Linking Bt home hub to Time capsule

Hi everyone,
I have a Bt Home Hub 2.0 at home, however the wireless coverage isnt very strong throughout the house I am looking at buying a time capsule and connecting it to my hub to back up work. I was wondering if I did connect the capsule to my home hub can it be used to extend my wireless connection and improve the signal strength and how would I go about doing this?
Thanks
Chopper23

I was wondering if I did connect the capsule to my home hub can it be used to extend my wireless connection and improve the signal strength and how would I go about doing this?
You would need to establish a permanent wired Ethernet connection from one of the LAN <-> ports on the HomeHub to the WAN port (circle of dots icon) on the Time Capsule.
Using the AirPort Utility application, you would configure the Time Capsule to "Create a wireless network" using the exact same name, exact same security settings and same password as your HomeHub network.
AirPort Utility will suggest using "Bridge Mode" during the configuration, which would be the correct setting to use with the HomeHub.

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Excellent plan.
Can my network operate properly to extend the network with both a wireless and wired extend functionallity?
Yes, but don't get confused about the second AirPort Extreme, as it would not be configured to "extend" a wireless network.....it would be configured to "create a wireless network" using the same wireless network name, security settings and password as the Time Capsule network. Configure the second Extreme in Bridge Mode.
This Apple support document will show you how to hookup and configure the second AirPort Extreme:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4260

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Setup the TC in bridge mode before you cannot it to the HH.
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I am not sure what you are backing up.. CCC is a great software .. Runs rings around TM for reliability.
Anyway no factory reset of the TC causes loss of data on its hard disk.. just so you know.
You cannot delete data on the hard disk without deliberate action via finder to delete the file/folder or using erase from the airport utility.
Martin Toal wrote:
I didn't do a full reset, but I didn't do it when I got the Sky Hub a couple of weeks ago either.
The fact that you didn't do the full reset first time around.. does not mean it is not required the second time.. this is recommended whenever you make major network changes. The TC simply remembers too much.

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Don't try to home share it.. as that is dependent on using Apple ID.
Just airplay to the ATV.. iTunes: Using AirPlay
The movie should play exactly as your doing music.. but get rid of the whole home share if that is causing issues.. there is no mention of needing home share in the above..
If you still have issues you might need to do it other ways.. like export the movie from itunes.. and play it using vlc which should allow you to stream it to the apple TV using airplay.
That is a bit tricky and I have not used that setup but it should work.
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/23412/can-i-stream-any-video-played-wit h-vlc-player-to-apple-tv
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I think I understand:
1. I cannot use a USB-powered hub with a USB-powered hard drive.
2. I can use a USB-powered hub with an externally powered (desktop) hard drive.
3. I can use an externally powered USB hub with a USB-powered hard drive, however, not all hubs will work in this configuration.
Do I have this right?
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Do I have this right?
Yes.
And the next question, is anyone using an externally powered USB hub that they know works with the Time Capsule?
It is harder than you think to say.. brand x or brand y works.. because the companies that sell them buy from several sources and make the factories in China bid for their work.. one year they use this chip and the next year a different factory and a different chip.. but USB hubs are too cheap to get proper revisions.
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My current home network consists of Macbook Pro 17 connected wirelessly, another Mac and few pcs. I have a Time Capsule, new netgear router and several hard drives. At the moment my main drive is plugged in via usb to the mac, however id like to set up a proper mini network where i can at least share several drives between macs, HOWEVER i also want to back up this data via TC, which is why at the moment my hard drive is plugged into the mac, so it can be backed up. Am i correct is saying that TC will not backup netwrok drives?
..any suggestions for best way to set up a network with TC backing up drives?
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paulsutt wrote:
Am i correct is saying that TC will not backup network drives?
Yes.
..any suggestions for best way to set up a network with TC backing up drives?
You could share the locally-connected drive. That would require that your Mac be on whenever any other network client needed to access the drive.

Network hub for time capsule

Has anyone setup a network hub with the new time capsule/airport extreme? Looking to see what the best way to add ethernet connections without losing speed to my computers/media devices throughout the house..

Sorry, not sure what you are asking here......
Looking to see what the best way to add ethernet connections without losing speed to my computers/media devices throughout the house..
You will need to run Ethernet cabling from your Time Capsule to each area where you need an Ethernet connection in the house.
If you need more Ethernet ports to connect the cables, you can add an Ethernet switch to one of the ports on the back of the Time Capsule to add an additional 5-ports, 8-ports, 16-ports, etc.....whatever you might need.

Use Airport Express as Internet hub, bridge Time Capsule for N-only?

