SLOW shutdown due to Time Capsule

Ever since I've set Time Capsule as the backup volume, Logout/Shutdown is taking like 5 minutes to complete.
When I'm not connected to the network, or on a network that my Time Capsule isn't connected, everything but the desktop picture would disappear, but then it would stay in that state for about 5 minutes, and then finally shut down.
(By the way, when I'm connected to the network with Time Capsule, it would recover space on my FileVaulted home folder, perform a backup, and then shutdown as usual)
I do have FileVault turned on, which backsup the home folder on logout or shutdown... but doesn't Snow Leopard know that the Time Capsule doesn't exist?
I'm absolutely sure it's due to the Time Capsule + FileVault combination, because turning off Time Machine or choosing my old USB HD for backup doesn't cause the shutdown process to slow down.
Is there anyway around this problem?
It's quite annoying when I need to get going quickly but the Mac seems to never shutdown.

Yoshihide K. wrote:
I'm absolutely sure it's due to the Time Capsule + FileVault combination, because turning off Time Machine or choosing my old USB HD for backup doesn't cause the shutdown process to slow down.
Is there anyway around this problem?
Probably not, as long as you're using FileVault. You're stuck with Time Machine trying extra hard to back up your home folder, since it can't do it while you're signed-on.
Let me ask you this: do you really need to have your entire home folder encrypted? All your preferences, settings, emails, photos, and videos? Even all your documents?
That also prevents you from browsing or restoring individual items, which is one of the main features of Time Machine.
What a number of folks do instead is make an encrypted disk image via Disk Utility, and put their sensitive documents there. Then all changes can be backed-up hourly, and individual items (except those in the encrypted disk image) can be browsed and restored from your backups.

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Slow shutdown after installing time capsule. Please help

Hi everyone,
I'm experiencing some troubles when restarting or shutting down my iMac Intel 8gb RAM late 2010. It takes longer than usual ( before I buy my 4th gen. Time capsule it Was very quick) and now, after I installed it I can see the grey spinning wheel and a geey blank screen for several seconds before it goes off.
Things I already tried
. reparing permissions from Lion recovery mode (some of them can not be repaired. I already tried almost everything)
. Onyx all maintenance options passed.
. Disabled time machine
. Deleted home folder preferences from terminal (revia reset password )
My iMac Is running Lion 10.7.2
I've configured my time capsule in bridge mode, with automatic backup copies
I'm sharing Time capsule disk over wan and Internet.
I've configured iCloud with back To my Mac, documents and the rest of options
Please, I need some help¡. Can you help me?
Thanks in advance,
C. Llerandi

Try doing a Safe Mode reboot by holding down the Shift key when you hear the start-up tone. When the progress bar appears you can release the key. A Safe Reboot will clear some of the caches, it's possible one became corrupt. If that doesn't work do both a SMC and PRAM reset, you may need to do each 2-3x.
SMC RESET
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and all peripherals.
Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
Release the power button.
Attach the computers power cable.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
PRAM RESET
Shut down the computer.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.

Back up is very slow on 2 tb time capsule. After 2 days only 60 gb of 320 gb completed. Have connected ethernet cable. Any suggestions?

Back up is very slow on 2 tb time capsule. After 2 days only 60 gb of 320 gb completed. Have connected ethernet cable. Any suggestions?

Yes, that's terribly slow. You should get somewhere in the neighborhood of 20-24 GB/hour via Ethernet, assuming there isn't a lot of conflicting network traffic or your Mac's CPU is under very heavy load.
Are you sure you're actually using the Ethernet connection, instead of WIFI? To check, turn Airport off. If the backup fails, it's on WIFI. In that case, you need to set Ethernet as the "preferred" network, via System Preferences > Network. Click the "gear" icon at the bottom of the sidebar and select Set Service order. Then drag Ethernet above Airport. When both Airport and Ethernet are on, that will make OSX select Ethernet over Airport.
If that doesn't help, see #D2 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

