Do I need Airport Extreme FW update?

I use Airport Express as a transmitter for wireless LAN. I have airport cards in all three computers and the network works fine. I do not have physical airport base station.
I have updated the Airport Express with new firmware without problem.
In airport utility I do show base station which can be configured although there is only Airport extreme card.
When I tried to update Airport Extreme firmware no base station showed up to be updated.
Am I correct assuming that I don't need the Airport Extreme firmware update since I don't have the physical base station and the network is run from Airport Express?
Milan

I use Airport Express as a transmitter for wireless
LAN.
That is an Airport Express Base Station (AX) and will show up in Airport Admin Utility as a Base Station with whatever name you have given it (hopefully not Airport extreme card!).
That's similar but different from the Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS).
Am I correct assuming that I don't need the Airport
Extreme firmware
Yes. The Express should be listed in Admin and when selected show at the bottom Apple Base Station V6.3.

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