Traveling with Aiport Express

I want to travel with my airport express so I can hook it up to a friends house when I there. While at home it will be hooked up to my home stereo and also extend my airport extreme network or connect to that network. I'm wondering what the best setting is so I can have this mobility with having to reinstall software or change configuration. Thanks

Hi James, perhaps this will go some way to answering your query.
simply have several PROFILEs in the apx. when you got to a mates place or a hotel, just connect with the AP Util.app and change the profile.
Use the AP UTIL to add and manage your profiles.
The APX will restart and you're away.
I have 3 APX's for my place here and these are part of an extended network. I change the profile when I hit a hotel.
I travel a great deal and use on of my APX in this mode constantly
hth
w

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