AIRPORT UTILITY 6.3.1 HOW TO
AIRPORT UTILITY 6.3.1 SOFTWARE

With the old Airport Extreme in the same room, powered up that unit if you have not done so. Airport Utility restart is an important check that what this program is displaying on your computer screen is up to date. I really recommend that during this process you realize that Airport Utility may NOT display recent changes unless you quit the application and then restart it. On your computer that you will be using to set up the wireless system, turn OFF the Airport Utility if you have it running. (This is the reason cable companies tell you to power down your router and modem for at least a minute to do a reset.) The resting period is necessary for all the internal capacitors to drain and thus end any power to the device. Unplug the child or Airport Extreme for now and let it rest of at least a minute before applying power. This will make setting this unit up much easier for you. Put the child Airport Extreme in the same room as the Airport Time Capsule and be able to view the LED lights on both units. Later on, after we are finished, you can move the child unit away to extend the system coverage. Get them close to one another for this set up process. Obviously, you need both units to “see” one another. We are going to set this older unit up wireless. You do NOT have to connect the old Airport Extreme by Ethernet cable to get this to work (you could and it would be a bit more reliable for not dropping some packets). It came up with a whole new wireless name which was a bit confusing for a while but I guessed as to what was happening and just sat back sipping my tea waiting for the boot up process to finish and provide the name I specified. I was later able to view the old Airport Extreme “come up” from a device reset. My concern was that the old Airport Extreme was on another channel showing to the world that I was using THREE. NOTE: The new Airport Time Capsule does put out TWO channels. Channel 149 = new Airport Time Capsule (No one in my area was using 5 GHz).WiFi Explorer shows that my laptop is receiving 18 separate WiFi systems! I want to make all my routers output on the SAME channels so I would not step on other systems with radio interference. You do not want to do that! You want to minimize the spectrum your WiFi is using. I found out that my two wireless routers were putting out signals on THREE channels. This application is excellent! I recommend this application because it really helped me set up my wireless system. I strongly recommend that you buy WiFi Explorer, an application from the Apple Store. Following are some notes that might help if your willing to jump in to some frustration. Let me tell you that getting this extension to the network going took some time because I did not have a clue what I was doing. I got my best information at this web site: It took a while but I was able to add the Extreme to the Time Capsule with a wireless connection.

I had nothing to loose so I tried anyway. The Apple sales man told me it could not be done, saying some computer chip was missing. I did not want the old Airport Extreme to just collect dust so I decided to attempt to add it to the new network but down stream to extend the WiFi range. My intent was to still use the older but extremely reliable Airport Extreme as an extension to the new system.

My old Airport Extreme model is IC: 579C-A1143.īackground: With my purchase of a new MacBook Air, I also purchased a Airport Time Capsule.

Airport Utility version I am using is 6.3.1 (631.4).

My computer operating system is 10.8.4.

You should check to see if the equipment you posses is the same or similar to the WiFi system I am describing.

AIRPORT UTILITY 6.3.1 SOFTWARE

My point is that you should take care as your circumstances may be different and procedures may change, especially as time proceeds.Īlso, this setup requires quite a few steps, some computer knowledge and maybe some ability to figure out work around solutions as your environment, equipment and software might not be the same. As time goes on this tutorial will become out of date due to system software changes, Airport Utility changes and hardware upgrades. My Extreme also included an internal hard drive, called Airport Time Capsule.

AIRPORT UTILITY 6.3.1 HOW TO

Disclaimer: The following how to explanation intent is to provide you my road map for incorporating an older Airport Extreme and pair it with a new Airport Extreme with the new 802.11ac technology.

Airport utility 6.3.1