Airport Time Capsule slows down internet speed while uploading app

Hi All,
Internet speed is going down drastically when I am submitting any iOS app to iTunes Connect.
Previously it was not like this.
I have updated my Macbook Pro to Mavericks and using Airport Time Capsule for wi-fi connection.
Is anyone facing this problem? Any help on this will be very much helpful.

I have almost the exact setup as you, and airtunes never slows down my internet connection.
Has it just happened recently? Have you done a reset on the TC? Make sure you are using the g network, and not in the b only mode.
You can also make sure everything on the network are getting good signal. You can check the signal strength from Airport Utility (in the logs and Stats pane).

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Last week I bought a new Airport 2TB Time Capsule and had everything up and running within minutes. However, less than 24 hours later, the wifi signal started dropping devices all around the house. It started with the AppleTV, and eventually dropped our iPhones and iPad as well. The problem is one I've seen on these forums before (however, not with this new model).
I since exchanged it, and the new model is having the identical issues.
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3. The Internet connection drops in the middle of a browsing session (usually while using an iPhone).
On both devices (the original new one, and the replacement exchange), I immediately ran the firmware update. So, I'm thinking this could be a firmware issue.
This router replaces a Linksys e3000 that was working flawlessly. It's connected to a Cox Cable Cisco DOCSIS 3.0 modem (modem only, no router). The AirPort Time Capsule runs in WPA2 protected mode. It's running DHCP and NAT, and 2.4 and 5ghz are currently running the same network name (although I've tried separating them to no effect).
I am at my wits end. I find it hard to believe that both of these routers are defective. And I also find it hard to believe that I'm doing something wrong in the setup of this simple device, considering I've been working with all kinds of very complicated routers for over a decade without this kind of problem.
So I come to you, community, for help!
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I don't have one.. but your testing is conclusive.. the TC is not stable on this firmware.. Apple will no doubt fix it .. I think their secrecy in marketing leads to less than adequate testing.. you are expecting to buy a mature product.. remember this is a ground breaker.. this is the first all new design since Gen1 TC.. all previous models used Maxell processor and chipset.. albeit with various wireless cards.. now it is broadcom.. processor and wireless.. this also runs apple written firmware.
Broadcom OEM firmware.(linux and hence open source) supplied to all manufacturers of products based on the chipset.. well that would be just wrong for apple... it has to be done in NETBSD,, so it is not open source.. the very thought.. open source.. . that would give everyone access to controls apple don't want you to have.. http setup even.. couldn't allow that.. so apple have to write the firmware from scratch and to match all those apple protocols. Hence where they are now now.
And your role is beta tester.. didn't you know.
Return it and stick with your Linksys (broadcom, Linux open source) until Gen 6 TC comes out.
Unless you like the bleeding edge.

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My 6 month old Airport time capsule is grinding to a halt and now can only achieve 0.5mbit/sec (both wired and wireless)) throughput when connected to the internet, even though the Netgear DSL modem alone achieves 15mbit/sec, so the line is OK. This also happend to my old TC so I bought the new upright brick version, which has been fine till a few months back. The wireless function itself works fine, although connects to the net at the same basic slow speed. I have tried everything. Changed cables, factory resets++, unplugged everything else etc. I see others have had similar problems around the chat rooms, but no solution. Any ideas?

I believe there is a WAN port compatiblity issue.
Did you buy a crossover cable to try?? They are still readily available and cheap.. and it is worth a go..
Or if you have a small 10/100 switch you can place between the netgear and the TC to see if you can get the ethernet to link correctly.
Apple removed all diagnostics.. in the end if you make no progress, it is under warranty and just return it for replacement as being faulty. (I think it is not faulty .. it is actually buggy).
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Just note Apple states specifically not to store the iphoto library on network drives.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5168 Although mostly about FAT32 it adds network drives.
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Make sure the MBA has ipv6 set to link-local only for wireless.
I strongly recommend using short names, no spaces and pure alphanumeric.
eg TCgen5 and TCwifi
In fact if you keep having wireless issues.. with the MBA in the same room as the TC, change the wireless name to TC24ghz and TC5ghz so you have different names for both bands and see if that doesn't help.. try to connect to this band and then the other.
Use WPA2 personal security.. password 8-20 characters mixed case and numbers.. no non-alphanumerics.
Do not hide the wireless.. that is against the code and simply leads to issues.
If you still have issues.. post back.. does the MBA work ok on other routers or wireless access points??

