Restoring 5.1.1 without upgrading to iOS 6

I want to restore my 5.1.1 iOS.  Is there a way to do that without upgrading to iOS 6?

If you have not yet installed iOS 6, and you have an iOS 5 still on your computer, then you can restore your iPhone with iOS 5 -- I think the help above assumed you had already installed 6 and wanted to step back down to 5 (that is not possible via "standard methods", and is a violation of the TOU here).
So yes if you still have iOS 5 on your computer you can restore to iOS 5 as long as you haven't updated to 6 -- no requirement to update to iOS 6 if you haven't done so yet.  If you do not have iOS 5 on your computer, then you won't be able to download it from Apple.  There are other sources to get iOS 5 if you Google that, then you should be able to restore to that version as long as what you saved to your computer is the same (or later) version of iOS 5 that you're using now.
I've updated to iOS 6 and have had no troubles at all, but I won't try to sell you on updating.

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