I've owned 2 Airport Expresses and they have both died after the warranty period.

Before they died they were unreliable and required frequent reconfiguration. Reconfiguration takes 15 minutes and requires pressing and holding the reset button, using a computer to join the standalone wireles network they create by default, and using the Apple configuration utilty. AEs do not provide a web-based configuration utility.

Finding updated versions of the firmware or apple config utility on the Apple website is painful.

I could never determine why the AEs lost their configuration details so often: my router has required reboots, but has never lost its settings.

I've given up on AEs and won't replace it.

Having attended CmdrTaco's speech, I gotta say it sucked. Seriously. At sometime around his 5th interruption of a question with "Blue!" or "Boxers!", I realized that the proprietor of technophile village's 'town pub' lacks any perspective or insight at all. Most bartenders have a more perspective on life. Folks, your fearless leader is nothing but a guy who had the right Pearl at the right time.