My Time Capsule disappears after restarting on setup and blocks the internet

Hi There
I have just got a new Time Capsule and am trying to set it up at the moment, but am having a big problem. Every time I go through the setup, at the end of it it says that the settings have been updated, and the Time Capsule now needs to restart. However, after the restart my Macbook then can't find the Time Capsule, and my Internet is not working. At this point I go into Network preferences and re-select my home Wifi Network, and reset the Time Capsule. Once it has been reset my Macbook can see it again, but it obviously needs to be re-setup and the whole process starts again.
I am not trying to use my Time Capsule as a Wifi network, I just want to use it for backup and as an external hard drive.
I am trying to connect my time capsule to my wifi network wirelessly.
I'm pretty new to the world of Mac, and not overly technical, so if anyone can help me it would be much appreciated.
Question - Does the time capsule need to be connected via an ethernet cable to my Wifi Router?
Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it
Chris

Seabass78 wrote:
Hi There
I am trying to connect my time capsule to my wifi network wirelessly.
I'm pretty new to the world of Mac, and not overly technical, so if anyone can help me it would be much appreciated.
Question - Does the time capsule need to be connected via an ethernet cable to my Wifi Router?
Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it
Chris
Apple do not make their products compatible with those of other companies.. the very thought of it sickens their bottom line. It may not be impossible to do WDS with other brands.. but you will lose more skin than you can afford to, and the bleeding edge is unpleasantly sharp.
And to answer your question.. yes, the TC needs to be connected by ethernet, unless you are going to use another apple airport product, AEBS, Express or another TC.
Then the question comes in do you run the TC as the main router.. or bridged.. you will see those two options. In general the TC behaves better as the main router.. but it isn't universal. In bridge you will have full access to all the facilities that you are likely after except remote connection. (which should still be possible albeit very difficult.. more skin loss.)

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renatocremonese wrote:
I want to use it for backing up my Mac.
It's good for that . . .
But also I don't keep all my stuff in my Mac.
But not for that.
This older and not day-by-day usage files I want to store in the time machine.
You can do that (see below), but how are you going to back them up? If your only copies are on the TC, when (not if) it fails, you risk losing your only copy of the data.
Is it possible to split TC in two partitions.
No, but there are some workarounds, including making a fixed-size disk image on it to "reserve" some space. See #Q3 in Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule.
But you still won't have backups of the stuff you put there.
You don't say what kind of Mac you have. If it's a desktop model, just keep the external HD connected to it, and let Time Machine back it up along with your internal HD.
However, it sounds like you may have a laptop, where that's not going to be convenient. In that case, your best bet might be to copy the external HD to a disk image on the TC as above, then keep the HD in a safe place.
To finish, when i enter the TC and go through the Time line how can I get a file from there and move it back to Mac hd.
Via the "Star Wars" display, per #15 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.
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Ive just switched to a "Motorola SURFboard eXtreme Cable Modem" which is connected to a time capsule.
I am unable to connect to my internet via. wifi on my Playstation.
I have already tried many different attempts to connect to the internet. I have tried to directly connect to the internet using an ethernet cable as well as restarting my mac laptop and playstation. I am only able to connect to the internet on my main computer.
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I tried being the most descriptive I could

I am only able to connect to the internet on my main computer.
What IP does your main computer get.. ?? Post a screenshot if you can as it helps to see the details.
When you open the airport utility on the main computer.. click on the TC what errors does it show?
They will list in the summary.
What mode is the TC in? If the setup went wrong it might be bridged when it should be in router mode..
Remember any time to change things around with cable modems you MUST shut down the modem as well.. it cannot change the MAC address of the first item easily so need to be off.. a few minutes at least.. sometimes up to 20min or longer. Make sure the TC captures the public IP on the wan interface.. which is the only way this will work with a pure modem.
The most recent TC can still have issues.. new AC version TC and AE have the Max amount of issues with SB6121 and 6141.. there seems to be some ethernet issue between them..
What model TC do you have??
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When I connect my iMac directly to my internet router, I am able to access the internet, so I have isolated the issue to the Time Capsule.
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--SN124B

