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Apple Releases AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule Firmware Update 7.7.2

Intell said:
Why waste time adding back in a limited feature like that when you can access your devices via iCloud's address.
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How do you find out the iCloud address of the Airport? The only reason I still use DynDNS (and click the e-mails once a month) is for my non Back to my Mac needs for reaching my home network.

*edit* Looks like the answer is that you don't. At least if the use case is from a non Mac/IPv6 system trying to resolve it. http://apple.stackexchange.com/ques...ress-and-for-ssh-and-other-routing-of-traffic
 
drakino said:
How do you find out the iCloud address of the Airport? The only reason I still use DynDNS (and click the e-mails once a month) is for my non Back to my Mac needs for reaching my home network.
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There was an article that detailed how to find it. It uses some cryptic values based off of your MAC address. I read that article about two or three years ago.
 
After updating my Airport Extreme to 7.7.2, I'm running into an issue. All of my apple products (Macbook Air, Apple TV, iPod Touch) can connect to my 5 GHz network successfully, but all of my non Apple products (Roku 3, Nexus 7, Samsung Smart TV) cannot. They were all connecting just fine with 7.7.1. They are however able to connect to the 2.4 GHz network successfully with 7.7.2.

I've turned the 5 GHz network off and back on and have also restarted the Airport Extreme, but the issue persists. Is anyone else running into this problem?
 
The network loop issue had to do with Apple accidentally removing Spanning Tree support on the latest Time Capsule/ AirPort Extreme.
I spent several days troubleshooting a serious network issue with a house full of Sonos devices. The network screeched to a hault and Internet was terrible due specifically to network loop issues that Spanning Tree support is supposed to keep from happening. Spanning Tree support does this by creating a consistent path between devices on the network even if they have multiple ways to get there.

Bottom line is it's very good to have resolved (hopefully!)
 
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Lost my sparse bundle

Installed 7.7.2 and found Time Capsule could not do an update. Got 'preparing' notification and that ran until a notification came that the Time Machine could not update. Ran a check and got note that the 'Data' disk was corrupted.

Groan! Trashed my entire sparse bundle and prayed my daughter's Mac sparse bundle was OK.

Started a new sparse bundle (took a long while, but I hooked up a hard connect to speed the process a bit.

All is well now, except I only have a single Time Machine file and am starting the hourly automatic backup process.

I think something went amiss during the update process going from 7.7.1 to 7.7.2 Good luck to the rest of you.
 
deific said:
The network loop issue had to do with Apple accidentally removing Spanning Tree support on the latest Time Capsule/ AirPort Extreme.
I spent several days troubleshooting a serious network issue with a house full of Sonos devices. The network screeched to a hault and Internet was terrible due specifically to network loop issues that Spanning Tree support is supposed to keep from happening. Spanning Tree support does this by creating a consistent path between devices on the network even if they have multiple ways to get there.

Bottom line is it's very good to have resolved (hopefully!)
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Wow. That would explain a lot of issues we've been having ever since we started adding the AEBS 802.11ac to our office networks. Did you see this issue documented somewhere, or did you discover it yourself through packet analysis or something?

That must be a serious home network to be built around a Layer 2 switch that supports Spanning Tree, though! Maybe I'll do that when I make my first hundred million. :cool: For the average home network built around a combination of consumer ethernet switches and wireless routers like the AEBS, spanning tree shouldn't come into play at all.
 
Will this resolve it dropping the connection all the time?

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sososowhat said:
So Glad for this! I've had regular network drop-offs for weeks. Very frustrating. It generally came back after a few minutes, or if I rebooted the Airport Extreme, and sometimes if I turned wifi off & on again from my laptop. Hoping this solves it!
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Me too.
 
Mike MA said:
Just for interest, why is this one not shown in the App Store update section? If I wouldn't have read the article by accident I surely would have missed this update.

I mean, how often do you check the Airport Utilities if the network settings function correctly?
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It does show up as a notification like mine did on my desk top.;)
 
Does a hard drive have to be formatted a certain way to share it on the USB port of a time capsule? My new Time Capsule with AC cannot see my seagate external drive.
 
