AirPort Extreme Base Station with 802.11n*, Firmware 7.1.1

[Dwight Schrute]

Apple just released a firmware update for Apple Airport Extreme Base Station 802.11n. Here's a link:

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/airportextremebasestationwith80211nfirmware711.html

About AirPort Extreme Base Station with 802.11n*, Firmware 7.1.1
This update includes all fixes in Firmware 7.1 plus additional compatibility updates for the AirPort Extreme Base Station with 802.11n*.

Firmware 7.1 provided improved Mac and Windows support for:
- Printers and Routers, VPN, PPPoE, WDS(ACL), WEP(TSN)
- Localized file naming, port mapping, IPv6, and NAS
- Improved stability with keychain passwords
- Improved support for third party applications saving files to a USB disk
- Improved support for AirPort USB disk stability and power saving, disk read/write performance, disk file sharing and passwords
- Addressed an issue where Base Station would not request a password when expected

This update requires AirPort Utility 5.1. If you have AirPort Utility 5.0 installed, you can update to AirPort Utility 5.1 by installing AirPort Base Station Update 2007-001:
AirPort Base Station Update 2007-001 for Mac
AirPort Base Station Update 2007-001 for Windows

For detailed information on the security content of the Firmware 7.1 update, please visit this website: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798

* Based on an IEEE 802.11n specification.

 

[Reflow]

Ha ha ha somebody likes the office show...

 

[AliensAreFuzzy]

Installing now... Hopefully it'll help some of the stability issues I've been having

 

[Mac-Addict]

Just updated now and my connection seems faster...

 

[Dwight Schrute]

I've noticed that my iMac re-establishes its connection faster when waking from sleep mode since installing this update.