Verify that you have a working Ethernet cable.
Then verify that the Ethernet cable is connected from one of the LAN <-> ports on your main router to the WAN "O" port on the Time Capsule.
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Hi
I run and iMac 27 with the latest version of Lion on it and I have been having trouble with a new Time Capsule. My TC is connected to my wireless Belkin router via an Ethernet cable. After some initial set up problems (during which I upgraded the firmware on the TC to the latest version) I finally managed to get the IMac to see the TC and then commenced the first back up. This was scheduled to take a number of hours so after baby sitting it when there were no problems, I left it overnight, setting the screen to switch off but the machine to remain on. When I checked the next day the TC drive had disappeared. The only way I could get the TC to reappear was to reboot both router and TC, at which point I then restarted the back up which appeared to pick up from where it stopped (in terms of time to complete). Having to leave it overnight once more, I was disappointed to discover the same thing happened again. So rebooted again and recommenced the process. This time I managed to see it through to the end and was amazed to see the process complete and then the TC icon on the desk top disappear. Clicking on the TC icon on the toolbar and selecting back up now the system reported a message that the back up was delayed as it could not find the back up drive. All the time the router was connected to the Internet and the green light on the TC was solid.
I have had a look at a number of threads and can see a number of people having connection problems but nothing exactly like mine so I am hoping it is just a setting. Any help or ideas would be gratefully appreciated
regards
Keith

mfez wrote:
I did a restore,
If you mean you restored your entire system from your backups, that's why TM is doing a new full backup: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1338 (although some of the TM engineers claim this doesn't happen anymore in Snow Leopard, it does -- I tried it).
My hard drive is 285.48 GB with 24.11 GB available. Not sure how big the TC is. The message says I need 300 something GB for the backup, but only 128 mb is available. Should I erase it and start over?
That means you have about 261 gb used on your internal; TM adds 20% for workspace and "padding" when making room, so that's why it needs over 300 gb.
TC's used to be 500 gb, recently only 1 tb and 2 tb models are available.
So if it's a 500 gb model, there isn't room for two full backups.
Do you have anything else on the TC besides TM backups? If so, then delete the sparse bundle via the Finder.
If not, you can just erase the TC:
Use the +*Airport Utility+* app, in your Applications/Utilities folder.
Select +*Base Station > Manual Set-Up+* from the Menubar, then Disks in the tool Bar, then Erase.

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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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Hi Jay,
1. start the Airport-Utility
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Nov 12 16:04:10 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Giving up after 3 retries.
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I broke my own rules.. as I saw one going really cheap and our currency is dropping like crazy so i thought I better get one .. stupid idea.. it lasted less than week and then refused to even power on.. It has gone back for replacement.
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Just for edification purposes, I'm using the Cisco AnyConnect VPN software and have enabled the "All local (LAN) access when using VPN" option. Still no dice. Any thoughts?

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Go, Connect to server.
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Set that in your Asus main router.. but test it immediately before worrying too much.. if you get it mounted in Finder by IP address.. you can also discover it in Airport utility by using its IP directly..
You simply need to manually control things.. type in the IP to help it out.
Also don't forget the ipv6 setup to link-local only on the wireless/ethernet on the computer..
Tell me how this goes.
Once you have the TC mounted in Finder.. have another go with TM.. if it still has issues.. change the name of the TC, make it short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric.. see if that helps.
BTW the windows method of fixing this would be simply edit the hosts file..
Looking it up there is a Mac equivalent.
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end tell
delay 10
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Anyone more familiar with Applescript, improvements welcome. The script does appear to have problem reliably performing the click on the menu. It appears to work some of the time!?
The along with a calendar event as will as a scheduled on/off using Energy Saver should allow for a regular reboot - giving the script works!

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