Time capsule painfully slow wifi

New time capsule , painfully slow wifi , cisco works lightning fast so the issue is with the TC. Looked at forums and I see it's a common isssue. Any ideas that actually work?

Download the free iStumbler app to examine the strength of your connection.
If it's not good, look for interference with another wireless device, cordless phone, microwave oven, etc. Turn them off temporarily; if you find an offender, move it farther away. See AirPort and Bluetooth: Potential sources of wireless interference for more.
Try different WIFI channels.

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Time capsule painfully slow under windows 7

I'm using a time capsule (latest gen, 3TB) with both a Mac and a PC. The Mac uses Time Machine to backup and things work great.
However, on my PC (Windows 7), the TC is mounted as a network mounted (drive Z), and if I simply try to drag and drop files from my PC to the TC, it's painfully slow. At least 10x slower than on the Mac.
As an example, copying 500MB takes about 10 hours...
Any suggestions on improving performance using TC on a Windows 7 machine?
Thanks.

Download the free iStumbler app to examine the strength of your connection.
If it's not good, look for interference with another wireless device, cordless phone, microwave oven, etc. Turn them off temporarily; if you find an offender, move it farther away. See AirPort and Bluetooth: Potential sources of wireless interference for more.
Try different WIFI channels.

1st generation time capsule painfully slow

I've been dealing with this issue for some time now. I've searched all over the internet for a solution, and I've yet to find anything that works. I'm hoping a Time Capsule expert may be able to help me sort this problem out.
I have a 1st generation, 1tb Time Capsule. I've had one since they first were released. Use already had one fail from the dreaded dead power supply issue that was affecting many 1st gens after reaching 18 months old. This one is less than a year old.
I have Verizon Fios with a blazingly fast Internet connection. When I plug directly in to my ISP's router via Ethernet, my connection is amazing. I realize that wifi connections are much slower than Ethernet, but what I've been dealing with lately is ridiculous.
I believe the problem lies with the Time Capsule. It's set to 801.11n, 5ghz only, maximum throughput (24mbps), WPA2 personal security, latest firmware. Wifi connections via the TC are great at first, but they seem to degrade as time goes by until I finally have to reboot the TC, then the speeds are back up to normal again for a while.
The problems also seem to arise whenever a computer is backing up to the TC. I understand that speeds might slow down while a backup is occurring, but I would expect that they would return to normal when the backup is complete. Unfortunately, the speeds often slow down so much that the backup never actually finishes, and often it comes up with an error saying that the disk is no longer available.
Trying to share a file between my macs is often impossible. Even a small file, say 5mb, can take minutes to transfer between to wifi-connected devices. Sometimes a TC reboot with fix this, other times it won't.
My setup is like this - Verizon router with wifi disabled, serving as the DHCP router for my entire internal network, connected via Ethernet to my Time Capsule and an Airport Express. The Time Capsule is set up in bridge mode and serves as the 802.11n wifi source for my newer wifi devices. The Airport Express is also set up in bridge mode and serves as the 802.11b/g wifi source for my older wifi devices.
Due to the nature of the Fios service, I can't have the Time Capsule set up as the DHCP distributer for the network. However, even when I didn't have Fios and the Time Capsule was set up as the dhcp distributor, I suffered from these slow connection issues.
Are the 1st generation TCs plagues with issues? Is it just time for me to get a new one?
Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

Unfortunately, you are experiencing one of the downsides to 5 GHz. That's because the higher frequency 5 GHz signals are much weaker than 2.4 GHz signals.
After all, you always have to give up something to gain something else. In the case of 5 GHz, you gain potential speed but in return, you must give up penetration power and distance capability.
In order to work well, 5 GHz signals need to almost have a line-of-sight relationship between devices. Unless you can achieve this, you will do much better to leave the Time Capsule running at the 802.11n (b/g compatible) 2.4 GHz Radio Mode and allow the Express devices to "extend" that network.
As for the location of the AirPort Express devices in an exended network, that is critical for best performance. That's because the Express can only "extend" the quality and bandwidth of the signal that it receives. Post back if you need a few more tips on how to find the best location for the AirPort Express devices.
Would the new airport extreme fix the problem?
Unfortunately, no.

