Airport Extreme generation?

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Airport Extreme generation?

I have an AE hooked up to all PC's (2 Win7, 1 Win8). How do I tell what generation my AE is running? I just purchased it last week at Best Buy.

Sullfam

Airport Extreme-OTHER, Windows 8

Posted on Jun 21, 2015 8:43 AM

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LaPastenague

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Jun 21, 2015 5:18 PM in response to Sullfam1

If you bought an extreme last week and it is tall.. (other than refurbished you will not get a flat one). It is Gen6.

Only the Gen6 AE looks like this.. it also has the model number on the base in microscopic print.

A1521

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Jun 22, 2015 3:02 AM in response to LaPastenague

Great....thanks. it works great I love disappointed about the five gigahertz. Seems like it's very fast if you're close to it.

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jackell

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Jul 5, 2015 5:03 PM in response to Sullfam1

acording to Consumer Support Specialist. & a supervisor tech. That the generation 6 Apple Airport Extreme cannot be set up properly on a Windows device.

Because this offer is updated Apple is chosen to not update the software to support generation 6 hardware.

Therefore it must only be set up with a Mac device.

so u might want to return it i have one and ya the 5 ghz band keeps dying this is the 3third replacement and 4th unit

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