Rybo said:
After updating my Airport Extreme to 7.7.2, I'm running into an issue. All of my apple products (Macbook Air, Apple TV, iPod Touch) can connect to my 5 GHz network successfully, but all of my non Apple products (Roku 3, Nexus 7, Samsung Smart TV) cannot. They were all connecting just fine with 7.7.1. They are however able to connect to the 2.4 GHz network successfully with 7.7.2.

I've turned the 5 GHz network off and back on and have also restarted the Airport Extreme, but the issue persists. Is anyone else running into this problem?
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I'm also having issues with the 5GHz band with all devices after the update. My Apple products could not "see" the 5GHz band (but the 2.4GHz showed up just fine), and I had to manually enter the info for them to connect.
 
How do I open Airport Extreme to see what version I have? My Airport Utility is 6.3.2, but I don't know how to check my AE.
 
As soon as I installed this the ping form my laptop, through the AirPort to my router sent from a 1ms average to anyplace from 1ms to over 1000 and it will even drop packets.

EDIT: Downgraded to 7.7.1 and the ping is now 1-250ms, and less dropped packets. Large improvement but still meh.
 
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Keukasmallie said:
How do I open Airport Extreme to see what version I have? My Airport Utility is 6.3.2, but I don't know how to check my AE.
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Just single click the AE in Airport Utility and you will get this popup showing the firmware version.

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interesting. my airport expresses dropped off the network after updating my time capsule to 7.7.2. Pulled one down and plugged it into the network to see what was up. They are both set to join the network, but now neither one can see my 5GHz SSID, which they were previously joined to. These are older airport expresses, the old form factor single radio dual band model.

Anyone else?
 
Does anyone know if its possible to downgrade versions? I can't get my Roku to connect at all since the upgrade.
 
Rybo said:
After updating my Airport Extreme to 7.7.2, I'm running into an issue. All of my apple products (Macbook Air, Apple TV, iPod Touch) can connect to my 5 GHz network successfully, but all of my non Apple products (Roku 3, Nexus 7, Samsung Smart TV) cannot. They were all connecting just fine with 7.7.1. They are however able to connect to the 2.4 GHz network successfully with 7.7.2.

I've turned the 5 GHz network off and back on and have also restarted the Airport Extreme, but the issue persists. Is anyone else running into this problem?
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I had the exact same thing too. My MBP and iPad still worked, but my PC laptop couldn't find the 5GHz band anymore. Eventually decided to revert back to 7.7.1


tribaltek said:
Does anyone know if its possible to downgrade versions? I can't get my Roku to connect at all since the upgrade.
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Log into your iOS AirPort Utility App with your admin password and you should be able to download and install 7.7.1 from there.
 
I upgraded my Time Capsule of the latest version, i.e. Tower model.
I immediately noticed very poor performance on all wireless devices on the network. After 18 hours I rebooted the TC and now it works again.
 
Rybo said:
After updating my Airport Extreme to 7.7.2, I'm running into an issue. All of my apple products (Macbook Air, Apple TV, iPod Touch) can connect to my 5 GHz network successfully, but all of my non Apple products (Roku 3, Nexus 7, Samsung Smart TV) cannot. They were all connecting just fine with 7.7.1. They are however able to connect to the 2.4 GHz network successfully with 7.7.2.

I've turned the 5 GHz network off and back on and have also restarted the Airport Extreme, but the issue persists. Is anyone else running into this problem?
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I just bought the new Airport Extreme today and just noticed this. I figured it was an 802.11ac thing, but now I'm not so sure. Hopefully they fix this sooner rather than later (the 7.7.2 firmware update was very late to fix the hard drive issues).

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jeme said:
Does a hard drive have to be formatted a certain way to share it on the USB port of a time capsule? My new Time Capsule with AC cannot see my seagate external drive.
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You'll need to format the hard drive using a GUID partition table and a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system. I did this and it works great as a time capsule replacement on my AEBS.
 
This airport extreme has been nothing but trouble since I got it.

Some devices won't connect to it, even though the entered wifi key is correct, it keeps prompting for it and the client can't connect. Other devices will connect, but no internet. I'm constantly power-cycling the Airport.

Hopefully, this update fixes it. I'm tired of the family telling me the internet doesn't work!
 
I was happy with my new AirPort Extreme until this update. Went completely unreliable after update. Rolled back and it seems better for now.
 
I installed the 7.7.2 update and no issues so far - I have a DAP-1522 connecting to the 5Ghz channel just fine.
 
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