Firmware 7.4.1 troubles

Good news: 7.4.1 is the first firmware that allows reliable, steady connection of an external USB drive without it dropping out after it sleeps, esp. with Time Machine.

Bad news: a LOT of other stuff is broken. My Apple TV vanished from the Devices list and after trying all of the usual repairs would not come back until I downgraded to 7.3.2.

-dan

hi,

I can report the following problems after 7.4.1 upgrade: (timecapsule 1GB)

• The speed of backing up to the Timecapsule got a lot slower
• My Vonage modem that was hanging on the TimeCapsule was getting bad quality voice with constantly audio drops etc, I had to move the Vonage mode before the TimeCapsule (recommed config by Vonage anyway).

Cheers,

marc

Thanks for the notes in here. Had to do a hard reset (button in back, but power was on), then used Airport Utility to reconfigure the thing. it shouldn't be this annoying 😟

Configuration dead as a brick.
ERROR: can't read configuration
Have still a connection to the net 'non wireless'
No time to check the powerbook.

Downgrading it shall be, thanks, have enough work already without faulty f*king firmwares.
greetz

I have had similar issues. All wired devices work fine, wireless do not work well. I can connect intermittently sometimes and when I do it is never for long.

I have since reverted to 7.3.2 but the wireless is still not working correctly. I have tried manually resetting the router in both 7.4.1 and 7.3.2 (which it is currently on). I have a MBP and a thinkpad on the network. Both devices were having the same problem connecting. I also tried setting the wireless network up under a different name with no encryption, still no love.

I had an Airport Express laying around (running 7.4.1) so I have it connected to the AEBS via wire, and the Express creates the wireless network. This seems to be working so far.

It seems like most people have had no problems after reverting to 7.3.2, is anyone else having difficulty after reverting?

Hey, glad the hard reset worked for you. I did a hard reset 4 times and was having issues (only on my mac oddly my pc;s were connecting fine) so i called for help assuming it my macbook pro. Anyway, my channel was set to automatic and the apple dude had me change it to channel 3. My MB and iphones continued to drop connection... i followed other's advise and went back to prior version and now all is working like a charm again! Clearly the last update is what caused the issues. Hopefully they will figure it out

Yes!

I did the upgrade, then back downgrade (to 7.3.2), but I have noticed that TC performance seems to deteriorate over time.....its lightning quick when I first boot it up or update a setting, but slows down substantially (as measured by www.speed.io) after an hour or so.

Holding "option" while clicking on the airport icon in the menu bar shows no change to signal strength (around mid-60's) or (I think - I'm at work at the moment) transmit speed (I seem to recall around 300) over this hour, but throughput (loading web pages tec) is down markedly......

Haven't had time to do a through search to work out what's going on yet, but feeling I may need to do a hard reset and setup again.....

I've done a hard reset, reverted to 7.3.2, and it still hasn't worked. It at least recognizes the router under the Airport menu, but it won't connect wirelessly. I don't know what to do! I hope Apple gets their act together and fixes this pronto! I've had nothing but issues since I bought the AEBS six months ago. May need to call it a wash and just move on....but not to another AEBS!

tonight i "upgraded" back to 7.3 and now i have been listening to music for over 4 hours without any dropouts to my AEX's....

Help me out here! How can I downgrade if none of my machines see the airport at all? it's as if I don't even have one out there right now, and I've done the reset already with no results. Right now I have a paperweight! ugh!

Can you see it if you connect directly using an Ethernet cable?

-dan

Keep trying (preferably via Ethernet cable). I did the hard reset and re-set-up last night (too early to tell if its fixed my speed problems) but it took 3-4 tries (resets, and reboots of the MacBook I was using) to enable the TC to be "seen".....but it eventually was.

Still no fix? Come on now, Apple...

me too, thank you apple for ruining the only christmas present i GOT! APPLE could AT LEAST be the ones posting some kind of article on how to revert back, NOT its customers!!!!!

by the way, in my case, it says i'm still running the 7.3.2 version and i NEED to update but it won't recognize it's even there even though it says "airport utility found an airport extreme with 802.1n (gigabit ethernet)" and it's getting stuck after clicking ANY of the available buttons....manual setup does nothing, continue does nothing, trying to actually update to the crappy firmware also ends in the same error messages everyone else is getting....to check my internet connection even though it's already there. i can still connect to the internet, only after i unplug everything and plug it back in, plus i tried to reset and i don't think that worked either, it defaulted and was fine for a few minutes but then the internet didn't work at all, and then it went back to my private settings again. anyway, so reverting back seems it would do nothing for me, because i actually AM running the previous version and it's still giving me the same error messages telling me to check the connection!