You don’t need to go back all the way to version 7.5.2. I told it to go back to version 7.6.1 and all the problems were fixed. If you go to the ‘version’ and press the ‘option’ key, you can select a different version of the firmware! You will see the little speech bubble kind of thing that pops up to the right with all the information about your Base station like this: ![]() To do this you need to open your “Airport Utility’ and click on your AirPort Extreme base station. Thankfully, you can tell your Airport Extreme router to go back to an older version of the firmware. (Firmware is the software that lives in your Airport Extreme base station and tells it what to do.) One affects Apple’s Time Capsule models, another deals with IPv6 issues, and a third fixes iOS device connectivity. Now according to the forums, this is a bug in Apple’s latest Airport firmware. Per The Mac Observer, Apple released AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.6.4 on Tuesday, a maintenance release for the company’s line of Wi-Fi routers that squashes three bugs. The device automatically checks for an update once a week and then flashes. If I turn the base station off and then on again the problem is fixed – until it happens again… Apple has released new firmware for the AirPort Base Station and Time Capsule. I can unplug my Ethernet cable and plug it back in, the problem remains. The new Apple Airport Base Station firmware update 7.6.4 addresses issues that were causing intermittent loss in Wi-Fi connectivity with iOS devices as well as an issue that may cause an IPv6. It is saying that my Ethernet is unplugged. When I click on the base station I see this error report: My Internet stops working and when I open the ‘Airport Utility’ my base station has this little red error alert: Here is how to fix it by reverting back to an older version. ![]() From the release notes: AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.6. ![]() The update is available for all of Apple’s 802.11n-enabled base station devices, and fixes a variety of bugs and performance issues. After reading a few forums I discovered there is a bug in the most recent Apple AirPort Extreme base station firmware. Apple has released a maintenance update for their AirPort Base Station and Time Capsule devices, bringing the firmware version number up to 7.6.4. Quite often, once a week or so, I was losing my Internet connection and I would have to reboot the base station to fix it. System, Apple, Airport Base Station Firmware, 7.6.4, All, All, All. Hope this clarifies it further.Įditing /augmenting my response with a comment - I was even contemplating to complain to apple and reseller I got my device year + ago to possibly replace the unit, but now that it all worked out I am happy.I have a 2009 Apple Airport Extreme. This issue is fixed in AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.8.1, AirPo. don't like auto upgrades.I like to see upgrades done, ppl use it, not report issues and then I do my upgrades). If I had time to deal with the bigger issue here I would ask Apple, ok why my utility was not pulling 7.7.1 or 7.7.3 and why I had to do all of this to finish simple process that should in reality happen in matter of minutes (I do not have check auto weekly for the code not do I like or trust that feature i.e. An attacker in a privileged position may be able to perform a denial of service attack. This issue is fixed in AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.8.1, AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.9.1. In the light of my question and wasted exchanges with the previous poster I didn't describe this part because it was irrelevant as I was only asking how I can get the code. A denial of service issue was addressed with improved memory handling. You are correct definitely because 7.7.1 was already there, but to for me unknown reason it is not showing on the Airport Extreme and in the drop meny I explained/described, however definitely there and clearly reason I was able to do manual upgrade. AS I found the code, before I went about manual process I went into my ~/Library/Applications Support/Apple/AirPort directory to check the version.xml file and voila it showed how I do have 7.7.1 running and installed way back, so then I proceeded the manual process I described above and it worked. I restored to factory defaults in the mena time of this original posting, however pull down menu was not showing 7.7.1 rather it was still displaying 7.6.4, hence why I was so eager to get 7.7.3 binary and do manual upgrade. ![]() So when I wanted to upgrade using the airport utility which logically should pull 7.7.1 first and then later 7.7.3, neither would work. No magic, but I had a real weird situation that I have no way to explain.
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