HELP! Time Capsule painfully slow

OK, so I bought a new 1TB Time Capsule yesterday.
I installed it yesterday and during configuration, it copied over the profile from my old Airport Base Station.
My internet slowed down dramatically (1.5B per dsl reports) and I started my Time Machine backup before going to bed. When I woke up, it had backed up 18GB of 240GB!
When I came home tonight, I reset the unit and recreated my network from scratch manually.
My internet is back up to 4.2mb (per dsl reports again), but the backup speed is only about 500K/minute.
What am I doing wrong?!?!? If this is the true speed of TC, I feel very duped by Apple. There is no way this a viable wireless backup device at these speeds!

Just to offer you an example of one series of performance read/write testing of the Time Capsule (TC), the following is an excerpt from MacInTouch Special Reports for a speed comparison of the internal hard drive vs. a USB drive attached to the TC. This is just one example, others may show different results, but this should give you an idea of what could be expected for comparison to what you are experiencing.
"It's not a speed demon, but it is very consistent, yielding 10.2 MB/sec. for reads and 8.9 MB/sec. for writes in AJA Kona System Test, over a 5-GHz, 802.11n wireless connection from our Mac Pro. Over Gigabit Ethernet wiring, we saw 17.1 MB/sec. for reads and 12.6 MB/sec. for writes.
The external USB hard drive we tested was somewhat slower, with 16.7 MB/sec. reads and 8.9 MB/sec. writes over Gigabit Ethernet wiring. But, using the USB disk over 802.11n wireless was much slower, yet, than using the internal disk."
Even Apple recommends that the first Time Machine backup should be done with your Mac connected by Ethernet to the TC. (ref: Backing up with Time Capsule for the first time)

Time Capsule Painfully slow internet over wireless (not so over ethernet)

I dont know what it is, but when I use the TC over wireless, it is over 10 times slower than if I just stick an ethernet cable in my macbook. I get 50k/sec TOPS over wireless. I get 600-2MB/sec over the ethernet.
Im seriously using an ethernet cable right now because I cant stand it.
I have restarted the thing 50 times now. (modem too)
I have an N capable macbook.
I have time machine TURNED OFF
I have tried all different frequencies.
It is not just my macbook, but every wireless device on the system.
I had an N basestation I replaced, it was super fast.
My ethernet and airport settings are identical.
I have tried. all settings of B,G,N 2.4 and 5ghz.
I have tried interference robustness on and off.
It is not the internet going to it, and it is not the environment it is in as It is sitting in the exact same place my N base station was in.
I seriously hate this thing right now... And I am as big of an apple fan as they come.
Please help me!

I unplugged it again and plugged it back in again... and it seems to have worked.
Why it didnt before, and how long this will last is anyones guess.
I just wish it was as reliable as my previous N base station.

How do I use my time capsule as a wifi extender and still use as a backup in Time Machine

I purchased a new airport extreme and want to use my existing time capsule as a wifi extender in another part of the house. How do I set this up so that I can still use the time capsule as my backup (time machine) hard drive?

Hello BNOLTNER,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Please see the directions in the following article for configuring your extended network. Your Time Capsule will still be seen on the network, and may still be used as a backup destination.
Wi-Fi base stations: Setting up and configuring an extended wireless network (802.11n)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4259
Take care,
Alex H.

How is easy is to setup Time Capsule as a wifi router

How easy is it to setup Time Capsule as a wifi router?