Slow USB transfer to Time Capsule

I recently purchased a Time Capsule and have decided in addition to its Time Machine back-up duties to use it to store my iTunes Media, which I had previously had on an external USB HDD (and then use the external USB to back-up Media drive through a folder-syncing app, since Time Machine won't recognise a networked drive). I've connected the USB drive to the TC, and attempted to drag and drop the iTunes Media folder from the external USB to to TC HD.
The estimated time for completion was 7 days for 300GB of data.
Any suggestions as to what is going wrong? Please tell me that the TC isn't sending the data over wireless from the USB disk to my MacBook Pro in order to then send it back over wireless to the TC to write it to that disk! So far the TC isn't looking like a great investment - Time Machine takes so long to back up (spending 10 - 15 minutes preparing the backup and then another 10-15 minutes to write 20 - 30MB of data) that I've turned it off, because the process makes watching my iTunes content jerky. And with this data transfer problem, I'm almost ready to give up.
I'm working with a 2TB Time Capsule, 15" ealry 2011 MacBook Pro (8GB RAM, 250GB SSD), OS X Lion and a 1TB USB HDD

Please tell me that the TC isn't sending the data over wireless from the USB disk to my MacBook Pro in order to then send it back over wireless to the TC to write it to that disk!
Exactly what is happening.. sorry about that chief!! (Maxwell Smart voice).
Unfortunately if you have the external drive connected to the TC and want to write the data to the TC that is what happens.. there is no way it can directly copy since the copy is running from the laptop.
Much better to plug the external drive straight into the laptop.. and plug the laptop into the TC by ethernet cable and do the copy in one shot.. then you can do other backups (your normal incremental time machine) by wireless.
Alway try and eliminate double hop wireless.. it is incredibly slow due to having single channel half duplex operation.
Even if you have to use a separate device to do it.. the speed will be much better.
And it is better to use a usb plugged into the TC just as a backup of the TC.. use the TC itself to store your itunes rather than a drive hanging off it.

Slow transfer rate to time capsule - 2nd generation - mb pro 5ghz

alright
have time capsule with dual networks, macbook pro with n enabled connected to 5ghz network with full bars, yet while copying files to the time capsule, it seems slow
500kbs per second
about 7 min to copy a 744mb file to time capsule (according to finder)
time capsule connected via ethernet to 2wire 2701hg modem + wireless router ( wireless turned off )
configure ipv4 using : dhcp
ethernet wan port: automatic
connection sharing : share a public ip adress
ipv6 : link local only
wireless options
country - mexico
multicast rate - high
transmit power - 100%
use wide channels
any ideas?
thanks in advance

Hi,
In the Manual Setup->Advanced->Logs and Statistics page of Airport Utility you'll find information on wireless signal quality for each client connected. Primarily, signal quality will determine the connection speed of your file transfers, the best you can do to improve things is to find a wireless channel with the least interference, Manual Setup->Wireless.
My Macbook Air connection is showing -66 Signal, -89 Noise, 122 Rate which gives me a wireless file transfer rate in bursts from 500kbps to 22Mbps. Time Capsule is not the fastest combo device, even file transfers over LAN Ethernet are around 50% slower than a regular Airport Extreme and I've found transfers to the disk from a GigE connected Mac Pro top out at around 60Mbps.
The Time Capsule is more useful as a convenience tool than speed I think so just be patient.

Painfully slow wireless connection with Time Capsule

I have recently bought and changed over my home wireless to a Time Capsule 2TB, which I wanted for both the backup and the ease in home networking. I have set up the wireless network and since day one it has been painfully slow! I have created two wireless networks, one for 2.4GHz and the other for 5GHz. I have been reading all over the web and boards but to no avail. Any suggestions? I am about to give up on the time capsule completely! I couldn't even download my podcast tonight.
Help!

Firstly plug in directly by ethernet to be sure there isn't a network issue on wan side.
Are you testing on multiple computers .. Mac and/or PC?? Which ones. and what network cards are being used?
Try and remove anything that uses G wireless and throw away any B wireless. It will not work together with N even if it is an option.
Turn off the guest network if you have it on.
Have you used a wireless analyser like kismac or inssider for pc? Find the free channels and set the wireless to that. Use no security at first to test.. briefly.. and then select wpa2 personal. Is there any difference?
Do you have another wireless router running?? Were you using a different wireless router for comparison?

Slow as a snail Time Capsule - suggestions please?

