Firmware 7.3.1 bricks my TC I am ready to sent this piece of junk back!

When I got my TC I went through alot of headaches to use it. I had to get it working by playing with it. The ethernet connection would not work right and after fiddling I got it going, and with lots of pain finally got it working with my macbook and iMac. It was working fine but I upgraded the new airport and time capsule stuff. The backups seemed faster, but then I realized I had not done the firmware part and opened airport utility and it of course "upgraded" the firmware -- NOT! it seems to have messed it up completely! I cannot see it on my iMac now, and only after doing a hard reset I could see it in airport utility in my macbook but not in my iMac, and even then I cannot get it to take the settings I do for the macbook and then it goes into the blinking yellow nowhere land after I do that and the macbook no longer sees it either.
When I had this working prior to this mistake of a firmware upgrade I was using it on an existing wireless network using the airport extreme in my iMac that I run for my macbook and my wifes iBook G4 (all with leopard 105.2 and latest stuff. It had been working fine for over a week once I figured out all the stuff, and it worked better as I mention above with the airport upgrade, but the firmware when applied toasted this. I am finally at my end on this hardware and on monday if not resolved I am taking/sending back and am done with time capsule this product is not typical of my experience with Apple and I am very disappointed with this item.
So I ask for help, if I cannot figure out then TC goes I do not need this hassle, back to firewire drives, they work fine for me and I guess I just will not back up my macbook that often, go find a cheap firewire for it and put my imac back on its external firewire. This experiment is done! And it is a failure!
Russ Jacobson.

Well at least back at 7.3.0 I am able to back up from either machine fine, and it does seem to be faster with the airport part of update intact. Still am not clear why I cannot update the firmware though, would like to be able to add that as well.
The one thought I have now and perhaps by asking this someone can tell me if I might be on track. My macbook core duo 2 (last June 07) is not setup as a base station. It is just wirelessly connected to my iMac core duo (jan 06) which I am using as a airport extreme base station that works fine hence I do not really want to use TC as a base station. So I have it set to just join the iMac network I setup. Why fix what works so well with little to no problems (except when the TC was added to the mix)? I am not even sure my TC would interface well or not with my Comcast cable modem anyway given some of what I have read here.
So the question is given that apple promotes this as the main base station or another base station to extend a network, I am wondering if my problems have to do with my trying to use this with my iMac base station network? When I first had to deal with the TC on arrival it was my macbook I had to use to configure the TC, my iMac could not see it with airport utility until I used my macbook to configure it. So to me this speaks volumes about something with the way my iMac is setup as a base station I suppose, but it always has worked well and I am not about to get into other TC headaches. I just wanted the 1 Terabyte back up capability and being able to get my macbook , iMac and wife's ibook G4 on one large drive for backup but maybe that is not going to work with the way TC wants to be a base station -- even though you can configure it otherwise, and perhaps 7.3.1 is hitting the same problems with this?
At least my imac is just done rather quickly the latest incremental update (about 1/2 GB) in short order and my macbook is backing up right now. So I will sit at 7.3.0 firmware for now and see if I can get someone to figure this update out?
Thanks for listening to my rants, at least there is somewhere to do it <grin> and perhaps that lowers my blood pressure a bit (important since I do have high blood pressure --under control anyway <grin>)
Russ

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