Broadband Speed through Time Capsule or Airport Express.

Dear forum.
Question about broadbandspeeds via wireless. Does it has speed limitations in relation to cable.
I have a Timecapsule and 2 pcs. the Airport Express to extend the wireless network. I have cable my iMac via Time Capsule, and this can have max. download speed of 44000 kbit/s and upload at 40000 kbit/s. When I do a speed test via wireless on my 3 laptops (Windows) and iphone, so I do not get more than 18,000 kbit/s download and 18000 kbit/s upload. Is there anyone who can tell me if Time C. and Airport E. can be modified to run the same speed as cable or is that just a limitation here. I've been looking like crazy but could not find an answer here on.
Thank you in advance .
Henrik

Hello H Salk. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Enabling NAT on any Internet router, not just the AirPort & Time Capsule, will affect data transfer rates (in both directions) to devices connected either by wire or wireless to that router.

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Factory reset universal
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tcdouglas wrote:
My download speed with my MacBook Pro directly connected to my modem is 24 Mbps, my download speed using Time Capsule as a wireless router .86 Mbps - Any ideas???
Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
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I currently have a MacBook Pro 13'' 4GB i5. I also have a wifi 16GB iPad 3rd Gen, an iPhone 6, and an iPhone 5S and 5 in my household.
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A Gen1 TC will be using marvel wireless chip and your 2008 and 2010 Macbook will use atheros and/or broadcom cards.. Just open your system profiler and look for info on the airport. We find the mixture of wireless chipsets especially older draft N and later N products can give very varied results.
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Like the other users, I don't know if this is of any help to you but.....
I also have a BT Homehub (with Hub Phone) which is banging away as a WLAN to which the Hub Phone connects. I've also just bought a Time Capsule to use mainly as a Network back-up device.
However I'm trying out the WLAN from the TC to see if it's any improvement over the BT Homehub. I'm therefore effectively running two WLAN's which you could use to extend coverage. For example set your Wireless devices to be able to connect to both WLANs and place the BT Homehub and the TC in different locations to give the broader coverage.
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My Macbook is backing up to TC via WLAN and is connecting to the internet by WLAN to the TC and in-turn to the BT Homehub via the ethernet connection (between TC and BT Homehub). Sounds confusing, but everything seems to be working OK.
I'm keen to know if any other BT Homehub users have had any success with Back To My Mac - as I've not yet been able to get it to work (but my BT Homehub is one of the earliest types).
I don't think the Broadband supplier has any bearing on the devices used - with the exception of the router supplied or used to connect to the web.
Any use to anyone?
I am interested however in how you're using BT Broadband and a BT Homehub if you're based in the USA!?

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I am wanting to set up a network for my business and was hoping if someone could tell me how to do this and if it will indeed work. Or if you have any better ideas.
I want to transfer all music to Airport Time Capsule. I want to plug in the aiport express to my sound system. I want to access music through the ipad off the timecapsule to play it without downlaoding it on the ipad.
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The answer is not if you use iTunes.
The TC is NOT an iTunes server.. it is not a media device at all. It is a backup location for Time Machine.
You need a computer in the network which stores the iTunes library and you can then play it via the ipad.
A mini with a large USB drive plugged in will work fine.. it doesn't need to be new.. a couple of years old mini will work just as well.
As an extention to this, can we use multiple Airport expresses plugged into mutiple sound systems to simultaneously access different music from the same time capsule?
I am not sure.. there will be network limitations to this.
Look up how to use itunes in a network.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4620
You would do better perhaps posting the question in iTunes section.. if as I guess you are actually using iTunes.

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