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I went this route. Nightmare. The installer software has been removed for Mac and isn't available anywhere. Had to find a laptop running Windows 7 to get it up and running. It also won't be compatible with modern routers. 1/10 can not recommend.

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Yep. I was fortunate to have an old iLamp that can't handle the current version of the Airport Utility software, which doesn't support the older Airport Express (Mine are branded "AirMac," because I bought them in Japan) base stations.

You can get Airport Expresses on Goodwill for $5 to $10, but you need an old machine to set it up.

The current version of Airport Utility will see them in an extended network, and plot them on the network graph, but can't be used for configuration.

Eh? Are you talking about this https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1664?viewlocale=en_US&locale=... - also available for iOS?

It's still there. I have an Airport Extreme that very happily updated itself to support Airplay 2 a few months again

It no longer supports the original Airport Express, the one that can be had on Craigslist for $10.

Apologies.

There is (was?) a workaround to get the old Airport Utility management software to still work. But in the end I gave I and just replaced that old one with one of the more recent ones. (If anyone in Sydney .au wants the old one, shout out...)

I wasn't aware that recent versions of Airport Utility don't support the 802.11g Airport Express. That's annoying.

But why wouldn't it work with modern routers? As far as I know, even the newest WiFi routers still support 802.11g clients.

Might be mis-remembering, this was 4-5 years ago. Had to do some trickery to get it to see my network in the old version of Airport Utility.

What do you mean by "won't be compatible with modern routers"? Are you referring to the 802.11g? These devices had an ethernet port, IIRC. I'm sure I remember plugging mine into my network and not using its built-in wifi.

Yes, they have an ethernet port, but the goal of such a device (for me, where I don't have ethernet running to my speakers) is to stream music over wifi.

I know modern waps can disable 11a and 11b to make 11n (and later) faster, but I thought 11g was safe.

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