The Apex classic does not have wifi capability. People are using the wifi dongle to make it wifi capable. I did try updating the FW on my apex classic over wifi dongle and it worked too.....
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WiFi updating "can" work...the fear is you lose the connection during the update, to the point where the loaded firmware becomes corrupt.