Apple WiFi devices, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th generation

Seems like Apple's 1st. generation devices are more reliable than 3.rd generation products. It would be somehow nice if I don't have to restart the "main magic apple box" to re-connect my TC again to the airport network.

I mean, I don't have my TC "on & powered" all the time. So, if I turn it on, it should automatically re-connect to the network without the need to restart the main airport device. After more than 10years Apple Support "for free". This should work.

Thank you Bob, but I mostly have already a "direct line" to the developers. 😁

Maybe you should forward that question to the "Devcon-Level-Zero" of the Apple board.

I jsut love Apple management and sales tactics.

If the management says, you, the user are only allowed to update your iApps if you

install Maverick. The user follow and that's "the community".

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I still can't figure out why my TC is only connecting when I restart the main base

station. If I only restart the TC, it does not re-connect to the airport network.

Maybe another firmware update? 😕

Ok, problem solved. Seems like O2 Germany is doing a better job than 1&1 Internet AG.

Since Apple takes a lot of care about "energy efficient hardware" ... (http://www.apple.com/environment/;https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/environment.html) ... I would suggest to include a sleep function in all WiFi hardware devices (Apple Airport Extreme, Express, TV, TimeCapsule) that shuts down the device after a user specified time frame for inactivity.

If so, I suggest the following issue:

So, I added a PC user to my Airport device, but ... all configurations are well set up, but the user is not able to connect under Windows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZWaX1g_2SSQ#t=4282

Answers? (Btw, this is education) Or is this state going to last for next decades?

I tried to plug-in my plug & play USB surfstick into my Appe Extreme WiFi device to automatically share my internet connection with all my other Wifi devices and to be geographically independent, but it didn't work. (I could of course buy one USB surfstick for each iMac, Macbook and seperarte SIM cards for every mobile device, but ... does this make sense? And how do I share my files over filesharing? So many questions and so many possibly difficult and complicated solutions. Life's hard.)

The "art to think like a child" without the need to read complicated manuals. How "childish" I am ... tz tz ... you are absolutely right ... silly me.

(The USB port only supports printing, not scanning, even though it's the same hardware. They should mention that as well in the "Specifications". It is a software related problem, not a hardware problem.)

> If you would like to have "scan", "copy", "maintenance" and other functions supported at the USB port of the AirPort......then it is your printer manufacturer who must provide that software....not Apple. <

I am the "user". I use Apple's built-in technology printer dialog menu which says "Add printer" and me as the "iUser", I have absolutely no idea which of the software companies delivers which part or component of a software to make it working.

We had times where the "iUser" had to install seperately driver software (as Windows user do). Now we have a built-in printer dialog under OSX which works fine if I plug the printer directly to the Mac or via WiFi. If I plug it into the Airport Extreme USB port, the scan function is no longer available even though it is the same software and the same USB cable standard. Thus, in concern of the Airport Extreme, is this a "hardware" or "software" issue?