Problems with Airport FW 7.6.4 ?

[drsox]

Today 4 of my AE units report that they want a firmware update.
OK, so I updated 2 V2 AEpresses with no issues, but the 3rd just won't update.
The 4th unit - a V4 AExtreme then reports a firmware update error.

WTF ? Anyone else had problems with this ?

 

[marc11]

Same issue. One updated no problem, my other kept giving me either a "cannot download" error or "update error" after about ten tries it finally updated.

 

[opinio]

Today 4 of my AE units report that they want a firmware update.
OK, so I updated 2 V2 AEpresses with no issues, but the 3rd just won't update.
The 4th unit - a V4 AExtreme then reports a firmware update error.

WTF ? Anyone else had problems with this ?

I updated a 5th gen AirPort Extreme (2011) and two 2nd gen Expresses (current) and had no problems.

You could try retro-grading back to an older firmware and upgrading from there. That has worked for me before. For example I can go back to 7.6.2 on an Express and upgrade to 7.6.4 from there instead of doing it from 7.6.3.

I am guessing you know how to do that (from your knowledgable posts ) but just in case... you hold the option key and click on the 'version' in the info window of the device in the AirPort app.

Alternately you can reset to factory and try update from there.

It could also be an Apple server issue? Perhaps not enough ports available for download.

 

[drsox]

I updated a 5th gen AirPort Extreme (2011) and two 2nd gen Expresses (current) and had no problems.

You could try retro-grading back to an older firmware and upgrading from there. That has worked for me before. For example I can go back to 7.6.2 on an Express and upgrade to 7.6.4 from there instead of doing it from 7.6.3.

I am guessing you know how to do that (from your knowledgable posts ) but just in case... you hold the option key and click on the 'version' in the info window of the device in the AirPort app.

Alternately you can reset to factory and try update from there.

It could also be an Apple server issue? Perhaps not enough ports available for download.

Thanks for your good words I'll give it a go.

The AExtreme needed a reboot before it would accept the update. It seems to need rebooting more and more often now, time to upgrade I think. Still no joy with the 3rd AExpress.

The last AExpress also needed a reboot.

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Same issue. One updated no problem, my other kept giving me either a "cannot download" error or "update error" after about ten tries it finally updated.

Sounds like a server issue if it finally did work, BUT try a reboot also.