Reset Airport with out resetting Time Capsule?

I have a Time Capsule and it currently is putting out 4 different networks that I at different times have created. Now I know how to delete them from my "preferred networks" under the advanced tab. But that doesn't delete the network. It just tells my computer to forget that one. But it still shows up in the wifi network dropdown menu on my iMac and all of my devices.
I have concluded that this is apparently impossible to delete. So now I just want to reset the entire wireless network. Reset the whole router. But it also has years of backed up data on the time capsule part of it. So I'm nervous about resetting the whole thing.
Please if anyone can help me I would appreciate it! I'm pulling my hair out over this!
-Hunter

Sorry, you have lost me.
Do you have another modem/router there that might have been provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) which is also providing wireless networks?
As far as I can tell, the only networks being provided by the Time Capsule are Lehmuller's Network and Lehmuller's Network 5 GHz.
To verify......Please click on the Finder (smiley face icon on the dock), then open Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click on the picture of the Time Capsule, then click Edit in the smaller window that appears
Click the Wireless tab at the top of the next window
What is the entry that you see in the box next to Wireless Network Name?
Then, click the Wireless Options button near the bottom of the window and check the next window to see if there is a check mark in the box next to 5 GHz network name.
If you only want to see Lehmuller's Network and do not want to see Lehmuller's Network 5 GHz, that will be an easy fix. Please advise.

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Cannot reset Time Capsule

I want to give a hard reset (I think that's what its called) when you push the button in with a pen or paperclip toward the rear, but my Time Capsule will not reset.
I want to reset it because I can no longer log into it for a manual setting change. I locate the TC with Airport Utility, click the time capsule at the left and click manual setup and nothing happens. So, I'd like to try and reset the thing, but it just won't even after holding the paperclip into the button for 10+ seconds. The button clearly is depressed but nothing happens.3
The Time Capsule is on and plugged in.

Suggest that you power down the Time Capsule and leave it off for 15-20 minutes. If you have them, power down any cordless phones and their transmitters that are within 25-30 feet of the Time Capsule or move them as far away as possible.
Temporarily, turn off the wireless on your Mac and connect it to one of the LAN <-> ports on the Time Capsule using an ethernet cable. Temporarily, turn off any other computers using wireless or other devices that use wireless like iPhones, etc. You only want the Time Capsule and your computer on to start.
Open AirPort Utility - Manual Setup to see if you can connect. If not, try the 10.0.1.1 and password entry again if possible.
Click on the word "Status" and you will see a message to explain why the amber light is blinking. Post that back if you are not sure what to do.
Moving one channel up or down won't provide much help if there is interference present. If the Time Capsule is working correctly, the Automatic setting for Channel will usually find the best available channel at any given time. If you guess at another channel and you are in a crowded wi-fi area, as I suspect may be the case, you may pick a channel that has even more interference present and you'll continue to have the wireless problems.
Leave the wireless off on your computer for 10-15 minutes to make sure you have a good internet connection. If yes, then you disconnect the ethernet cable from the computer to the Time Capsule and turn the wireless on at your computer. Check your connection. If OK, then you can start up the next wireless device and check that out for proper operation, etc.
Message was edited by: Bob Timmons

Safely Reset Time Capsule?

