How To Install Apple Airport Extreme

How to install Airport Utility 5 if you lot have lost the original CD...

Airport Base Station
802.11n Aerodrome Extreme Base Station

The original version of this folio tin can be institute hither.

Airport Utility 5.0 which comes on the CD with the new 802.11n Aerodrome Extreme Base Station is not available to download.

Apple's reasoning I estimate is that you would take care of the CD.

Well it would seem that quite a few people have lost the original CD, or as is usually the problem, the CD is at a different location and the Mac they are using does not take the Aerodrome Utility installed.

The older Airport Admin Utility tin non exist used to configure the new 802.11n base station, so what do yous do.

Well it is possible to download the Airport Utility 5.1 update, nevertheless this will only install if you have 5.0 installed which brings u.s.a. back to square one.

The following solution should help:

Download the AirPort Base Station Update 2007-002 file from here.

Double-click AirPortBaseStationUpdate2007002.dmg to mount and brandish it'south contents.

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From the AirPortUtilityUpdate window, right-click on AirportUtility.pkg

Select Prove Packet Contents from the pop-up menu.

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In the AirportUtility.pkg window, double-click on the Contents folder to open it.

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In the Contents window, you should see the following files.

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Re-create Archive.pax.gz to the desktop or a folder.

Double-click on Archive.pax.gz

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This will expand the compressed archive.

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Which will create a new folder on your Desktop (or in the folder where you downloaded the dmg image), named Archive. The AirPort Utility will exist within this new folder.

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