Warning: Potential issue with AirPort Utility 6.3 Update

I have updated to Airport Utility 6.3, but can still see my AEBS fifth gen, however I am not offered the firmware update to 7.7.1, which I should be.

 

After the upgrade I see my TC, new type Express, and older vertical style express. No problems. Ready for the new TC tower to arrive next week.

 

No, that firmware is for the base stations released yesterday.

 

Thanks chrfr, I missed that and am a bit out of date with the new ac band.

 

It would be nice then for Apple to actually be accurate with their website information: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1665

 

Interesting, there seems to be 2 versions of the page.
The one I see at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1665?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US makes no mention of 802.11n, while the non-localized link above does say that.

 

hi having exactly the same problem with mr ed. i couldn't downgrade my airport utility to 6.2. the mac OS dont allow me to install a lower version of airport utility.

 

Mine is working as advertised. I can see my work AEBS as well as my home units. All good.

 

Didn't work for me either.

If you have a backup of 6.2 I recommend downgrading. I did and it worked fine again.

If you can't downgrade because the OS won't let you, manually sudo delete the 6.3 copy from the terminal then recopy the backup. If you want to do this but don't know how, find a friend who does, because you can break something if you aren't careful.

 

I'm having the same issue, with a caveat.
15 rmbp has the issue not able to open my time capsule with the airport utility, but wifi works just fine.
mac min has the same issue
13 mac air no problem I can access the time capsule with the airport utility.

Pat

 

called up apple & confirmed they have issue with v6.3. the apple lady recommended to downgrade by moving airport utility v6.3 to desktop before installing v6.2. will try later tonight if this will work.
what a foolish upgrade

 

I have never been able to successfully upgrade firmware on an Extreme. I stick with the out of the box firmware install, and when a new device is released I move up.

 

I turned on IPV6, as suggested by someone in the Apple support forums, and that fixed the problem. Utility 6.3 now sees all of my devices.

 

AirPort Utility 6.3 Upgrade Question

Hello Mr. Ed,
I'm a little leary of upgrading to AirPort Utility 6.3 after reading your recent posts. You mentioned talking to Apple Support about upgrading and the support rep told you to use: IPV6- what exactly is that? I asked MY DSL Provider (Frontier) and they are totally non-technical when it comes to this. Then I mentioned I was using a Mac and then sat on hold till I got someone who was reading cut-lines out of a book. After a frustrating 45 minutes the guy said- 'sorry, you're on your own'! I did a search and came across (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4667) but without getting my Service Provider to give me a IPv6 address, router address, and prefix length- I'm dead in the water.
Is it possible to hide this update so everything the App Updater doesn't ask me to update this?
Please let me know- thanks!

 

You can turn on IPv6 support, but you don't have to set it up and actually use it across your network.

 

I have a last gen AEBS and My IPv6 setting is "Automatically" and Airport 6.3 utility finds it just fine.