Will Joining Time Capsule Slow My Internet Down

Hi,
I am joining Virgin Media (100mB/S) and before I have always plugged my time capsule into my BT router and joined the time capsule.
What speeds can Time Capsule support? Will doing this with a significantly faster broadband speed be pointless and slow?
Thanks in advance.
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I want to share this new experience so that others can learn from it.
I've had Time Capsule for about 2 to 3 weeks now. It worked quite well for the first two weeks but this week it was really, really slow. I was going mad trying to figure out what was going on. The symptoms:
- Time Machine was spending a lot of time in the "Preparing Backup" stage
- Sometimes over 1 hour just to back up say 5MB worth of stuff
- Entering Time Machine was much slower than before
- and when I changed from using wifi to direct ethernet plug in, the backup would finish in no time
-, all backups even over wifi eventually; nothing was failing; it was just SLOW! VERY SLOW! SLOWER than before.
I was going insane trying to figure this out and even deleted all my backups and started from scratch.
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1. a corrupted diskimage?
2. something to do with a "delay ACK" setting I should fiddle around with according to one blog post?
3. A bad wifi chip on the Time Capsule?
4. Spotlight doing something funny?
It was none of these. I figured out what was going on. A neighbouring router had been interfering with my network using the same radio frequency. I don't think it was intentional. I was able to discover this after I set my mouse pointer to the wifi icon on the menu bar and pressed the option key while clicking on the icon. It showed a transmit rate of 11 or 9 instead of 54 (I'm using a G network).
The reason I didn't figure this out earlier is because my internet connection is relatively slow and B or G speeds make no difference in accessing my connection to the internet but makes a world of difference using the intranet (LAN).
I ended up switching the radio frequency my network operates on and now it's back to its normal speeds. A regular 20mb hourly update doesn't take over an hour but just takes mere minutes.
WHEW! I thought I was going insane!
Another interesting thing is that my Time Capsule is less than 12 feet from my laptop and yet my neighbour's wifi signal could interfere with it to the extent of making transfers go from 54 to 11 or less! Unfortunately I cannot switch to N because my laptop is a first generation MacBook Pro which did not come with the necessary N hardware.
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Bad Monk wrote:
thanks for that!! interesting and i never knew the option key pressed while on the wifi icon showed that info so cheers
mine is on channel 11 but so far its @ 54 so thats all good, but yeah i think channel 11 is very popular as its prob the default for most wireless devices!
Most routers come with the default Channel 6 set.
question though, if i change the channel on my wireless router what is the best channel to go for please? and also do my wireless devices in my home automatically change to the new channel? or do i have to mess around with each one individually?
There is no "best" channel to go for. You have to figure out what channels are being used and select one that is not being used by other routers. ONe way to do this is download the free iStumbler software which will discover all visible and invisible networks and tell you what channels are being used. From that information, select a number that is farthest from any of the other channels being used.
thannks

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KenRN wrote:
does anybody have any clue on what I am doing wrong?
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Hi Tom,
Thanks for the tipp on disabling the IPS, I did it and the speedtest.net test resulted in 21Mbps.
So, it is already a great improvement.
It is interesting though, that on the IPS page of the router, all four protocols were disabled (http, ftp, telnet and rpc), so I am not sure if it was doing anything useful anyway. Am I right?
Since the tech from my ISP was using speedtest.net for testing and did get 25Mbps, I figured that it should work for me too. I am not sure if our ISP has a website for the same purpose.
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I did another test on speedtest.net and at this time I got 24.35Mbps, so you were right, speedtest.net won't give you a reliable speed value if you just run it once and you want to make a decision based on that. (Btw., I contacted our ISP, they don't have a net speed measuring website within their own network.)
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Yes. What you want to do is set your TC to join your Netgear's WiFi network.
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Airport time capsule losing Internet connection?

