Which airport utility do I need?

Okay a bit confused. I have a Time Capsule connected to an older version Airport Express (single band). I need to make some changes to the Airport Express. On my MBP 13" running 10.8.1 I have Airport Utility 6.1. I can reach the Time Capsule without issue. I see the Airport Express listed but it tells me that this version of Airport Utility does not support this base station and I need to download and use Airport Utility 5.6.
I have tried to download and install Airport Utility 5.6 and 5.6.1. Both give me the same error that "The version of OSX on this disk is not supported". So is there no way to get to the settings of the older Airport Express on Mountain Lion 10.8.1?

So is there no way to get to the settings of the older Airport Express on Mountain Lion 10.8.1?
Best to configure the AirPort Express using another Mac or PC that will run AirPort Utility 5.6.
Otherwise, you could try an "unsupported"** method using a special utility like Pacifist to manually extract the AirPort Utility 5.6 applicaton so that you can move it into the Utilities folder on your Mountain Lion machine.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1167965/mountain_lion_and_the_ancient_airport_ba se_station.html
**at your own risk, of course

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Tap General
Tap About
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Using Snow Leopard you should definitely use AU 5.5.3. Later versions won't work.
If it is not being recognized, yes it's another problem. Perform a "hard reset" and attempt to establish contact with it again:
Resetting an AirPort Base Station or Time Capsule FAQ
Press and hold the reset button with a pen or pencil until you see the status light (LED) start to flash amber rapidly, which should occur after about five seconds.
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I have a imac g3 with mac os x 10.1.What airport card will i need?
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Hi,
I have an issue with Airport Utility (6.3.2) and a Time Capsule in my local network. This is happening at work where I have an iMac connected to the local LAN via an Ethernet connection. Wireless airport is switched off. When I open Airpot Utility, however, it shows my computer connected to a Time Capsule somewhere in my local network. See the image below.
None of my colleagues, nor the system administrator, knows to whom that Time Capsule belongs to nor were it is located. If I go to System Preferences > Network and I disable the Ethernet port ("Configure IPv4", select "Inactive") my internet connection is gone, but Airport Utility still shows the Time Capsule as connected to my iMac.
The only manner in which Airport Utility will show the Time Capsule disconnected is by unplugging the Ethernet cable.
So, I have a few questions because I could not find the answers anywhere and my system administrators have no idea what is going on (they are specialised in Windows environments):
1) The fact that Airport Utility displays a green light on the Time Capsule does it mean it is connected to my computer? If so, how can I disconnect it? Clicking on the Time Capsule icon I am asked for a password I obviously don't know. So I cannot acess its configuration pane.
2) How do I know if there is any data traffic between my computer and the Time Capsule? I cannot find out its IP or MAC addresses (Airport Uitility will not show them to me).
3) Is it possible that the internet traffic of the owner of the Time Capsule is being re-routed through my computer? My internet connection is indeed more unstable and slower than that of my colleagues (using Windows or Linux) but I can't figure out why.
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iMac 21" (Late 2012, iMac13,1)
Mac OS X (10.9.5)
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1. It isn't connected, but Airport Utility sees in on the network.
2. There shouldn't be any data traffic unless you initiate it.
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Problem: I have inherited 2 Power Macs and one Mac Pro, none of which have wifi capability.
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Yes. See above.
and do i have a built in antenna?
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If other than an Airport card is acceptabl;e, these work better & have better Range...
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http://eshop.macsales.com/item/IOGear/GBU421/

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Only one variant of the PowerMac G4 could use the faster Airport Extreme Card. The rest used the original Airport card that is pretty slow.
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USB PCI adaptor:
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