Airport Extreme firmware updated today

By James Kendrick | Tuesday, April 1, 2008 | 2:27 PM CT | 2 comments | Tweet This

Airport_extreme Forget the intelligence behind releasing firmware upgrades on April 1st, Apple today released one for the Airport Extreme router. I can’t find any information posted on Apple’s web site yet to determine what changes are installed with this firmware upgrade but I have been experiencing major intermittent slow-downs in my bandwidth today. I wonder if the upgrade has anything to do with it?

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Comments (2)

James, I don’t think that firmware was released today, but rather last week.

And I’ve definitely have been having traffic shaping issues since I installed it on my router as well. My SpeedDownload bandwidth number goes up and down like a yoyo.

Scotty — 10:10 AM on April 1, 2008 Reply
I’m guessing the same: this is the one from March 19th that enabled Time Machine backups off a USB drive and an AEBS. I haven’t had any bandwidth issues since then though. The first Time Machine backup takes forever… couple of days for 80 GB.

Kevin C. Tofel — 10:44 AM on April 1, 2008 Reply