I have been using a 1Tb Time Capsule for backing up about 600 Gb of mainly image information along with my main HD for a year or so without any major problems. The drive was full a long time ago but (as I understood it) when new material comes along the oldest backup info is deleted automatically. Yesterday for some reason (after a major Lightroom reshuffle) the backup routine stopped with a message saying "Your backup requires 300 Gb of space but you only have 250 GB (or along those lines).
In the end I erased all on the TC and started again. No problem except the transfer speed has slowed to a snail's pace. Calculating the speed at the moment it will take over 24 hours to backup 490 Gb. Is this correct? The TC is connected by regular ethernet cable, I have a MacPro 2 x 2.66 with 8Gb RAM and 3 internal hard drives. How can I speed up this process? Would I be better off with regular external hard drives connected by firewire?
How come I can download a Compact Flash card of 8 Gb in about 5 minutes and it takes half an hour or so fo the equivalent amount of data to backup on the TC? Thank you.

Colin Cadle wrote:
In the end I erased all on the TC and started again. No problem except the transfer speed has slowed to a snail's pace. Calculating the speed at the moment it will take over 24 hours to backup 490 Gb. Is this correct? The TC is connected by regular ethernet cable
Roughly, yes. It varies greatly, of course, and the first part of a full backup is considerably slower (since the Applications and System folders are the first to be backed-up, and contain hundreds of thousands of mostly very small files). But overall you should get, very roughly, 20-24 GB/hour via Ethernet.
There are a couple of things you can do that might speed it up. See #D2 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum).
Would I be better off with regular external hard drives connected by firewire?
Oh, yes! With F/W 400 expect roughly 50-55 GB/hour overall; F/W 800 80-85 GB/hour. For a laptop, the convenience of wireless backups is great, but for a desktop, it's a real drag, pardon the pun.
How come I can download a Compact Flash card of 8 Gb in about 5 minutes and it takes half an hour or so fo the equivalent amount of data to backup on the TC? Thank you.
There's a lot more to be done with a Time Machine backup than just copying files. They have a very complex structure, with things extensively linked together so Time Machine can do it's "magic" of only backing-up what's changed, but having each backup be a full one.

Why is my wifi so slow on my Airport Time Capsule

I just got am Airport Time Capsule 2TB for my 2100sq ft house. The Time Capsule sits in the middle of the house, and my iPhone, iPad and MacBook all have "Excellent" Connection according to my AirPort Utility. However, my AppleTV is only getting "Good" connection, and operating at a Data Rate of 13Mb/s and -76 dBm.
For the 6 things I have connected to the Time Capsule, it's usually fine. But when I'm trying to watch a movie I rent on iTunes or NetFlix, I notce that everthing is etiher grainey half the time, or the AppleTV freezes and pauses while it uploads more content.
I upgraded to the Time Capsule for the backup storage, and becuase it soudned like it was a stronger wifi router for my AppleTV and Samsung Smart TV. My AirPort Express used to be a little slower and would leave my movies a little grainey, but it seems much worse with the Time Capsule.
Are there settings I should set to boost the connection and speed? Or, is this just actually how the Time Capsule is?

If you take the ipad and place it right next to the ATV does the signal drop to the same level as the ATV?
If the ATV is in a poor spot in the house it could be affected by even tiny placement differences.
Some people do find the new TC worse..
Can you try using the express as a wireless extender particularly for the ATV and Smart TV. Place the express in a spot where it gets excellent signal from both the TC and is able to repeat with excellent signal to the TVs.
There are no settings to boost speed. Actually the apple routers are pretty well devoid of settings of any kind.
But I would do the following.
Reset to factory.. use all short names with no spaces and pure alphanumeric for everything.. TC name, wireless names and ensure disk share name is data.
Set the name of 2.4ghz to say TC24ghz and 5ghz to say TC5ghz
Now set the channel of the 2.4ghz in wireless options.. test 11, 8, 6, 1 in that order.
Unfortunately Apple have taken away the ability to set 5ghz channel.. even though it looks like it works it doesn't.
No improvement.. well consider returning it if it doesn't do what you want it is not fit for use.

Slow back-up on Time Capsule

I have had my iMac since 2009 and the same date for my Time Capsule. I am a paranoid back-up person, so I back-up to my Time Capsule and I also back-up to an external hard drive via Firewire. The same amount of back-up material takes about 5 minutes to the external drive via Firewaire and it takes about an hour to the Time Capsule. The Time Capsule is connected via Ethernet and the Wi-Fi is turned off. This has always puzzled me as to why the Time Capsule back-up is far slower. Any thoughts?

