Setting up Time Capsule for first time

Hi, hoping that someone will be able to talk me through this process.
I currently have a Netopia wireless modem which provides our internet connection and the wireless set up for the house. Using the wireless system is are 2 iMac's,macbook pro,a windows PC,wireless printer,playstation,Wii, nintendo DS's and iphone and itouch.
I have bought a time capsule to back up photos,itunes etc.
I do not have any great understanding of how everything works so I am reluctant to go ahead and set up the Time Capsule in case I mess up the way things are currently running because I would not have the knowledge to solve it.
So from the research I have done, I think that given that the Netopia Router is currently not strong enough to reach all areas of the house ,my best bet is to use the time capsule as the router and let the netopia just be the modem?
However I'm hoping that some of you will be able to advise and tell me where to start. I stress again that I am not very computer savvy so if you can help you'll need to keep it simple.
Thanks in advance

Last night we installed a 2TB TC in place of a Netgear WNR2000 router linked to Virgin Media modem.
We have 2 Imacs, a Macbook, and two PC laptops, iPhones, games console etc.
The TC was simply swapped with the WNR2000, then when the TC was installed a new network password was set, we backed up our Imacs which took hours and now we have our HDs backed up on the TC, Airport & ethernet working fine at this time. My son did all of this and to be honest it seemed very quick.
The longest part is the initial backup of our hard drives to the TC which started off as being painfully slow, but after some Google research we stopped Spotlight from indexing the TC and everything accelerated 10x. I hope this is useful and will encourage you to make the change.
AJ

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I have a brand new macbook pro and time capsule 2tb 4th gen. I have been trying to set up the TC for some days now but it just won't work. Maybe it is because I live in China and I bought them in Canada (does not make sence but ok) but I keep on getting the message "your apple wi-fi base station does not a valid ip address"
I have an existing wifi connection so what I do is connect the modem to my TC (the cable that normally goes from modem to router -a chinese router provided by isp with an ip address on it and some admin things), then I open airport utility and follow the steps. I obviously do not get very far.. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? I tried hard reset, power turn-off for 24h and all youtube videos out there and I have yet to see the (green) light!
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Download and install the real utiity.. v6 is a drainer.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Since the modem you already have is likely a router.. setup the TC in bridge.
Go to 5.6 airport utility, manual setup, internet tab.
Connection sharing.. off, bridge mode.
update the TC and plug the modem into wan (but any port is fine in bridge). WAN port has the circle symbol and slightly spaced from the others.. nearest the usb and power end.
Now setup wireless.. either turn it off and keep using wireless in existing router.. if available.
Or setup wireless name and setup as per your requirement.. but note.. TC are regionalised.. those sold in North America do not offer China as a region. You need specific ones for that region. So be careful that you do not use wireless in the wrong channel or power settings as I doubt the Chinese authorities will take kindly to you.

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- Old media projects [photos / films] are moved to "My Media Backup" folder on Time Capsule and deleted on my macbook pro.
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You have basically destroyed the sparsebundle. This is just wrong. The sparsebundle is created by TM for its exclusive use.. what it will do to the files inside it is a mystery.. but you cannot now delete them.. you have permission to create and copy the files to the sparse bundle but not to delete them.
M*rde. I was afraid of that. Makes sense that if you modify the sparsebundle file exterior of Time Machine; how could it know what changes were made? So, I've got to start over. (groan).
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