Everybody has them -- those pesky dead zones in the house or office where the Wi-Fi signal is weak or nonexistent. Apple designed the AirPort Express as a handy little plug-n-play network extender, but a good number of people find it to be problematic both in setup and in operation. TUAW recently received a compact Wi-Fi Range Extender from Amped Wireless -- the REC10 (US$79.99) -- and ran it through some tests to see how easy it was to set up and also how well it worked.
Design
One of the nice things about Apple's AirPort Express is how small it is; the old version that plugged directly into a wall socket was particularly useful, and I'm not exactly sure why Apple chose to go with the c