My airport time capsule is losing Internet connection but I still have wifi? Any suggestions?

It could be your modem, or other problem on the ISP's end. Try resetting your modem - power it down and let it rest for a few minutes, then power it back up again.
If it is a cable modem, also disconnect its coaxial cable - literally unscrew it and leave it detached while the modem is powered down.
Leave the TC powered up during that time.
After a sufficient amount of time has elapsed reconnect the cable and power up the cable modem. If you're still having trouble contact your ISP.
The possibility of a TC problem exists but the sort of failure you describe is not common. If all else fails perform a "hard reset" followed by reconfiguring the TC. Your Time Machine backups will not be affected.

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I have an Airport Time Capsule and my internet service is 100Mbps. Hard wired to the Time Capsule I get close to 100Mbps that but when using wi-fi the max speed is around 40Mbps. Is this a function of the unit or is there a setting that I need to change?

So to get a good signal to my Smart TV which is in the next room I guess I should hard wire it also.
Hard wired connections are always the better performance and reliability choice, if possible.
As far as a good location for the Time Capsule for wireless, think of it as if it were a water sprinkler and you want to get as much of the room as "wet" as possible.
There might be a worse spot to locate a Time Capsule than under a desk, but off hand, I can't think of one unless it is inside a cabinet.
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Yes, it does.
Re: My Airport Extreme intermittently shuts down completely.
Search here is now a hopeless failure but we do see the complaint fairly often.
And the same thing happens.. people return them and come back with the same problem.
There was some discussion as to the Airports being ultra sensitive to spikes.. or power dips.. so using it on a UPS was one recommendation..
I have found btw that the power supply design for universal, often works better in our part of the world on 240v than on 110v. If you happen to have an 110v to 240v transformer handy or cheaply available have a go running it on 240v. There are various methods used to handle 110v but voltage doubler on the primary circuit is one of the main ways it is done. That is a lot more susceptible to power spikes and dips than standard full wave rectifier.
In the end though.. power supply really should not shutdown.. AFAIK there is no soft off on them .. so for the power supply to shut down completely means it is in protection mode..
If you wanted to open and replace the supply with external 12v supply you probably can.. but so far nobody has trusted me with one.. and I think they are too issue prone to go buy one for myself to do experiments... although I am always keeping my eyes open for the dead ones.
See the teardown in
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/AirPort+Time+Capsule+A1470+%28Mini%21%29+Teardow n/15067
Then look at the link to the airport extreme.. they are identical except for the drive.. ie Apple has same power supply in both.. since it is under so much less load in the airport extreme yet they still have the problem I suspect it is fundamental design flaw in the supply.

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My airport time capsule is connected to the internet in bridge mode via a cisco router.
The cisco router provides a 99Mbps download speed. However, when I " bridge" my time capsule in between (wired) the speed slows down to 9 Mbps.
I have already tried to assign a static DHCP IP to my time capsules MAC address and disabled DMZ for that specific IP address, but am failing to get the speed up to par.
Any suggestions?

I have used Time capsule 1.5 year behind a copperjet modem on ADSL, no problems.
Changed provider and am connected by cable with new cisco modem including router.
So the set up looks like:
internet>cisco modem/router>airport time capsule>macbook pro
The cisco modem without airport time capsule is working ok: when logged in speed is 99 Mbps as it should be (wired and wireless)
Connecting cisco router with UTP cable to time capsule and time capsule with UTP to macbook slows down speed to 9 Mbps
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