{"id":4197,"date":"2004-08-04T13:12:17","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T13:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2004-08-04T13:12:17","modified_gmt":"2004-08-04T13:12:17","slug":"smc_bests_airpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4197","title":{"rendered":"SMC Bests Airport Express? Maybe not."},"content":{"rendered":"

Over on Gizmodo there’s a post about the new SMC SMCWRK-G<\/a>, which is a portable wireless access point similar to the Airport Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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SMC has announced a new portable wireless access point a la the Airport Express. They’re calling it the “EZ Connect™ g 2.4GHz 802.11g Wireless Traveler’s Kit SMCWTK-G,” but we’ll probably just call it the SMCWRK-G or Dance Panda Mandy, as it suits us. For what it lacks in good looks it makes up in features, as the SMCWRK-G can do everything the Airport Express can do and more (save the iTunes streaming), including act as an Ethernet bridge. It might not be attractive, but it’s $30 cheaper, ringing in at just $100.<\/p>\n

Perennial Wi-Fi smart guy Glenn Fleishmann weighs in with a little more detail at Wi-Fi Networking News.<\/p>\n

Read<\/strong> – SMC Offers Multifunction Traveling Gateway [WiFiNetNews]<\/a>
\nRead<\/strong> – Press Release [SMC]<\/a><\/p>\n

[Gizmodo<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Airport Express is also a print server, which SMC isn’t listing as a feature for this device. This looks like it is more useful if you just need wireless access when you travel. But for $30 you’re losing a bit of functionality, and you need to carry around a power supply to go with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over on Gizmodo there’s a post about the new SMC SMCWRK-G, which is a portable wireless access point similar to the Airport Express. SMC has announced a new portable wireless access point a la the Airport Express. They’re calling it the “EZ Connect™ g 2.4GHz 802.11g Wireless Traveler’s Kit SMCWTK-G,” but we’ll probably just call […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-geeky-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}