The following would be the basic setup steps for the Time Capsule (TC):
Modem/Router Power ReCycling
o Power-off the Cable modem, TC, & computer(s); Wait at least 30 minutes.
o Power-on the Cable modem; Wait at least 15 minutes.
o Power-on the TC; Wait at least 5 minutes.
o Power-on the computer(s)
Either connect to the TC's wireless network or, temporarily, connect your computer directly (using an Ethernet cable) to one of the LAN ports of the TC, and then, using the AirPort Utility in Manual Mode, check these settings:
AirPort - Base Station
o Base Station Name: <whatever you wish or use the default>
o Base Station Password: (optional)
o Contact: (optional)
o Location: (optional)
o Set time automatically (optional)
o Time Zone: <select your time zone>
o Status Light: Always On (Default)
o Allow configuration over Ethernet WAN port (unchecked)
o Advertise configuration globally using Bonjour (unchecked)
AirPort - Wireless
o Wireless Mode: Create a wireless network
o Network Name: <whatever you wish or use the default>
o Allow this network to be extended (unchecked)
o Radio Mode: 802.11n (802.11b/g compatible)
o Channel: Automatic
o Wireless Security: None
AirPort - Wireless - Wireless Options
o Region: <select your region>
o Multicast Rate: 2 Mbps
o Transmit Power: 100%
o Create a closed network (unchecked)
o Use interference robustness (unchecked)
Internet - Internet Connection
o Connect Using: Ethernet
o Configure IPv4: Using DHCP
o IP Address: <provided by your ISP>
o Subnet Mask: <provided by your ISP>
o Router Address: <provided by your ISP>
o DNS Server(s): <provided by your ISP>
o Domain Name: <provided by your ISP>
o DHCP Client ID: (optional)
o Ethernet WAN Port: Automatic (Default)
o Connection Sharing: Share a public IP address
Internet - DHCP
o DHCP Range: 10.0 1.x
o DHCP Beginning Address: 10.0.1.2
o DHCP Ending Address: 10.0.1.200
o DHCP Lease: 4 hours
o DHCP Message: (optional)
o LDAP Server: (optional)
o DHCP Reservations: (optional)
Internet - NAT
o Enable default host at: (leave blank)
o Enable NAT Port Mapping Protocol (checked)
Once you have verified Internet access, I strongly suggest that you use wireless encryption (WPA or WPA2) to secure your network.

What is the time capsule's max wifi speed? e.g. 150mb

What is the time capsule's max wifi speed? e.g. 150mb

Depends on the model.
Latest Gen 4 are now 450mbps on 5ghz.. of course it will only get that with the right clients. Mostly you will get 300mbit if up close.
But all generations and all apple routers only support single channel on 2.4ghz so max speed is 150mbit..although the actual link speed is probably more like 130.
See
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4577/airport-extreme-5th-gen-and-time-capsule-4th- gen-review-faster-wifi-/4

Can you use Time Capsule with any wifi extender?

Can you use Time capsule with any wifi extenders?

No, since Apple designed their routers to only work with other Apple routers.
I suppose that it is possible that another brand might work, but since you won't know this until you try, it would be a good idea to have a clear understanding of the store's return policy before you decide to gamble.

Wifi with Time Capsule really slow

I have a brand new Time Capsule, macbook pro 13", and iPad (all of them less than a month old, purchased the same time). Everything work together great with the exception of my iphone 4. Using a download apps, if I download using 3G I get over 300kb/sec. Download using wifi, I get about 30kb/sec and sometime less. If I reset, I mean hard reset the time capsule and reconfigure it, I'll get amazing speed for a day or two on my iphone. Then it slowed down to crawl again. Using speedtest apps shows the speed is great at 8 to 9 mb/sec. I'm baffled.
I set my macbook pro to connect 5GHz, and the rest is automatic.
Any tips?

You have the dual "n" band enabled with your Time Capsule - the 5GHz band for your MBP, and the 2.4GHz band for your iPhone?
I have not experienced the same with my iPhone 4 when connected to my Time Capsule set up with dual band for my MBP and iPhone.

