Apple Releases Airport Extreme Update 2008-004

The 2008-003 update blocked out my AirPort on both ethernet and wireless unless I turned off the OS X firewall. How that ever made it out the door is beyond me....pity testing on Apple's behalf.

Good news is the 2008-004 update has fixed it all, and everything is in working order again.

This is the first time I've ever done a "wait and see" with an Apple update. Thankfully I read the comments before I installed this.

Thanks for the update on this update's working-ness.

my internet seems so much faster!!







...lol just kidding.

everythings normal.

seems normal to me.

...doesn't seem to have done anything. After I installed Update-003 I was getting 2 bars or less, and I thought it was my router. So, I went into the router several times, and changed wireless channels. That worked for a few minutes, but then it went back to two bars. I installed Airport Extreme Update 2008-004 and it seems to have solved my issues. Also, something worth mentioning is that I raised the transmit power on the router from 70 to 100 mW. The router is only about 45-50 feet away from where I use my laptop too...

Am I guessing right when I say that this update targets people with Broadcom chipsets? My brother has the MacBook from mid-2007 (2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo white), whereas mine is from late 2007 (2.2 GHz "Santa Rosa" White) and he's never had these problems. I believe those machines use the Atheros chipset.

(To double-check my assumption I just went to check my brother's System Profiler, but it doesn't seem to be labeled as to what chipset he's got. Then again, he's not fully updated (he's running on 10.5.2, and who knows what other stuff needs updating.).

With all that said, I seem to be running fine now, but if anything messes up I'll be sure to report back here to everyone.

wait a minute.
didnt we just have an update for this like yesterday or sumtin?!? and will this fix the problems im having ever since i did that update!??!

wait a minute.
didnt we just have an update for this like yesterday or sumtin?!? and will this fix the problems im having ever since i did that update!??!

I think  released Airport Extreme Update 2008-003 by accident. I think it was incomplete and they released Airport Extreme Update 2008-004 to compensate for it.

Apple no bakayarou-tachi!

EDIT: I was just reading about this same thing on TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) and someone points out that after installing Airport Extreme Update 2008-003, Network Utility did not display the model as "Wireless Network Adaptor 802.11 a/b/g/n". After installing this update it shows that once again.

I think  released Airport Extreme Update 2008-003 by accident. I think it was incomplete and they released Airport Extreme Update 2008-004 to compensate for it.

Apple no bakayarou-tachi!

hai! sou desu neeee..

well its not showing up on software updates yet.. hmm i guess i have to wait

This update replaces the firmware of the AirPort Extreme card on my MacBook Pro (Mid-2007).

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