Apple Releases AirPort Utility 5.4.2

I just installed it, although, I wasn't having any problems with my Airport Extreme Base Station before.

The Mac version requires OS X 10.4 or later, while the Windows version requires Vista or XP Pro SP2 or better.

Really? It won't work on XP Home?

always nice to see Airport Updates. My home network (Extreme + Express WDS, 802.11g) is rock solid. Most reliable routers I've owned. I've been jonesing for the dual-band Extreme. It has 2 LAN ethernet ports available to connect my AppleTV and Roku box, instead of the 1 LAN port on my old Snow Extreme base station. That would ease some traffic on the wireless portion of the network.

I'm beginning to think we'll see some nifty iPhone/Airport integration in iPhone OS 3.0 .... like calls routed through WiFi (a la VoIP) instead of 3G when you're within range of designated Airport networks.

Awesome. Now, if I could just figure out how to stop my external drive (Air Disk) from constantly going into sleep mode, preventing the system from recognizing it right away...

I'm beginning to think we'll see some nifty iPhone/Airport integration in iPhone OS 3.0 .... like calls routed through WiFi (a la VoIP) instead of 3G when you're within range of designated Airport networks.

Would call minutes on an Airport Wi-Fi network would still count against your monthly AT&T allotment? Would AT&T allow alternative voice calling to circumvent their network and therefore their profit system? I suppose this is what Skype does...

Awesome. Now, if I could just figure out how to stop my external drive (Air Disk) from constantly going into sleep mode, preventing the system from recognizing it right away...

Have you told your mac to mount the drive at start up? What drive is it?

Would call minutes on an Airport Wi-Fi network would still count against your monthly AT&T allotment? Would AT&T allow alternative voice calling to circumvent their network and therefore their profit system? I suppose this is what Skype does...

In my opinion, calls made on WiFi should not count against your plan, much like how data services are transferred to WiFi instead of 3G with the current iPhone OS. It takes call traffic off the cellular network which is helpful to AT&T. And for the consumer, signal strength and voice quality would presumably be better on WiFi than 3G.

Heck, AT&T provides a fair number of DSL lines anyways, I'd like to see their partnership with Apple extend to Airport devices. Imagine signing up for DSL and having an Airport router provided instead of some D-Link/Linksys garbage. Ok, now I'm just dreaming.

Have you told your mac to mount the drive at start up? What drive is it?

Oh... I'm not sure how that works.

Basically, I have a 1TB external drive (Seagate) plugged into the USB port of my AirPort Extreme, and set up as an AirDisk. I have my 600GB iTunes library on that external drive, and my iMac and MacBook Pro both setup to point to it.

It works perfectly when the drive is awake and spinning... but it goes to sleep after 5mins of inactivity, and sometimes the only way I can get to to spin back up is if I physically browse to the disk in Finder and drill down a few levels on it.

It's a real pain in the ass when I crash for the night, grab my apple remote, fire up Front Row and go to start an episode of House or Californication... only to have it say that it can't find the files. Then I got to get out of bed, quit Front Row, open up Finder, etc etc...

I think maybe the March Airport update disabled my dell mini 9s ability to see my airport extreme and my macbook. It's weird because it worked fine running XP until the time I ran the update using my Macbook in early March and from then on my mini 9 won't see the Airport Extreme and I can no longer share my itunes library with my mini9. After I ran into these problems I installed Ubuntu on it and even now that I've hackintoshed it, the Airport Extreme doesn't show up as an available wireless point and no shared library. It shows up fine for my macbook, my iphone and for a Lenovo work laptop running Vista and a Dell 1530 running Windows 7 RC and I know the network isn't set to hidden or any other setting that should be doing this. I've triple checked and all the sharing settings are correct and the airport settings look right. Baffled in the Bay Area

Oh... I'm not sure how that works.

Basically, I have a 1TB external drive (Seagate) plugged into the USB port of my AirPort Extreme, and set up as an AirDisk. I have my 600GB iTunes library on that external drive, and my iMac and MacBook Pro both setup to point to it.

It works perfectly when the drive is awake and spinning... but it goes to sleep after 5mins of inactivity, and sometimes the only way I can get to to spin back up is if I physically browse to the disk in Finder and drill down a few levels on it.

It's a real pain in the ass when I crash for the night, grab my apple remote, fire up Front Row and go to start an episode of House or Californication... only to have it say that it can't find the files. Then I got to get out of bed, quit Front Row, open up Finder, etc etc...

Yes. I have an Iomega external connected to my AP Extreme an run wireless Time machine backups and have my movie library in iTunes connected to Apple TV. It can be a real pain to get things all connected again, especially the movie folder being recognized on the Apple TV once things have been disconnected. Hope this may fix some of those issues