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Apple updates AirPort Base Station software

Apple on Tuesday updated its AirPort Base Station software for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, as well as recent version of the Windows operating system.

The 11.4MB update began showing up via the Mac OS X Software Update application as "AirPort Base Station Update 2008-001" earlier this afternoon for those users who own one of the company's 802.11 routers.

According to Apple's "release notes," the update includes general fixes and compatibility updates for AirPort Utility, AirPort Disk Utility, and AirPort Base Station Agent.

Shortly thereafter, a similar set of updates were released via the company's website under the heading "AirPort Utility 5.3.1." Those distributions was made available as a 8.8MB download for Leopard, a 9.33MB download for Tiger, and a 10.28MB download for Windows XP and Vista.

"AirPort Utility v5.3.1 is the simple to use, setup and management utility for the AirPort Express Base Station, the AirPort Extreme Base Station and Time Capsule," Apple said in the release notes for those downloads.



27 Comments

gigi 18 Years · 65 comments

Did this update contain the possibility to backup with time machine over the air with a regular airport extreme?

ringo 22 Years · 329 comments

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Originally Posted by gigi

Did this update contain the possibility to backup with time machine over the air with a regular airport extreme?

I sure hope so, but I don't see any mention of a firmware update being part of this.

deapeajay 19 Years · 882 comments

Quote:
Originally Posted by gigi

Did this update contain the possibility to backup with time machine over the air with a regular airport extreme?

Crossing my fingers that it does

foo2 17 Years · 1077 comments

No problems before. Now with 5.3.1 I can't access the configurations of my AEs. Setup just sits and spins.

aplnub 20 Years · 2385 comments

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Originally Posted by Foo2

No problems before. Now with 5.3.1 I can't access the configurations of my AEs. Setup just sits and spins.

No problems here with my stuff.