Apple Time Capsule MB277LL/A 802.11n 1TB 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 MB277LL/A 802.11n 1TB Network Backup Hard Drive Reviews
I succeeded to do that only by Ethernet. Design great as usual with apple. Just a little remark, and I was not the only one, I did not succeed to connect the time capsule to my actual router by wifi. Excellent product.
Seller: infinite surplus. My credit card was charged & the prodcut was never delivered, seller claims he will issue refund but I have not heard from him in a while.
I turned TC off, the powered up the second iMac - did same and turned TC off on it. I then shutdown the Comcast modem (it carries VoIP, Cable TV and Broadband) plus Time Capsule, and both iMacs - completely. The iMac19 took about 4 hours. I made sure the Comcast modem back-up batteries were removed as the internal electronics have to be completely drained. Then, I powered up the Comcast modem and allowed all lights to sequence on. All is running perfectly.
At this point Airport 5.3 recognized the Time Capsule. for at least 5 minutes. I upgraded the OS on my iMac 21 and my wife's iMac19 from Tiger to Leopard (10.5.3) then immediately removed my old Linksys wireless router and installed a new 1TB Time Capsule. I am very pleased with the product. Then I powered up one iMac. At this point I went back to my iMac21 and turned TC ON and allowed it to backup the drive which took about 8 hours.
Waited 5 minutes, then powered up the Time Capsule and waited about 5 minutes for the front panel light to turn green.
I am the proud owner of this $485 paperweight. I will now be checking what my return options are. Now the Mac won't recognize that anymore either. Another hour on the phone with support whose answer for everything is a reset and closing and opening the Airport utility, I gave up and tried to revert back to my Linksys router.
If you are not an IT Pro who can troubleshoot complex things yourself, don't buy this because it doesn't talk to Macs very well and the support people are not helpful. I spent an hour on the phone with a distracted support person who got it working. Following the poorly written directions did not result in a connection. Thirty minutes later it stopped working. So, not only did the Time Capsule fail to work as advertised, it poisoned my connection with my old wireless router.
I tried to set up today; converting from a Linksys Wireless Router connected to cable modem.
So all along you have been operating with a false sense of security, which may have kept you from making smaller, reliable backups onto hard disks. Then it began to fail, unable to connect with my computer. The problem with using a Timecapsule is that it provides you a greatbut FALSEsense of security. This product is therefore really a menace, worse in many ways than not backing up at all.
I had one for months and it always seemed to be working great, backing up my data every hour. Tech support will tell you to wait for hours and try backing up again, but if Time Machine doesn't "fix itself", they only have one solution: reset the time machine, which means ERASE all your data. Apparently this happens quite frequently. The problem is that Apple techs really have no understanding of this product themselvesit's the ultimate black boxno one knows really what its doing or how long it should take.
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