I need a travel router and backup solution... Time Capsule?

I stay in hotels 365 days a year and traveling with the lightest and smallest equipment is important. I have a recent MBP and an iPhone I operate wirelessly each night. I currently have an external 2TB hard drive I use for firewire based backups now. I also have an Asus wl330ge mini travel router (basically a smaller and cheaper alternative to the Airport Express).
Basically, I want to end up with a wireless backup solution, (a wireless NAS) and I'd love it to have the wireless sharing/router/ethernet bridging abilities built in as well. I'm hoping this device is the Time Capsule. Please help me answer these questions:
-In hotel rooms where they provide a wired ETHERNET connection the Time Capsule will need to act as a wireless BRIDGE via ethernet + time machine. This is possible, correct?
-In hotel rooms where the hotel provides ONLY wifi, the device will need to ask as a wireless CLIENT and connect to the hotels WIFI network, is this possible?
Thanks for your assistance!

Welcome to the discussion area, GetFoxy!
In hotel rooms where they provide a wired ETHERNET connection the Time Capsule will need to act as a wireless BRIDGE via ethernet + time machine. This is possible, correct?
Yes. If you configure the Time Capsule in Bridge Mode, you can setup the Time Capsule to "create a wireless network" and connect multiple wireless and ethernet devices. The big question is IF the hotel allows multiple devices to connect from one room. Some hotel routers do, some don't.
If multiple devices are not allowed to connect, you can try changing the Connection Sharing on the Time Capsule to "Share a public IP address". This will create what is known as a Double NAT error...usually not too serious in this type of setup...and it may allow you to connect multiple devices to the Time Capsule since the hotel' router only "sees" one device...the Time Capsule in this type of configuration. Sometimes works when Bridge Mode will not do what you want, but some hotel systems will not allow another router to connect to their network.
In hotel rooms where the hotel provides ONLY wifi, the device will need to ask as a wireless CLIENT and connect to the hotels WIFI network, is this possible?
Yes. But, when the Time Capsule "joins" a wireless network and becomes a client, it performs no routing functions in this type of configuration. In other words, the ethernet ports on the Time Capsule are not enabled, and the Time Capsule cannot provide a wireless network configured this way, so all device connections would occur over the hotel wireless.
Whether or not you would be able to connect multiple devices to the wireless network is open to question as many hotels only allow one wireless connection at a time per room. Or, if multiple devices are allowed to connect per room, the hotel will likely charge you separately for each device/connection.
Bottom line...this is going to be an "iffy" proposition because you often will not know what will work and what won't until you actually get to the hotel. You'll have much better luck with hotels that provide ethernet connections.
Since you'll need to make configuration changes on the Time Capsule to adapt to different hotel networks, you'll need to have AirPort Utility, the software application used to setup the Time Capsule, on your computer.
Finally, as far as space is concerned, you would probably need to re-pack the Time Capsule in the original carton to protect the hard drive from damage during travel. Or, come up with a good way to protect it for travel.
Message was edited by: Bob Timmons

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#1. Time Machine / Time Capsule
Drawbacks:
1. Time Machine is not bootable, if your internal drive fails, you cannot access files or boot from TM directly from the dead computer.
OS X Lion, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks include OS X Recovery. This feature includes all of the tools you need to reinstall OS X, repair your disk, and even restore from a Time Machine
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2. Time machine is controlled by complex software, and while you can delve into the TM backup database for specific file(s) extraction, this is not ideal or desirable.
3. Time machine can and does have the potential for many error codes in which data corruption can occur and your important backup files may not be saved correctly, at all, or even damaged. This extra link of failure in placing software between your data and its recovery is a point of risk and failure. A HD clone is not subject to these errors.
4. Time machine mirrors your internal HD, in which cases of data corruption, this corruption can immediately spread to the backup as the two are linked. TM is perpetually connected (or often) to your computer, and corruption spread to corruption, without isolation, which TM lacks (usually), migrating errors or corruption is either automatic or extremely easy to unwittingly do.
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12. TM like all HD-based data is subject to ferromagnetic and mechanical failure.
13. *Level-1 security of your vital data.
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1. Like all HD-based data is subject to ferromagnetic and mechanical failure.
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#4. Online archives
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2. DVD is not subject to mechanical breakdown.
3. DVD archival media is not subject to ferromagnetic degradation.
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Drawbacks:
1. Subject to HD failure but not RAID failure and mass data corruption.
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Bare hard drives and docks. The most reliable and cheapest method of hard drive data storage, archives, and redundancies
The best method for your data archives and redundancies, which is also the least expensive, the most reliable, and the most compact option is the purchase of naked hard drives and at least one USB 3.0 HD dock ($40 roughly).
While regarding Time Machine and your Macbook or desktop, your primary backup is best saved to a conventional USB (or Firewire / thunderbolt) hard drive inside an enclosure, the most important part of your data protection begins after your 1st / primary Time Machine / backup; and these are your secondary (most important) data storage devices, archives and their redundancies.
However bare hard drives and docks (below) also work perfectly as a Time Machine backup, this is for home use, since the docking station is certainly not very portable as a notebook Time Machine backup device should be; nor should bare HD be packed around with a notebook, rather remain at home or office.
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Bare hard drives and docks have the lowest cost, the highest reliability, and take up the smallest storage space
Drawbacks:
1. Care and knowledge in general handling of naked hard drives (how not to shock a bare HD, and how to hold them properly). Not a genuine drawback.
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Important data you “don’t dare lose” should not be considered ultimately safe, or ideally stored (at the very least not as sole copy of same) on your Time Machine backup. Hourly and daily fluctuations of your system OS, applications, and software updates is the perfect focus for the simple user to conduct ‘click it and forget it’ backups of the entire system and files on the Macbook HD.
Bootable clones are the choice of professionals and others in that Time Machine cannot be booted from and requires a working HD to retrieve data from (meaning another computer). Your vital data needs to be and should be ‘frozen’ on some form of media storage, either in a clone, as an archived HD containing important files, or on DVD blank archival media.
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