Older Time Capsule problems

Hi guys, I have an older 500gb time capsule that was bought in 2008. In march I was having some problems with it so my unlce gave me a linksys e3000 router that I hooked up and have been using since then. Well my computer has been going down hill lately so I hooked my tc back up so I can back my computer up in case it dies before I get a new one. So my problem is, I hooked it up the linksys, set it up in bridge mode and the internet works fine, but the time capsule can't seem to back up. I was able to get into time machine and see my archives but it has been "preparing backup..." for almost 2 hours now. Does this sound normal? I don't remeber it ever taking this long to back up before. The first hour it was on the other side of my house so I thought maybe it was the connection so I moved my computer right next to it and it made no difference. I restarted my computer and now it is hooked up to a linksys network. I started the back up and it says "Preparing backup" again. Do I need to be linked to the time capsule network? Does any of this sound normal? Can/should I just hardwire a connection and back it up? How can I do that?
Thanks Tyler

Sorry, but the bad news is that your old AE cannot be read by Time Capsule if its network wirless settings are for a 5GHz, "n" only mode.The good news, is that they will "see" each other if the configuration is set to "802.11n(b/g compatible"). However, with the latter setting, your data transfer speed will be reduced.
The other alternative is to set up a "Dual Band" wireless network, but that would entail the AE being tethered directly to the TC via ethernet cable.
Hope that answers your question. You could, of course dash off to your nearest Apple Store and purchase the NEW Airport Express, that was released this past week. It will read your "n" network for a mere $99.00!(See how that "Apple conspiracy" works?)

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Basically just plug the new TC WAN port into the old TC LAN port.
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An iPhone or iPad could be used for the setup as well.
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I thank you all for the efforts in trying to help our uneasy days! Let me tell you how I was able to solve the problem I had with Time Capsule.
As I said, my Mac would not find Time Capsule anymore.
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1. Turned off Wi-Fi.
2. Restarted my Mac with ethernet cable connecting Mac to Time Capsule.
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Specs:
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15, Late 2013), 2.6 Ghz Intel Core i7, 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048MB, 1TB SSD, OSX Mavericks 10.9.4 (13E28)
Time Capsule 2013, 3TB, Firmware 7.7.3
"There was a problem connecting to the server "Xxxxx's Airport Time Capsule".
Check the server name or IP address, and then try again. If you continue to have problems, contact your system administrator."
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Reset your TC to factory.
The Factory Reset universal
Unplug your TC/AE. Hold in reset. and power the TC/AE back on.. all without releasing reset and keep holding in for about 10sec. The time is not important.. it is the front LED rapid flashing that indicates you are in factory mode.
Release reset.
If it doesn’t flash rapidly you have released reset at some point and try again.
Be Gentle! Feel the switch click on. It has a positive feel.. add no more pressure after that.
TC/AE will reboot after a couple of minutes with default factory settings and will wipe out previous configurations.
No files are deleted on the hard disk.. No reset of the TC deletes files.. to do that you use erase from the airport utility.
Redo the setup of the TC.. using all short names.. with no spaces and pure alphanumeric.
Apple changed Mavericks default network protocol to SMB and it has tighter rules.
eg.. A good name is TCgen5
A good name for the wireless is TCwifi
Use whatever you like.. up to max 20 characters but short and sweet is better.
Once you do that, mount the disk in finder manually.
Go, Connect to server.. From the top menu area.
AFP://TCgen5.local
OR even better use its IP address.
AFP://10.0.1.1 (but it must be static which usually means in router mode).
Once you have found the network resource.. put in your disk password and save it to the keychain. All passwords should be pure alphanumeric mix of case and numbers and 10-20 characters.
Reset Time Machine to the new path to the TC.
It will say it will start a new backup but in fact it will discover the old one and simply continue the backup.
If it still fails.. it is faulty and should be returned.
The drop out of the internet even when wireless is working points to faulty WAN connection which is a serious bug on these.

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Helpmeplease111 wrote:
How else can I free up space?
(Taking things in reverse order), there are several tools to show what's using your disk space.
Some are free, such as:
[Disk Inventory X|http://www.derlien.com>
[OmniDiskSweeper|http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnidisksweeper>
[SupaView|http://twinside.free.fr/supaview>
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But I recommend [WhatSize|http://www.whatsizemac.com/index.php] ($12.99 US) for the following features:
It's the only one with an option to show everything at once; the others only show things the logged-on user is permitted to see (click the +As User+ padlock icon in the toolbar).
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There's a "Find Duplicates" feature.
It has very good and complete Help.
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1/ Network name. In system folder> Sharing make sure there is a name of your network. Less than eight characters and no punctuation.
2/ Run disk utility to verify and repair disks
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4/ Turn off TC at wall.
5/ Delete the sparse bundle (Created by TC)
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8/ Turn back on and select disk, newly named disc.
9/ Try backing up.
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