Apple AirPort 3.1.1 Updater is Out

and available for download via the Software Update preference panel and as a standalone installer.

New to Airport 3.1.1:

• Continued performance improvements between wired and wireless clients
  
• Improved handling of multicast traffic on LANs
  
• Provides consistent DMZ/Default Host behavior with NAT/DHCP base station configurations
  
• Support for selecting NAT/DHCP alternate addressing when accessing base station via the PPP dial-in feature
  
• Improved performance when NAT leases are renewed for the base station
  
• Improved support for Traditional Chinese Input Method (TCIM) in the AirPort Admin Utility
  

New AirPort Extreme Base Station features:

• Compliant with the final IEEE 802.11g specification
• Base station Interference Robustness, which provides improved performance when 2.4GHz devices like cordless phones and wireless video distribution system cause significant interference with the AirPort network.
  
• Automatic channel selection allows the base station to find the most appropriate channel to use whenever it is restarted.
  
• Simpler Wireless Distribution System (WDS) setup experience in AirPort Admin Utility
  
• Administrators have the ability to set the DHCP range on their base station when NAT is on
  
• Performance improvements between wired and wireless clients.
  

New AirPort Extreme client features:

• Compliant with the final IEEE 802.11g specification
  
• Client side Interference Robustness

We downloaded and installed the updater on two PowerBooks with Apple Extreme and a G4 Cube with standard AirPort. The updates went fine and work with our snow AirPort Base Stations. [Dana Baggett]