Apple Time Capsule MB276LL/A 802.11n 500 GB Network Backup Hard Drive
Introducing Time Capsule. Automatic wireless backup for your Mac. Time Capsule is a revolutionary backup device that works wirelessly with Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard. It automatically backs up everything, so you no longer have to worry about losing your digital life. Time Capsule is also a full-featured 802.11n Wi-Fi base station. Every computer in your house can work off a wireless network at blazing speeds. And they can back up wirelessly to the same Time Capsule.
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Apple Time Capsule MB276LL/A 802.11n 500 GB Network Backup Hard Drive Reviews
in summary the quality of this product has been an disappointment for me. the bad news is that all of the computers on my network (leopard or vista) randomly lose the router every couple of days. Many people on the apple forums recommend rebooting the router every week but i have had many linksys routers before this apple one and never once had to resort to that kind of action. the good news is that the hard drive / time machine part works well. it is extremely annoying and i am now at the point of having to spend money to replace the product as i cant take it anymore.
But that is exactly what we've done. We have 16 of these Time Capsules acting solely as remote backup drives. We've turned off all wireless and router capabilities. It's strange that wireless has become so ubiquitous that one would by a router like this and not use the wireless capabilities at all. Each machine has a static ip address and we connect to it for our Time Machine backups. Overall, the hardware has been magnificent and the "Airport Utility" makes it quite easy to configure the device.
I swapped out my old Apple Airport Extreme for this Time Capsule, left the network name and password unchanged and that was it. Except a couple things had changed. How cool is that. First, our network got lots faster. Second, now both of our 160GB MacBooks are always backed up on one hard drive, wirelessly and seemingly magically. No settings to update or anything. My desktop, and my wife's and my iPhones and MacBooks acted like nothing had changed.
While over time I might migrate network functions to Time Capsule (wireless network provision, printer sharing) I really do not want to have to completely re-configure my entire network just to use Time Machine. I expect that if you have just one Mac connected to the Internet then this is a fine product. At the moment I am 50/50 over whether or not to return this box to the store. However, if you already have a mature network setup with multiple devices connected and you do not wish to disturb your environment then it seems unnecessarily difficult to connect this device to your network. I have had to reboot my wireless access point several times since I put the infernal Time Capsule on my network. I've had my capsule for 24 hours and so far only one of the two Macs I'm backing up to it have backed up successfully. The Time Capsule configuration seems to be obsessed with setting up a wireless network.
Avoid this unit like the plague. The Apple support guy was a real tool.
Appalling. If you are looking for a reliable router, keep looking.
After insisting to speak to a supervisor and 1 week later, I finally convinced Apple to replace my TC. As soon as I got it, it was on Ebay.
He wanted me to pay to talk to him. 3 days after the 90 day warranty (phone support) the TC started overheating and slowing my connection.
Buy Dlink or Linksys, a product that's reasonably priced and well supported.
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