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Re: Firmware problems with Airport Extreme



Jan-Henrik Preine <email@hidden> on Thursday, January
19, 2006 at 1:40 PM -0500 wrote:
>we have several Airport Extreme Stations at our building in a mixed  
>PC-Mac environment and they behave strange depending on their  
>firmware. We used firmware 5.4 on them for several months and they  
>became unresponsible from time to time. Only solution to make them  
>work again was to power-cycle.
>Version 5.5.1 was very stable. Uptime was about 1 month or more.
>Version 5.6 was a disaster, i had to reset several basestations every  
>morning, sometimes more than once a day.
>Version 5.7 was released at the beginning of the year to solve ping- 
>of-death, but it is nearly as unreliable as 5.6. I switched back to  
>5.5.1 on all my basestations 1 week ago, not a single problem until  
>today.
>Anybody else? What is going on here?

I also have the exact same issue.  We have about 25 Extreme base stations,
which have upgraded to 5.7 from 5.5.1 (which I will now have to downgrade
again).  I have escalated my issue with Apple Engineering and hopefully
something will come of it.

Matthew David
Sr. IT Educational Consultant
Robert Gordon & Associates @ St. Mildred's-Lightbourn School
1080 Linbrook Rd.
Oakville, Ontario
Canada
L6J 2L1
www.smls.on.ca
Tel: (905) 845-5830 ext.837
Pager: (416) 812-7717
Fax: (905) 845-4799


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