I am a support tech for hundreds of mac clients in my area. Personally, I see the eminent danger in having a hard drive that can fail tied to a router, which can also fail. If either fails, you either have a really heavy router, or a hard drive that cant be connected to anything without being removed from its casing. They are still too new to know how this will be handled in future versions, but let's hope people wont have to take these in to be able to swap out a drive as a home user, which is easily achieved in most external drive situations.
Several clients of mine have purchased Time Capsule already, and I have set many up in an array of configurations that seemed to work well, some for longer than others so far. There are several issues, such as wireless drops, WAN internet drops, and the gambit of normal issues someone could experience with any router.
The problem is this: across the globe, if any home or business user calls their ISP and has no network connectivity, which is a common scenario especially with PPOE, the FIRST thing and ISP will say is to disconnect the power from the router and reset it. I have spoken to every ISP available and this is common practice.
There is no power button on the time capsule, and no eject button on the macs connected to it.... So I am assuming apple was smart enough to build an auto disconnect and safe spin down procedure via a small battery into it somehow specifically for when you pull the power cord from it abruptly to reset it. That is the only option other than going into airport utility, which is NOT what ISPs tell people to do, and there is no clear warning on the Time Capsule itself. LOL. (I really dont think they did plan for this, but I would love to be told they did in this topic, otherwise the designers were really not thinking this out). I would hate to think that almost everyone who has purchased this device will have hard drive failures if they are unknowingly backing up to the drive via time machine on any computer in the network and the ISP asks them to reset it by pulling the power cable!)
I already fried one of my normal external drives when Leopard locked up permanently and there was no option but to hold down the power key on my MacBook. Thank you Leopard!
Can anyone put me at ease and say Time Capsule is not the next big blunder? I have a hard time switching out a good airport extreme, Dlink, linksys, or any other router for a client with something I am afraid of that seems to have a lot of potential problems. Sure it will earn me money when these fail as I will have to go help people recover their lives, and hopefully their memories. But I am a person of integrity and would like to recommend the right option before I plug in any more of these. I couldn't find all the answers easily browsing around so I leave it up to you to answer this for me!

Hei
I see your point, but you sure have another Time Machine backup disc on a safe place outside your home? I looked in the manula which tells you the is a reset button
30 Chapter 4 Tips and Troubleshooting
If Your Time Capsule Isn’t Responding
Try unplugging it and plugging it back in.
If your Time Capsule stops responding completely, you may need to reset it to the
factory default settings.
Important: This erases all of the current settings and resets them to the settings that
came with your Time Capsule.
To return your Time Capsule to the factory settings:
m Use something pointed to press and hold the reset button until the status light flashes
quickly (about 5 seconds).
Your Time Capsule resets with the following settings:
Â Your Time Capsule receives its IP address using DHCP.
Â The network name is reset to Apple Network XXXXXX (where XXXXXX is replaced
with the last six digits of the AirPort ID).
Â The Time Capsule password is reset to public.
If your Time Capsule still isn’t responding, try the following:
1Unplug your Time Capsule.
2Use something pointed to press and hold the reset button while you plug in your Time
Capsule.

HT3728 Reset Time Capsule password.

Must I reset Time Capsule in order to change my password? (I have *not* forgotten my password; I simply want to change it.)
Thanks.

A) how long the password lenght it is avaiable for this time capsule
WPA uses either a passphrase (shared secret) that is comprised of 8 to 63 characters or a fixed-length of 64 Hex characters. These can include special characters and spaces.
B) how to reset the time capsule
Please review the following Apple Support article for how to reset your Time Capsule.
C) how to change the ssid
You would change the SSID, what Apple calls the Wireless Network Name, by using the AirPort Utility, as follows:
Run the AirPort Utility.
Select your Time Capsule, and then, select Edit.
Select the Network tab.
Enter the desired name (SSID) in the Wireless Network Name field.
Select Update, and then, allow the Time Capsule to restart.

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I recently purchased a brand new Airport Time Capsule 2TB. I already am using the previous generation time capsule to back up all my computers data. May I ask how can I complement the usage with my new time capsule?

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You are in the typical catch22.. you cannot use the TC without setting it up.. you cannot set it up without Lion.. so you can install the latest utility.
Do you have any reasonably current iOS devices.. they can run the iOS version of the utility.. that will allow you to set up the TC.
Or invite a friend with a laptop running at least Lion
Or take the TC back and get a plain USB hard drive and backup to that.

Find out my time capsule's mac-address ?

