11g) by plugging into any available wall socket and pressing the ‘auto configure’ button. It’s kind of fruity looking, too, but in a mildly appealing Rebel Hoth base equipment sort of way.
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https://gizmodo.com/why-apples-airport-express-may-unofficially-extend-non-15834
