
However, it is with great disappointment that we report that since 2011, either by a deliberate move or an oversight, Apple has dropped support for a vast range of its previous Apple Airport devices.Īirport Utility 5.6 is the last version of Airport Utility that maintained support for Apple Airport Snow, Airport Extreme built prior to January 2007 and 1st generation Express. All subsequent versions of Airport Utility no longer communicated with the above mentioned models of Apple wireless access points and routers.

Since the first Mac OS 10.0, Cheetah, up until Mac OS 10.7 Lion, Apple has meticulously ensured that all versions of their Airport Utility remained backward compatible to all their previously produced range of Apple Airport devices. This formed a perfect union, where Apple Airport devices were incomplete without Airport Utility. The Airport Utility has traditionally been located in the /Applications/Utility/ folder across each Mac OS X release.

At time of writing the Airport Utility 6.3.2 (6.3.1 on Mac OS 10.8.5 Mountain Lion) is the latest version of the main administration tool that enables Mac users to communicate with their Apple wireless access points and routers.