Time Capsule too slow with PLC

Hello.
Currently I have a wifi modem router (802.11g) Zyxel whose ports ethernet (10/100) have connected the following:
- Port 1 mac pro
- Port 2 NAS 2TB Raid 5 where have all the movies in HD (720p and 1080p), home videos, music, photos, etc..
- Port 3 PLC adapter Devolo dlan 200 AV http://www.devolo.com/consumer/7dlan-200-aveasy_starter-kit_product-presentation1.html?l=en
All this is in my home office.
In the bedroom of my oldest son, I have a PLC adapter which connects your PC and / or console. Also use a macbook by wifi.
In the room of my youngest son, another PLC adapter which connects your MacMini and / or console.
In the lounge have another PLC adapter that is connected to a multimedia disc DVICO TVIX M6500 http://www.tvix.co.kr/ENG/products/HDM6500.aspx
This disc I have configured to connect to the NAS and can see all the content (especially HD movies) smoothly cuts or breaks in the image and sound.
Now I buy a Time Capsule 1TB. Following instructions, I connected a Zyxel modem port to the WAN input of TC (I canceled the Zyxel wifi).
I connected to port 1 of the TC the mac pro, the NAS to port 2 and to port 3 the PLC adapter, but I have a problem set transfer rate:
From the lounge, when I connect the disk media and I want to watch any movie (even in PAL) to play me jumping on the image and sound. It is as if the ports were only a 10mb ethernet. They lack the data transfer rate (I tested on all three)
Interestingly, the TC wifi (802.11n) works properly and the macbook can see all the movies in HD without problems of jumps in the image (which with Zyxel wifi was impossible)
I've been looking in all possible configurations and find nothing.
The network works because I see all the computers, but is very slow.
Theoretically, the PLC adapter is transparent in an ethernet network and does not influence the rate of data transfer.
It is as if they were incompatible the TC Gigabit ports with the PLC adapter.
Any idea?
Greetings

chris_gmu wrote:
What I did was to connect an ethernet port of Time Capsule back to the ethernet port of my mac book pro but nothing changed. Still very slow in backupx
Yes, that's what I meant, sorry.
and my internet connection is unstable reqularly disconnecting...
That may be the main problem. Time Machine may be just an innocent victim.
A easy way to tell is to just disconnect from the Internet for a while, and see if the backups improve, via Ethernet. If not, be sure it's not still using WIFI -- turn WIFI off to force it to use Ethernet.
If it does improve, that would implicate something in your setup or connection to your DSL modem. That's out of my area of expertise, but there are some networking gurus here who can help.
If it doesn't improve greatly, see the green box in #D2 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting. Something there should fix it.

Time Capsule extremely slow recover

Hi and tnxs for reading.
Since my iPhoto Library has been corrupted, I am trying to test some old versions/backup by restoring them from my Time Capsule (2TB last version on the Apple Store), but unfortunately the process is extremely slow. My iPhoto Library is 35GB and the required time for the transfer is about 5 days!!
I did some tests: no prob with the WiFi: if I try to manually transfer a 1GB file on WiFi in the finder from my Mac to the TC disk it takes a few minutes. However, the iPhoto Library recover from TC is taking ages... any idea??

The iphoto library is a huge number of small files.. not one big file.
Wireless is extremely inefficient at handling the data stream plus all the back and forth file info required .. please use ethernet.
Simply plug in ethernet.. make sure you have a connection then turn wireless off.. If it stops the file transfer I am very sorry. You will need to start over most likely.
IPv6 can also help but you need it set correctly to link local only .. auto is not good enough.

How to put time capsule on new wifi network

Hi. I moved and now my wifi network name and password are different. How do I reconfigure my time capsule so that it's on the new network without losing any of my exsting information on it?

The Time Capsule is designed to function optimally when it connects to a modem/router using a wired Ethernet connection.
Are you planning to try to configure the Time Capsule to connect to your new network wirelessly?
In either case, you must reset the Time Capsule back to factory default settings and then set it up again to connect to the new network.
To do this....
Power off the Time Capsule for a few minutes
Hold in the reset button first, and then keep holding the reset button in for an additional 10 seconds while you simultaneously plug the power back into the Time Capsule
Release the reset button after the hold period, and allow a full minute for the Time Capsule to restart to a slow, blinking amber light
Now you can reconfigure the Time Capsule again to connect to the new network....and you can use the same Time Capsule device name and device password that you used before if you wish.
Resetting the Time Capsule only affects the network settings, it will not affect any of the data that you have stored on the Time Capsule hard drive.

New iPad makes time capsule internet slower

I currently have a time capsule as my internet router for an iPhone, iMac and MacBook Pro. I also use the time capsule as a back up disk. I recently bought my husband an iPad 2 and have noticed that when he is using it in our house, the desktop and lap top internet speeds become REALLY slow. When he goes somewhere with his iPad, the internet goes back to its normal fast speed. I did a bit of reading and understand that the more devices you add to the network, the slower it becomes and that it is only as fast as the slowest device. Also, I know that our time capsule is a dual band wireless network (2.4 GHz and a 5 GHz). What can I do to speed up our internet again so that we can use both iPad and computers at the same time?

