DISQUS

mj · 1 year ago

Apple never admit bugs. Ever.

That said - BitTorrent seems to bugger up nearly every model of router.

Nasty, bad but sooo good.

David Rice · 1 year ago

The netgear one was awesome with BitTorrent while it was alive, it was second hand and died of a power supply failure after a couple of months. But they were months of blissful downloading.

mj · 1 year ago

It shouldn't die tho. Do you have a surge protector and a UPS?

David Rice · 1 year ago

I do have a surge protector, so I'm not sure what caused it do die... but there wasn't much to do with it being out of warranty and from america.

Stewart Curry · 1 year ago

I'd also give the Airport Express a miss (it's the plug socket wireless thing for streaming audio/coneecting a wireless printer/expanding a wireless network) - it is basically a bitch to setup, especially if your WiFi is not open.

mj · 1 year ago

I might be a total fanboy, but we've not seen these issues with either Express or Extreme. Face it - we couldn't run our office on these devices as we plainly do.

Bittorrent is bad, mmkay. For routers. I mean.

KDS · 1 year ago

My airport wireless gigabit is dead. Dead! No power. Now I have to return it, presumably get a new one, and apparently hold my breath until the power fails again. Crap.

MissH · 1 year ago

Dude! any chance you can sendspace the firmware?
give us a direct link???
apple is NO help at all on this.

James Marcus · 1 year ago

Thanks for writing this article I'm having the same issue.

Jonas · 1 year ago

Having the same problem
It drops the conection a couple of times a day, and craches totaly about once a week, requiering the plug to be pulled. And almost every time I change its settings it will stop communicationg requiering a total restore to factory settings.
I have to change some settings now to enable a webserver. I wish it wont crash now, cus' its a pain to get it working again.

Jonas · 1 year ago

Finally a new patch is available that claims to fix the issues! New version: 7.3.1
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/timecaps...
It looks like you can download the file from here, but don't be fooled! It's available through Airport Utility 5.2.1 and above.
Just installed it, but I can not confirm whether it indeed fixes the bugs.

Markus Wanneberg · 1 year ago

same issue with my base. Hope apple will move, they delivered obvieusly shitty bases!

David Rice · 1 year ago

So I installed the 7.3.1 firmware and all is well :) No network drop outs since last week. Fingers crossed.

davymac · 1 year ago

David,
Useful info here, thanks for posting. I'd sufered the same fate with previous version of this firmware, only noticed when my iPhone refused to go on web. I downgraded as you recommended and that solved it, but not an ideal solution to go backwards! So I just logged in to ask the question if the new updater fixed it and you already answered it - man you must be Telepsychotic ;-)

Thanks for sharing.

Paul · 1 year ago

Feel a bit burned - bought the AEBS on the "wireless Time Machine" promise. Promise withdrawn, now there's Time Capsule for $xx.xx more. New Apple user, not thrilled. All the 7.1 - 7.2 - 7.1 putzing around to make it work at all.

Question: I've read that for some 7.3.1 drops their print functions for printers hung off the AEBS. Any trouble like that? I don't want to bother with the update if it's going to be another fiasco like 7.2.x.

Thanks for any info. I'm sure not to get it from Apple.

David Rice · 1 year ago

Paul, it works fine for printing for me. I would upgrade to 7.3.1 asap if I were you. My network hasn't dropped for weeks since I updated.