Apple Releases AirPort Utility 6.0 & AirPort Firmware 7.6.1
Apple released AirPort Utility 6.0 on Monday, an update to the company’s software for managing AirPort base stations. The company also released AirPort Base Station and Time Capsule Firmware Update 7.6.1 . Both updates include improvements to Apple’s WiFi performance and other new features.
AirPort Utility 6.0 adds a new graphical overview of your WiFi network and the devices on that network. It includes a new interface for managing that network, as well.
AirPort Utility 6.0
Apple’s patch notes for AirPort Utility 6.0:
The firmware update is for all 802.11n AirPort Express, 802.11n AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule models, The patch notes say simply that it, “fixes an issue with wireless performance and provides support for remote access to an AirPort disk or a Time Capsule hard drive with an iCloud account.”
AirPort Utility 6.0 can be downloaded through Software Update or through the update’s webpage on Apple’s support site . The firmware update can then be downloaded through AirPort Utility.
Just to highlight that if you have an older router such as a non-N Airport Express, you cannot use this to administrate it. A detail I didn’t notice at first. So you will have to download the 5.6 version and keep both until your older devices finally die.
As well, while I never used the features, it appears the new utility drops some advanced options regarding logging and statistics.
Prettied up and dumbed down for the iOS crowd, indeed.
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The new AirPort Utility was released simultaneously with firmware upgrades for all 802.11n Wi-Fi base stations: the AirPort Extreme, Time Capsule, and AirPort Express. The firmware adds iCloud support, discussed below, and “fixes an issue with wireless
Use AirPort Utility to set up and manage your Wi-Fi network and AirPort base stations, including AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and Time Capsule. See a graphical overview of your Wi-Fi network and devices. Change base station and network settings,
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[Tutorial] Setting up WDS with Apple airports | achter.be
UPDATE: in minutes of me posting this tutorial, my airport utility got an update to v6.0 and all I said is obsolete, my WDS network still works, but I don’t know yet how to set it up correctly.
Over here we have a nice setup for our wireless network and playing music in all the rooms of our house. It’s supported by Apple airports. As you can see in the above screenshot. We use an Airport extreme as the router and 3 Airport expresses as relays. Last saturday evening however, disaster struck and our Airport extreme died. Well it did not die completely, it stopped serving internet through the wifi connections and there was only connection via ethernet connections. The wifi clients however could still connect, authenticate and got an ip-address, but there it all stopped. I tried everything to restore the connections, but despite all my efforts for about 3 hours. Rebooting, resetting, hard resetting nothing worked. So I setup a temporary solution and went out today to get a new Airport extreme.
Let’s get to the technical part of this article. How do you setup a network of 4 airports across the house on the same network with wpa2 security enabled? The first and most important step is to hard reset all the airports, the only way to do that if the airports don’t come straight from the box is to hold down the little reset button while pluggin in the airport. If you don’t know how, check this support-page on the Apple .
Configure the base station or WDS mainYou start by selecting manual configuration in the airport utility, don’t use the wizard, as you will not be able to setup WDS. On the next screen, you’ll see a couple of tabs, but none of them shows WDS, at least when you have a recent airport extreme.
Now setup your Base Station like always, fill out the name, choose a password, … under the Base Station tab.
@ You should get an Airport Extreme. So much better and a lot easier to change settings.
@ don't get me wrong. I like my Airport Extreme but the lack of advanced options can be frustrating. No MTU settings for example...
@ What happened to IPv6 in latest AirPort Extreme Base Station and AirPort Utility? All my settings are gone.