AirPort Utility 5.6 vs. 6.0

How about advenced section in 5.6 which allow you to manage IP6, syslog, snmp and get information regarding who connected to you airport and it's performance?

I prefer to use 5.6 because it provide more advenced futures. I have Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station

(MD031LL/A)

Version of Airport utilities should chosen regarding your needs and your level of network understanding.

Hello,

I need Airport Utilities 5.6 or 5.6.1 for Mountain Lion, and when i tried to install it, both versions it said uncompatible with this software ... Any idea ? except manual extracting the software ?

Is there an Airport utilities 5.6 for Mountain Lion (all except 6.0) - I need all the functions Apple removed in 6.0

Thanks for answer

I need Airport Utilities 5.6 or 5.6.1 for Mountain Lion

Please start a new post for this as the previous 4 pages of this post are not relevant to Mountain Lion.

the short answer is yes, Airport Utility is available for Mountain Lion. At least I have it running on ML.

There is nothing available on the Downloads page for AirPort Utility 5.6 for Mountain Lion.

You likely already had AirPort Utility 5.6 installed on your Lion machine when you upgraded to Mountain Lion, correct?

5.6 won't install on Mountain Lion. You'll need a 10.7 machine

Not sure what you mean by "install".

I am running AirPort Utility 5.6 on Mountain Lion at this very moment.

interesting, when I downloaded 5.6 and opened the .pkg file I got a warning that "Airport Utility cannot be installed on disk. The version of Mac OS X on this volume is not supported"

Or did you have 5.6 installed prior to updating to Mountain Lion?

yeah I've had it installed since this split in cersions happened. So Apple is discontinuing the old version? Unfortunate.

One one machine, I simply copied the AirPort Utility 5.6 file over from another drive to the Applications folder in Mountain Lion. Runs just fine.

On the other machine, AirPort Utility was already installed under Lion, and it remained fine on the Mountain Lion update.

Haven't tried a file extractor program yet, but imagine that it would work as well.

To everyone which need old airport utilities, here is the link to ask, i created a new post, to not deviate the subject here, thanks to post on it :

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4141324

Same story here, i had to manual extrack Airport Utilities 5.6/5.6.1 from the install .pkg...

You can also copy it from your old Lion/Snow Leopard install...

I prefer from very far the Old tool Airport Utilities 5.6/5.6.1 it allow more possibilities and setting to my old 1st Generation Airport extrem access point... but sooner i will go for another router like a Netgear or something like that compatible with Polarcloud Tomato...

A few summary points to help folks getting buried in this long thread:

1) It's not clear whether Apple is discontinuing the v5.6.x line of the Airport Utility. What we do know is that the documentation for it is terrible and that Apple hasn't bothered to update the installer for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, at this point anyway. IMHO Apple would be mobbed with bad feedback if the 5.6.x line was killed because the v6.0 line does NOT offer full functionality, not at this point.

2) Versions 5.6 and 5.6.1 are essentially identical, despite the differences in the installers and lousy documentation. They both work fine on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

3) The best way to work around all the installer nonsense is to:

- a) Download the installer package.

- b) Crack open the installer package with the shareware utility Pacifist. Dig around inside the installer and drag out the actual application. Use it.

I'm successfully running both v5.6 and v6.1 on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

Same for me...