Hi,
I need to find out my time-capsule's mac-address to allow it on my network (ethernet mac-address).
I found some answers to that question but unfortunatly with the old version of airport utility.
Thanks, Léo

1. The MAC address is printed on the label of the rubber mat on the bottom of the TC.. right there on the TC itself.. you might need a magnifying glass to see it if like me you are getting old.
2. Download and use the REAL airport utility.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Since apple knew the one they supplied in Lion was useless.. they released on the same day the original version updated for lion.. so you could do something.. ie a utility that has utility.. rather than utility to look pretty.

How do I use Back to My Mac with a new Time Capsule if I don't have a MobileMe account?

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See the following:
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How can I add a Time Capsule 3TB to a network with an older Time Capsule 2TB?

I have a 2010 Macbook Pro with 500 GB HD and a 2013 Macbook Pro with 1TB HD. I am using Mavericks and will migrate to OS X Yosemite when it becomes available. I tried backing both up with my older Time Capsule with 2 TB of space but it isn't enough. So, today I bought the new Time Capsule 3 TB to add on to my network. I want to use both TCs in order to have 5 TB for backup.
I have a Brother printer and my Comcast Cable Modem connected to the old Time Capsule. I also have an Apple TV with 1080p HD that uses the internet wirelessly through the old Time Capsule.
My first question is what should connect to what and in what order? Should the new TC connect directly to the old TC and if so, with what cable?
My 2nd question is: Can I move several 100 GB of old data that I rarely use onto the 3TB TC so that I could access the data from either computer whenever I need it, without having the data on either computer?
Thank you.

This is a pretty easy setup.
Basically just plug the new TC WAN port into the old TC LAN port.
Run the airport utility on the computer and it should recognise that the new TC is plugged into another one.. and setup bridge mode and create a wireless network.. if not you can jump in and edit it at the end of the setup.
You could also swap things around with the new TC as the main router.. and the old one as the secondary.. but people are experiencing some issues with WAN connection to some cable modems.. so you need to be prepared if you have issues to go back to the original setup.
You will use an ethernet patch cable to connect them. I recommend if you have them in the same area place them at least a couple of meters apart.. so buy a 2-3M patch cable at least.. (8-9ft). Even better would be to install the new TC closer to the clients that will use it.. to improve wireless in dark corners of your house.. but all that can come later.
My 2nd question is: Can I move several 100 GB of old data that I rarely use onto the 3TB TC so that I could access the data from either computer whenever I need it, without having the data on either computer?
This is a lot harder question.. not in how to do it.. it is simple.. copy and paste files onto the new TC.. that is not the issue..
The problem is backup of the files that no longer exist on the computers. Ironically the TC is problematic for one major reason.. it cannot back itself up.. nor can Time Machine (TM) backup network drives. Even though TM uses the TC to store the backup it cannot actually work to backup the TC. The problems are not insurmountable.. you can use a third party backup.. eg CCC but it will be extremely slow. A better strategy if one of your computers is a desktop is to install an external drive and share it to the network. The data rate will be hugely better.. and TM can backup as per normal.

How do I extend an existing wireless network with a 2nd time capsule? I want to tether them with a gigabit ethernet connection.

I am having trouble with extending a wireless network using 2 timecapsules (1 is 1 terrbyte hdd, the other has a 2TB HDD.) The first one is connected to the WAN (cable modem) and our LAN. I would like to connect the 2nd one to the ethernet LAN and have it 'rebroadcast' the 1st ones wireless n network in order to expand the overall range of the network. Your help is very much appreciated.

