Setting up an Airport Express on Mountain Lion

The old style Airport Expresses are amazing and have been around a long time, they are great for extending your home network and also great for setting up impromptu networks when travelling.

However, as of Mountain Lion the Airport Utility (which is now pretty dumbed down) doesn’t support them which is kind of lame – I guess when the devices once had an expected life of 18 months that isn’t much of a surprise.

There is however still a solution, AirPort Utility 5.6 for Mac OS X Lion, which of course you can’t install on Mountain Lion until you find these excellent instructions.

From frustrated to happy in the space of 5 minutes, now I can get this Tiger running Mac Mini from 2006 back online alongside the new Mac Book Air that replaces it.

Now I just need to see if I can set the second one up for my in-laws too so they can get iPlayer on the TV :)

Day 6: Fernlee Reservoir

Today we went for Lunch at the excellent Swan in Kettleshulme followed by a lovely walk around the Fernlee Reservoir.

Day 5: Longshaw

Today we went on two walks on the Longshaw Estate with a trip to The Maynard for lunch in between.

Day 4: Cottage Views

When we got back to our cottage we went for a walk along the hilltops from the cottage



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