Media, NAS and streamers

Can my Time Capsule act as a bridge to my NAS and media streamers, all without being part of my house's general network? I don't have the option of plugging anything into the house router nor do I want to due to heavy traffic when everyone in the house all gets on the internet. Also I don't really want any of my Macs to be involved in this task (except for the initial setip part) as I'm also trying to reclaim some HD space.

Ok.. trick here is to set things manually.
The TC can work isolated from the main network. But you mess things up running dhcp.. at least on things that you want to run internet on.
Keep a separate subnet for the TC from the main router.. I will assume main router is 192.168.x.x
TC is 10.0.1.x by default.. so that works.
Plug into the TC by ethernet from imac.. set the IP of the imac ethernet to 10.0.1.2 with subnet mask 255.255.255.0 no gateway (router) no dns. Do the same on the MBP, increment the IP one.. do the same on WDTV increment one.. etc.
Wireless on the TC is not needed so turn it off. That will prevent other people getting in.
You can add anything later.. I would not recommend the buffalo. They are problematic really.. and firmware rather out of date. You are still better saving up and getting low end synology.. or using the TC disk for storing your media as long as you back it up somewhere. You can just use a USB drive on the wd live. And it will make it available to the network so the PCH might be able to access it as well.

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