Suggest that you download and install the much more useful AirPort Utility 5.6 for Mac OS X Lion.
I assume that Time Capsule 1 is operating correctly at this time.
Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility 5.6
Select Time Capsule 1 and click Manual Setup
Click the Wireless tab below the row of icons and make a note of each of the setttings on this Wireless page.
Make sure that the Ethernet cable is connected to the WAN "O" port on Time Capsule 2.
Open up AirPort Utility and select Time Capsule 2 and click Manual Setup
Click the Wireless tab below the icons and enter the exact same settings that you wrote down for Time Capsule 1
Click the Internet icon, then click the Internet Connection tab
Make sure that the settings look like this:
Connect Using = Ethernet
Connection Sharing = Off (Bridge Mode)
Click Update and allow 25-30 seconds for Time Capsule 2 to restart to a green light
Very important......perform a power cycle of the entire network as follows:
Power off every device in any order that you wish
Wait a minute
Power up the modem and let it run for minute by itself
Power up Time Capsule 1 the same way
Power up Time Capsule 2 the same way
Continue starting devices one at a time the same way until the entire network is back up

Using an Airport Extreme and a Time Capsule at the same time

Guys I have had an Airport Extreme and a Time Capsule running together for nearly a year now and over the last few days the TC has been behaving badly. I changed its settings and now I'm in a mess. No, I can't remember the previous settings
Does anyone have a definitive list of the settings I need please? I have an ethernet cable modem, and the Airport Extreme is plugged into that as the main router. Two computers and the Time Capsule are plugged into the Airport Extreme using ethernet. The Time Capsule at the moment is just used as a network drive for Time Machine, but at some point I want to move it, with a long ethernet cable, and use it for extending the wifi in the house.
1. Should I connect the TC using its WAN port or one of the other ethernet ports? At present it's one of the other ones.
2. What TC settings should I use to have it function purely as a hard drive? At the moment there's some kind of conflict and my internet connection drops every 30 minutes.
3. Then later, what settings will I need to get the ethernet connected TC to extend the range of my wifi?
I read the Apple doc about WDS and tried setting the TC up that way. Then I discovered there is no WDS option in the AE Wireless settings. Only "Create a wireless network" or "extend a wireless network". The same setting on the TC has these options: "Create a wireless network" "Participate in a WDS network" or "extend a wireless network". Both devices have firmware 7.5.2. It didn't work with only the TC set for WDS, of course, but after that I can't get it back the way it was - which wasn't reliable anyway
Any help in exactly what the Wireless and Internet settings should be would be massively useful. Thanks!

If you use the extreme as a router then the tc should be connected via its wan port to one of the lan ports on the extreme. Tc should be set up in bridge mode. Basically you could set it up to create another wireless network beside the one created by the extreme. There is no need to use WDS or extend the other network.
Use the same SSID and password for both machines. Computers will connect to the strongest signal.

Airport Extreme and a Time Capsule - config recommendations?

Hi!
So I find myself (in a fortunate position?!) with a new Airport Extreme and a Time Capsule.
I have very few requirements - I would like to be able to connect to the Internet wirelessly, and I'd like to be able to backup a couple of Macs using Time Machine (also wirelessly). I realise that the TC can provide me with that functionality nice and easily, but since I have an AE and a TC, I figure it would be good to make use of both, and so I wanted to ask if anyone had any recommendations for a useful configuration?
I think there are 2 basic options I could make use of (have I missed any?!):
1) Use AE as base station and connect the TC to it as an external HD
2) Use AE as base station and also make TC available for back up wirelessly
Does anyone have any thoughts on the above? If you'd recommend 2), what would be your suggested approach as I think I'm right in saying that 2) could be done in several ways? Roaming? WDS? Just setup TC as a stand-alone wireless box with no internet connection? (does this latter approach mean I could connect to the internet and backup at the same time - I'm guessing not?)
If 1) is the way to go, is it just a case of putting an ethernet cable between the 2 boxes?
Any thoughts would be hugely appreciated!
Many thanks

I would use the Time Capsule as the wireless base station connected to the modem. Then I'd use the Airport Extreme to extend the network or to create a roaming network (ethernet cable betwee the units), whichever worked best in the premises. Naturally, Time Capsule would be used for backups of all machines equipped with Time Machine. Have never hooked up any Apple equipment but from my understanding of it, this is what I'd try.

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