Older AirPort with OSX10.8.3

I found a old APE at Goodwill for $5, but when I tried to configure it with Airport Utility 6.2 all I got was that this APE is not supported, and come to the support forum on Apple's website, where there is no information. Very frustrating. Here I read that you need the older Airport Untility 5.6.1. So I found that on Apple's website and downloaded it. Except that it says that it will not install on OSX10.8.3. Well I was having none of that! You can install it and as far as the APE I set up can tell it works fine. Here is what you do. Download the AirPortUtility5.6.1.dmg and mount it. Move the AirPortUtility.pkg to your desktop. Right click on the AirPortUtility.pkg and open it with any un-zip program you have, I used The Unarchiver, do not open it with Installer! If you have extracted it properly you will now have a folder called AirPortUtility on your desktop, I can't remember if I had to authenticate or not at this point but you may have to. Inside the folder is another file called AirPortUtility.pkg, right click on it and choose Show Package Contents. There should be 4 files, Bom, PackageInfo, Payload and Scripts. Payload is the one we want, double click on the Payload file and it should extract, creating a folder called Payload 2 2. In this folder navigate to Applications,Utilities. There you will find the AirPort Utility application, rename it something like AirPort Utility Old, and then drag(or copy) it to your Utilities folder, it won't work if it is anywhere else. Double click, ignore all the update messages, and setup older AirPort devices! When you are done you can just trash the AirPortUtility folder and the AirPortUtility.pkg. Hope this helps someone!

This worked like a charm! Many thanks!

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