OK I checked on the forums, but I could not find anything quite specific it what I was trying to accomplish.
I recently got a 500GB Time Capsule. I changed my network around, which was based off of two Airport Express stations – on in the office hooked up to internet & printer, one in living room hooked up to sound system – and made the TC the main hub, connecting modem to it's WAN port and bridging the office AX via LAN port in bridged mode, sharing the living room AX as WDS. This way, I had the TC in N-only mode in 5ghz spectrum using wide channels for fastest performance. All this worked well.
Except that I noticed that with the TC in the office – where the laptops rarely are – my data transfer speeds were no better than .11g speeds. So I mucked around a little, and noticed that it really was just the case that the separation of distance & obstruction was slowing the transfer speeds over .11n-only that much!
Well, it occurred to me that there may be another way. What I had intended to do was to hook up the modem back to the office AX, move the TC to the living room where it'd be "line of sight" to the laptops most of the time, and bridge the TC and living room AX over LAN. So the idea was to keep the networks separate wirelessly still, and have the internet "bridged" wirelessly from the office AX to the living room AX and then over LAN to the TC. The thinking was that the hit on the internet connection would not be noticeable as the threshold for that is well below the streaming capabilities of the AX network still, so I'd not lose anything there, but gain MUCH faster speeds with the TC in line-of-sight of the Laptops (3x as much in testing; with TC in office and laptops in living room, 1.3gb folder took 9 minutes, same folder line-of-sight testing took only 3 minutes).
However, I CANNOT get this to work properly. I thought I really just needed to move the TC to the living room and bridge it there, as the services should be shared over the LAN port since the 2.4ghz AX are in "bridged" mode, but that didn't work. I kinda-sorta got it to work by forcing both the AX network AND the TC network into "bridged mode," but that didn't seem right or wise, so I tried some other settings, putting the TC to bridged and having the office AX distribute IP addresses, but then it wouldn't show up under restart, and I'm just confused now on how to set that up!
What i need is: To have the "Office AX" hooked up to the modem & printer, on 2.4ghz since it's the older .11g model, with the "Living Room AX" on that same network. Then the TC in 5ghz N-only bridged to the Living Room AX via LAN, so it can share the services (internet & airtunes) and still get high data transfer speeds to the laptops via the advantage of Line-of-sight, non-obstructed networking.
How do I need to set this up? It's possible, right?
Message was edited by: Anthony Caltabiano

OK while I was working out this morning, I was trying to think of WHY my setup wasn't working. I had an epiphany, and decided to try once more. This time, it worked.
The problem was that originally I had the Living Room AX set up as a Remote, so it was hooking INTO the network, not extending it. I know that with that setup you can't hook up to THAT station and get internet or anything, you hook into the MAIN station and you can SEE the remote's services that are "plugged in" to it.
I didn't think this would be an issue with the TC physically attached to the ethernet port, but apparently this behavior extends to the ethernet port on remote stations for internet access... I had a feeling that MIGHT be it, so I started from scratch, and this time set up the Living Room AX to extend the network instead of just joining it. Then hooking up the TC to the Living Room AX's ethernet port and selecting "Bridge Mode" on the TC got me the good ol' green light!
So, if anyone out there is trying to build a dual-band network, with their TC on .11n-only and bridge to services supplied by a 2.4ghz network, AND route their internet access through the 2.4ghz network instead of the TC so that they can keep their TC more centrally located for better performance... make sure you do it like this: Set up the alternate (2.4ghz) network as relays, "extending" the network, so that when you plug into it, the TC essentially thinks it's plugged directly into the main router, no matter where it is. The throughput hit for internet access over WDS shouldn't be a problem for US-based peeps, as our speeds are typically well below the .11g threshold anyway.
I also found that it helped to NOT hide the SSID of the 2.4ghz network; doing that kept rendering failed attempts to force the secondary AX to join as WDS. Once I redid it without hiding the SSID, all went well.

Hub with time capsule?

Is the USB port on the Time Capsule compatible with a USB hub? I'd like to use a hub to share more than one printer and/or additional hard drive.
Mine is an older Time Capsule, from maybe the end of 2008 (version 7.4.2 according to AirPort Utility), if that matters.

Is the USB port on the Time Capsule compatible with a USB hub? I'd like to use a hub to share more than one printer and/or additional hard drive.
Yes.

Home sharring via Time Capsule

Is it posssible to access movies stored on a time capsule from an ipad and apple TV via home sharing?

I am not exactly sure what you mean by home sharing.. but neither the ipad nor apple TV work directly with the TC. ipad you need to download a file app.. if you want to see files.. Apple TV only will work with files if it is Jail Break.. Broken. Otherwise it only sees itunes.. did you want to move your itunes library to the TC.. that is possible to do and a very bad move if you do it. TC is slow and designed as a backup unit for TM. It has no auto internal backup. And people get themselves into big trouble. I repair TC.. one is coming today.. a Gen 4 latest one,, with a dead disk. It is coming to me because the owner has 200GB itunes library which is lost. Frankly the TC is not reliable enough to do this.

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