I have an old Airport Extreme (the dome-shaped one) that I was using as a fallback network at the office. I now have an additional office with no network, so I brought the AE to the new office to set up. I wanted to reconfigure it with a different name and password, but upon trying, I get a message that it can’t be done with Airport Utility 6 and that I would need to use Airport Utility 5. Aside from not knowing how to downgrade an app to a previous version, I’m not sure I’d want to. Is there another way to do this?
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How Do I Configure an Old AirPort Extreme?
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No need to downgrade. You can have both Airport Utility and Airport Utility 5 on your Mac together. Think of them as independent apps.
If you had Airport Utility 5 before, then you may still have it now. Look for it. If it isn't there, then you can download it easily.
Apple has it for you right here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1998
When I tried to install it, I was told it would not run on my version of OS X.
I downloaded both Airport Utility 5.6 and Airport Utility 5.6.1. In both cases, when I ran the installer package, I was told the version of Mac OS X on this volume is not supported.
That's very strange. Not sure why it would say that. I just confirmed that AirPort Utility ran fine on my Mac Pro with Mountain Lion.
The Airport Utility Installer for 5.6x will not work on Mountain Lion.
This is the method I used. The UnPkg app worked just fine.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1167965/mountain_lion_and_the_ancient_airport_base_station.html
Here is a link to the official Apple procedure.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4172563?start=0&tstart=0
Be certain to download 5.6.1 for use on Mountain Lion - not sure why, but some folks think that is important. (The Apple link, contains a link to version 5.6.1)