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Reader Question: Graphite and Snow AirPort Extreme Base Stations

Posted 2009-09-16 08:01 in Product-Info by Matt Klein

Morgan wrote in following last week’s issue:

“Thanks for your Tech Tails contributions. I appreciate and enjoy them very much. I have a question and I hope you might know the answer. I would like to upgrade to Snow Leopard, but I think I read that the upgrade does not work with the Airport Utility that is related to my Airport Extreme Base Station. Is this true, and is it a concern? Seems to me that Apple would be smarter than this. As you can imagine, I don’t want to upgrade my computers and in the process lose my wireless connectivity.”

Morgan, the older “Graphite” (802.11b) and “Snow” (802.11 a/b/g) AirPort Extreme Base Stations commonly described as flying saucers or UFOs remain completely functional under Snow Leopard. Unfortunately, though, the AirPort Admin Utility specifically designed to administer these older devices does not work under Snow Leopard. There remain some applications that do not work under Snow Leopard, and this is the lone Apple application that’s incompatible.

Apple maintains a list of the few programs and devices that do not work under Snow Leopard. The list is shrinking daily, but I suspect the older AirPort Admin Utility will not be fully updated. It is Apple’s policy to support its hardware and software products for five years following discontinuation. The first-generation graphite base station was discontinued in November 2001, but the white “snow” models were only discontinued in 2007. Odds are any update to the Admin Utility will address compatibility with the newer models.

The full list can be found here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3258

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  1. Thanks for the notice about the Airport Extreme. I appreciate that it will still function but what does it mean that the Airport Administrator Utility will not function under Snow Leapard? What will a Mac user no longer be able to do? It may be painfully obvious to many people, but I would welcome a specific statement of what You will no longer be able to do with Airport Administrator Utility.
    Thanks.


    — mildred    2009-09-18 10:40    #

  2. With only one active mac on my home wireless network, my old Airport Snow is reliable and more than adequate. It still works fine with Snow Leopard but I can’t configure it as you’ve mentioned. I do hope Apple either updates the Admin Utility or stops manufacturing equipment which outlasts their software support life. One of these options isn’t good.


    — John P.    2009-11-16 12:16    #
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