Your three devices connected to your TC means that you have no "unknown" devices using your WiFi network.
Speedtest should connect immediately through your browser.
Let's try working backwards to find a solution...
Apple computers / devices > WiFi Network > Time Capsule > ISP modem > physical connection to residence > ISP service.
Step One
Firstly - I make assumptions in my instructions - please let me know if you require further assistance with any of the suggested actions - rule of thumb - if you have spent more than two minutes trying to work out what I have written, then I have not written clearly or with enough detail, so please reply and ask me for clarification.
Assuming your iMac and MBP are working OK, let's try to determine whether there is a problem with your WiFi Network (the radios in your TC). Using an Ethernet cable, create a physical network connection from either your iMac or MBP to the TC. There are three Ethernet ports on the back panel of the TC - connect to any one of these. Next, disable the WiFi radio on the connected computer. The easiest method to complete this task is via the WiFi symbol in the top right corner of your computer screen - often this icon is located just to the left of the clock. Click on the WiFi symbol and select >Turn Wi-Fi Off. Now open your favourite browser software - for example Safari - and attempt to connect to the internet. You may as well attempt to load the www.speedtest.net page, and if possible run the test. Do not wait five minutes - if all is working as it should, this page should load in a few seconds and the test itself should take 10-20 seconds.
Do you have the same issue with speed? Please let me know the outcome of this test and we can progress further.

IMac Time Capsule OK, Macbook Air Time Capsule Very Slow, both 10.9.5

I am struggling for more than a week trying to find an answer, but failed, hope someone can help me out
It seems after I upgraded to 10.9.5, a message on my Macbook appeared that I believe advised me to do a new full back-up on my Time Capsule. I did, it was slow, few MB after 1 hour or so, so I cancelled it. Whatever I tried, it remains a problem, I am now backing up 180GB to a 2TB Time Capsule, and it is at 53GB after 10 hours, now running at about 1GB/3 hours. My iMac, also on 10.9.5, connected to the very same Time Capsule on the same network runs smoothly, backing up 850GB in 8 hours or so.
What I have done so far, that did not help:
- Reformatted my Time Capsule completely,
- Run Disk Utility on Macbook, Repair Disk permission, Repair Disk.
- After Repair Disk Permissions it completes OK, but when I immediately run it again if finds the same problems, which it says have been corrected, see screenshot
- Disconnected my iMac from the network, sticked the very same network cable in my MacBook, ran Time Machine again, no difference
My set up:
1x Macbook Air, mid 2002, 250GB of which 70GB free space, 10.9.5, no anti-virus, clean-up apps etc
1x iMac, beginning 2009, 1TB of which 150GB free space, 10.9.5, no anti-virus, clean-up apps etc
1x Time Capsule 2TB, running latest firmware 7.6.4
All networked to the same network, no wireless connections
Prior to 10.9.5 I did not have this problem. I am pretty much lost. Anybody?

USB to ethernet has never been great.. although why it is worse with 10.9.5 is typical quality of apple upgrades these days.
7GB/hr sure aint fast.. it will go fairly slowly over the small files but should speed up on the larger ones.
I would take another step.. since you have come this far..
Check your wireless link speed. Depending on the age of the TC (yours in gen4) and the air.. you link speed should show 450mbps in the wifi on the mac.
Check it now..
Transmit rate should show 450.. you might need to setup close to the TC to get it.
But I achieve that by setting different names for the two bands.. TC24ghz and TC5ghz.
By default my mac will choose 2.4ghz .. because it is based on the best signal not the best speed. On 2.4ghz it can achieve 217Mbps max. Usually it will drop to 130. So by using a different name I can force the connection to the highest speed.
As you can probably tell.. IMHO using auto for everything is a great way to get things to work.. but how well they work is optimised by a committee.
Setting all the factors myself I set what I want and produce a racehorse instead of a camel.
(It is a typical joke.. camel is a horse designed by a committee!!).

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