Best setup for new airport with wired connection to old airport extreme (4th gen)

I have an AirPort Extreme (4th gen) in my basement (of a three story house) connected directly to the Fios box (I am not using the Verizon g router). The new AirPort (ac) is connected to the old one by in-wall Cat 6e to an upstairs bedroom. Can/should I turn off wifi on the n router for best wireless performance? What would the optimal setup be?
On the airport utility I selected "replace existing Airport" and the new ac router is up and running and working fine. I wonder whether the fact that wifi on the old Airport is still on may be good for coverage around the house, but compromising the wireless bandwidth/speed? I haven't noticed any speed issues yet, but I do a lot of video streaming so I want to ensure I have the best setup. Range doesn't seem to be a major issue in my house. It is more important to me to have strong wifi signal upstairs.
Thanks in advance for advice.

If the AirPorts are connected using Ethernet, then no bandwidth is being lost on the network. Keep the wireless functions "on" at both AirPorts for additional wireless coverage and speed.

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Before doing anything else, authorize the new computer with your iTunes Account. In iTunes, choose Store -> Authorize This Computer and enter in the correct credentials. Either copy a backup file from your old computer to your new one or create a new backup of your iPod in iTunes before letting it sync.
Then right->click on your iPod Touch from under the Devices section in the left hand pane of iTunes and choose Backup. You might also want to take a look at this article to see what it all included in the backup.
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A little over a month ago, I decided to get "serious" with my photography hobby and plunked down several hundred bucks for a Drobo (4-bay, FireWire800), a couple 1TB drives to go in it, and a copy of Aperture 3.
It took a couple tries (and a couple days) to import my large iPhoto library and get everything up and running. I can see that Aperture has the potential to be a VERY useful tool... its feature set seems like exactly the type of photo manager I need/want.
Unfortunately, Aperture has been very frustrating to use so far. It's just not very responsive... the "lag" is killin me! Sometimes it's EXTREMELY slow, sometimes it's kinda slow, but it's never fast. There's always a delay/lag any time I try to make an adjustment/edit, skip to the next photo, importing and ESPECIALLY when I am deleting photos. Just deleting one 8MB JPEG can take anywhere from 10 seconds to 10 minutes.
I'm wondering if the slow performance issue is because my library and masters are stored on the Drobo (which uses a RAID-like storage system spread across multiple drives). Or do I just not have my preferences set up right? Or is there a corrupt file slowing things down? I don't know....
Anybody out there successfully using Aperture 3 in conjunction with a DROBO? If so, tell me your secret! How do you have your library/masters set up?
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First let me say I'm a little on the paranoid side when it comes to loosing my work so my backup process will be overkill for most.
I put all my images and my Aperture library on a large internal drive. All my images are referenced. I also put one Aperture vault on the same drive and another vault elsewhere. I allow Time Machine to back up to a partition on the Drobo (2nd gen) via FW800. I also have a external esata swappable bay that I use for full image backup of the Photo HD using Superduper. I keep one swappable image of each critical HD in fireproof storage and rotate them periodically. I also have a DVD archive of all my images that is kept in a different location.
Having all the images online in the same box makes access fast.
Backing up to the Drobo is not real fast, but I manually start Time Machine and go do something else. The backup on the Drobo is primarily so I can go back in time and locate an image I may have deleted but not realized I needed it. The speed of the Drobo is not a problem in this situation.
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When I started I had 3 and later 4 500GB drives in the Drobo. I recently swapped them for 1.5TB drives. When I pulled a 500GB and put in a 1.5TB the Drobo took about 4 days to rebuild the data. The second and third swaps took just as long. The forth only a few minutes. Between each swap I checked and the Drobo (as advertised) recovered all the data.
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The answer depends on whether the AirPort Extreme is your main router....or...the Linksys device is your main router.
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There is not much info from Apple about the best way to set up an iMac with a Hard Drive and Solid state drive. I’ve looked at a few of the forum posts across the web and came up with a plan and lots of questions. (I do use photoshop frequently, but not on a professional level):
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2. About moving the home folder: I saw some posts about moving the whole home folder, but it makes more sense to me to only move selected fodlers withing the home folder tomake the best use of the SSD. So will keep the home folder on SSD, but move certain folders (document /music/iphoto/download) to 1 TB HDD via instructions I found on the macintoshperformanceguide website:
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Thanks for the advice and the links. yes, I would like to speed up ps as much as possible.
I wonder if putting the scratch disc on the same drive as the OS would cause them to interfere with each other? Even if they are on different partitions, they would not be able to be accessed at the same time, or could they? That's why I was wondering if I should place scratch disc on the internal HDD -- but then I don't know how much to partition for it (or to partition at all?)
ALso, I read on a few places that too much read/write on the SSD wears it down over time? Is this more of a theoretical concerns - it does not make sense to me since it has no moving parts!
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I'd like to get some advice on the best setup for my situation. I've read a number of posts on WDS, Extending a Network, etc. and, unfortunately, I'm now more confused than ever.
We have an Airport Extreme 802.11n using WPA2 Personal, 2.4Ghz (n only connection) which I've found to give us the best range/connection speeds for the following devices (all computers running 10.5.5, Apple TV's using most current update):
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The good news we have a large house, the bad news we have a large house. Meaning of course that I don't get the range in parts of the house I'd like to. I also have an older Mini (G4) connected to the AEBS thru ethernet (the Mini acts as the iTunes server for the ATVs).
I just bought a new Airport Express with the desire to place it on the other side of the house to both enhance the range of the wireless network and to provide another wired to wireless connection to the network.
I initially merely chose to "Extend a wireless network" but that seems to have a MAJOR adverse impact on the speeds of the wireless network. dropping the streaming to one of the ATV by like 90%. I would like to maintain the security settings I have as well as the 2.4Ghz (n only) since these provide the best speed/connection range on the AEBS.
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I have a dual xeon server, with a SATA RAID5 I want to use as a file server in a cross-platform environment.
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At first I considered using Windows 2003 (Win2k3) but Services for Macintosh (SFM) is an older version of AFP and thus only supports 31 character filenames. With all our Macs supporting SMB/Samba/CIFS and Apple touting that "Macs and PCs can co-exist harmoniously on the same network" I figured I would give that a try.
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Rick may be right because although i didnt think of it before i tend to have notoriuosly long classnames for my php classes and i have used samba on occasion (when rsync is out of the question for one reason or another) and never had a problem. I use kubuntu (feisty at the moment )with an ext3 filesystem. if i have a chance this evening ill give it a try and see what happens.
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NAS is the right tool for this job.
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