Mac OS 10.8.1 and airport express

I recently upgraded to 10.8.1 and my airport has been kind of fussy so I reset it and tried re-installing the utility, but it says that Mac OS 10.8.1 isn't supported so I can't install it. Is there anything I can do?

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The article linked below details a number of steps that can help get Continuity working correctly with your iPhone and your Mac Mini.
Get help using Continuity with iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite
http://support.apple.com/en-us/TS5458
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I have an AirPort Extreme acting as a wireless base station, connected to a BT router by ethernet.
Then the correct setting for Connection Sharing on the AirPort Extreme would be "Off (Bridge Mode)".
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Hi,
just received a new mac book pro, time capsule and airport express. I already had a older imac (Early 2008).
my goal is to connect everything in a wifi at the highest possible speed. The airport express servers also as a itunes connection to my stereo.
I followed basic instruction, all is working except that I can't have the speed a 5GHz (I verify the speed by holding the alt key and clicking on the wireless icon in the menubar) I have n but at 2.4GHz.
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This looks like you held down the "option" key while you clicked on the Airport icon at the top of your screen.
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R

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It sounds like you have the basic configuration covered correctly.
You might want to check some settings on the TC:
Wireless Mode would be create a wireless network
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The AX should be set to "extend a wireless network"
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As my english isn't too good I made a screenshot to show you what I mean.
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luvs2spooge wrote:
This would be really useful as at present I need the apple remote to control track selection and play/pause, but another remote to control volume.
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I guess I need to try and find out what my bottleneck is. It could be:
(1) My laptop connecting to my network wirelessly
(2) My Airport Express connecting to my network wirelsssly
(3) Both
Just thinking out loud here: your suggestion sounds like it would address (2) - if that's sufficient then my problem is solved. However, I do know that if I connect my media drive to the MBP via USB, but still have wireless connections for the MBP and Airport Express, I can get decent streaming performance. So perhaps I should try temporarily connecting the Airport Express and TC with a really long Ethernet cable to see if that is good enough when the laptop is still connected wirelessly, in which case I could then go the Ethernet powerline route.
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I had a Linksys before I purchased the airport extreme. My airport express joined the Linksys network for the purpose of airtunes. This worked flawlessly from day one.
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I chose this option thinking that since it is an apple product it would take over everything and work. My airport express had origianlly been set to join my old Linksys network. Since the airport extreme took over this configuration it should work.
Apple stated many times that there seemed to be a conflict and kept asking me about the placement of my airport extreme.
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Can someone please point me in the right direction.
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