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Apple Releases AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.9.1
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Was wondering the same thing. My AC TC sits behind a 4th gen. Extreme and they always got updated at the same time in the past. This update hasn't even shown for me yet.
What makes you think Tim Cook had any personal involvement in the decision to drop these products? I get that people like to hate on Tim Cook, but you have no idea the reasons behind the decision to discontinue these products, or who initiated that conversation or signed off on it.
Maybe it being a discontinued product has something to do with that?
Yes, as demonstrated by this security patch. Another option would’ve been for Apple to abandon it, but they didn’t.
Great! I’m glad I decided to get some more of these 802.11ac AirPort Extremes off eBay for relatively cheap to fill out my home network. I guess this does serve as a reminder though to replace my previous generation 802.11n model.
@EugW that is an impressive setup. I found having a ‘tall’ TimeMachine and the older ‘horizontal’ TimeMachine on the same network unstable. I also had three Express as well. The entire system needed rebooting every few weeks.
I’ve dropped down to one ‘tall’ TM and one last-gen Express at the moment.
I’ve dropped down to one ‘tall’ TM and one last-gen Express at the moment.
My ancient AirPort Expresses also had stability issues, and eventually they died, presumably due to heat. But not so with my AirPort Extremes though, as I almost never need to reboot this setup, and the AirPort Extremes were also necessary to get 802.11ac.
I guess the good news about that lone 802.11n model in my setup is that it usually is not exposed to most of those security issues, since it’s not doing any routing. Only the “Basement” unit is a router, all the others are just acting as access points behind it.
The other unadvertised bonus of this setup is that all Apple clients roam freely with seamless handoff, despite the fact it’s not a true mesh system. A similarly configured non-mesh non-Apple setup does not provide seamless handoff for Apple clients.
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To be fair XP is still running on millions and millions of computers though (especially in corporate and commercial settings) where as in comparison these routers are very very niche.
No update available for mine. It’s still on 7.7.9
Edit... just got the update
Edit... just got the update
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Agreed, but allowing backups to time capsules or time machine servers would undercut Apple’s business model of recurring revenue generated by iCloud. THAT is the ecosystem in Apple’s mindset.
"Apple today released AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.9.1 for AirPort Extreme and AirPort Time Capsule base stations with 802.11ac support."
No they aren't, iCloud backups are still accessible by Apple I'm pretty sure
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They had a more recent update with AirPlay 2
AirPort Extreme is still a best-in-class solution for most customers.
It’s right up there with Steve Jobs’s decision to drop Aperture, dumb down Mac OS, attempt to kill Final Cut Pro Studio, drop Final Cut Express, or in general kill off the pro market so he can sell his dumb iToys. That was Steve Jobs. That is Apple. Tim boy is just being a good soldier.
my workaround is rollback to 7.7.8 and then update to latest.
There were many possibilities for better use of airport and iOS integration, such as caching OSX / iOS downloads for installation to other devices, backing up your iToys locally... etc.
Yes, many companies do. I'm still receiving updates for several Garmin devices that have long since been superseded by newer products.
I haven’t logged into my AirPort Extreme control panel through airport utility on my Mac in a long time and I seem to have forgotten the password to access the router’s admin panel, how should I go about applying this new firmware update without the AirPort Extreme admin pass?
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It would be lovely if Apple went back to selling these again.
To be honest, Documents is what Files should be.Install Documents by Readdle, it can access the Time Capsule (and any other SMB share) just fine.
Thanks, but that didn’t seem to work. The newest version was still 7.7.9. Oh well, maybe my AirPort Extreme is too old. I think I bought in the summer of 2015. It’s been the best router I’ve ever owned. It’s too bad they stopped making them.
Edit. Just got the update
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