You need to differentiate actual speed of file copying to the TC and back again with Time Machine.
Time Machine is a hugely complex piece of software.. and it has a lot of chatter between the computer and the backup.
Please look at how TM works in Pondini's great KB.
http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html
Also load the widget A1 in the troubleshooting so you can easily access the log. Here is a typical operation of backup.
There is loads of extras .. the copying of the few files in the incremental backup is the minor part.
Starting automatic backup
Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Ray%20H;AUTH=[email protected]/data
Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/data using URL: afp://Ray%20H;AUTH=[email protected]/data
Disk image /Volumes/data/minimeray.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Using file event preflight for macos
Will copy (3.9 MB) from macos
Found 70 files (3.9 MB) needing backup
2.57 GB required (including padding), 1.13 TB available
Copied 2044 files (27.2 MB) from volume macos.
Using file event preflight for macos
Will copy (392 KB) from macos
Found 22 files (392 KB) needing backup
2.57 GB required (including padding), 1.13 TB available
Copied 1481 files (17.1 MB) from volume macos.
Created new backup: 2015-01-19-082802
Starting post-backup thinning
Deleted /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/minimeray/2015-01-18-080642 (28.5 MB)
Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
Backup completed successfully.
Ejected Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/data/minimeray.sparsebundle
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
To check that the files are transferring at correct speed.. just copy a single very file using finder.. eg around 1GB to the TC and then back again and get the speeds.. you should manage 30-50MB/s .. anything much slower than that should be investigated.
But you need to allow TM as long as it needs.

Slow reading speed on Time Capsule disk

I get terribly slow TC disk speed when measured with Black Magic tool using Wifi and even slower on Ethernet.
I get low speeds on Wifi but even lower speeds on Ethernet connection. See attached pics below.
Wifi:
My TC is on Wifi using N network and 5ghz and it seems the speed I get over the Wifi is reasonable. Based on Pondini blog, here are approximate speeds for USB, ethernet and Wifi:
http://pondini.org/TM/29.html
Pondini's figures don't seem to take into consideration a 5Ghz Wifi connection, which should be about 2x faster than 2.4ghz (144Mbps vs 300Mbps). So I am assuming the transfer would be around 20-40 GB per hour which was roughly what I experienced when doing testing using file transfers (and slightly below USB 2.0). TC will not operate on this maximum speed as there are other factors, such as overhead, internet connection and TC hardware itself.
It seems to be reasonable, it takes me about 4-6 hours to backup 100GB Time Machine backup. Is this amount of time normal? I assume yes.
Ethernet:
Recently I needed to restore a file from TimeMachine. I started to browse but the browsing using the TimeMachine app was horribly slow. So I thought using Ethernet cable instead of Wifi would make things better. No way. So I tested the speed of the hard drive using the Black Magic tool and below is what I get - the speed of Reading on Ethernet is much slower than Wifi.
If I interpret the numbers correctly, the Black Magic tool shows MB/s, in which case 11-15MB/s should be about 80-120 mbps, which is roughly the G speed on Wifi and roughly about 50% of the maximum speed of N network?
Are these calculations correct?
If these numbers are correct, the results are acceptable, as I would not expect the Time Capsule Hard Disk to reach the maximum speeds provided through the Ethernet or Wifi connection.
However, what concerns me is why is the reading speed through Ethernet so slow. It's only 3.5 MB/s.
Activity monitor is not much help, it's hard to figure out where is the issue.
My Setup:
MacBook 2012, Mavericks 10.9.4, Time Capsule 2012, Ethernet, Wifi N 5Ghz. No other machines or appliances active. Internet and network seems to operate fine, no issues.
This is ETHERNET:
THIS IS WIFI:

OSX:
Yes there are many issues with Mavericks, it almost feels like OSX 11.0 and not 10.9.5 from the bugginess. I can't speak for how the system is changing from inside but most of it doesn't affect me, so it's mostly the annoying things that pop up and the good things that just go away because Apple keep "dummy-fying" the OS.
I was considering downgrade to Snow Leopard couple of months back but it would not support the hardware. It wasn't so much editing the supported hardware list to installation but the drivers are missing for newer hardware in SL. I used to mess around with Windows but I am not ready to mess OSX yet. I still keep Snow Leopard on one of my machines and I always like to go back to it as it feels consistent and light.
Speed:
You found the reason.
1. Yes I turned off wireless and ethernet when testing one or the other.
2. Ethernet is 100baseTX and grayed out.. because..
3. I should have realized it's because I use USB ethernet Apple adapter. But given the USB has 480Mbs speed, after taking into account some overhead, the speed should still be higher than Wifi. Or maybe not.. I made assumption it should be fast enough so I didn't even consider that could be bottleneck on it's own.
TC:
If your TC is 2012 then it is Gen4.. .... recommend you downgrade the firmware to 7.6.1.....
Yes, I upgraded to latest firmware. Yes, it's TC Gen 4. By mistake, I didn't know there are issues. But soon I realized for instance Apple has removed the setting in Airport to force "N" radio for network only. To simplify things, you get now combined N, B, G whether you like it or now. Now things may interfere with your other networks and if you happen to use non-apple clients connecting to AirPort, you end up with hodge-podge N and B/G connectivity that slows down the network even more.
If Apple releases the BASH update, it probably needs to be upgraded anyways? I assume their software on Airport is also Unix / Linux flavour?

Slow DNS Resolution using Time Capsule

Hello,
I'm using a time capsule as my main internet router and wireless access point, and I've noticed a significant delay before web pages begin to download. In trying to troubleshoot this, I came across a very helpful utilitity called the Netalyzr from Berkley. Using this tool, I'm able to see that there is a significant delay in name lookups using the time capsule DNS proxy capability. There's not a lot of documentation on this, but it appears that instead of handing clients the designated DNS servers configured in DHCP, it hands out its own address to the clients as the DNS server and makes the DNS request to the configured servers. I've included the verbage from the Netalyzer tool below.
Your ISP's DNS resolver requires 2200 msec to conduct an external lookup. It takes 81 msec for your ISP's DNS resolver to lookup a name on our server.
This is particularly slow, and you may see significant performance degradation as a result.
As you can see, this causes almost a 2.5 second "pause" before the lookup is even returned. However, if I hard code the designated DNS servers into this client (Macbook air running Lion), I get the following result.
Your ISP's DNS resolver requires 110 msec to conduct an external lookup. It takes 81 msec for your ISP's DNS resolver to lookup a name on our server.
This is a significant improvement over the lookup using the proxy capabilities of the Time Capsule. This leads me to believe that the DNS "proxying" that the time capsule is doing is really slow.
I'm using opendns as my provider in both scenarios.
Is this a known issue, and if so, is there an existing fix or a planned fix for this?
Best,
Eric

Frankly I just don't believe those analysers.. not until I can prove it myself.
Do a very simple test..
Open terminal and ping a website you have never opened before.
You should do this from a PC or Mac on the network using ethernet. Just to keep crummy wireless responses out of it. And do it without internet activity going on.
Do it a second time, and it should be instantaneous now having the address resolved and held in the cache.
If you get a significant lag before the address is resolved to actual IP, there maybe something wrong. And the first test then would be to change the DNS server to your local ISP not opendns.. because the routing to opendns might also be an issue.
You can also test by removing the TC from the network..plug a computer directly to the modem and just browse.. compare that to speed with the TC. I know it isn't exactly scientific but a 2.5sec delay in dns resolution you will notice it. It is important to connect to stuff that is outside your normal pattern. Otherwise it should just be in the cache.
Otherwise it is unlikely to really exist.

Slow transfer speed on time capsule

First of all im new to this whole MAC thing. I have a new IMac that can communicate with an attached Time Capsule. I can send files to and from the Time Capsule on the IMac at a decent rate.
I am having trouble with the Win & PC that I have also got on the same network. It can see the Time Capsule OK and can also send files to and get files from the Time Capsule OK, but the speed at which it does so is very slow as compared to the MAC.
I am getting about 2.5 MB/sec. I have a wireless N card on the WIN machine and by all apparent standards WIN shows the wireless connection at 802.11N with all signal bars with a connection speed of 144Mbps
Is there something I can do to speed this up ?
Thank you, Erich

The mac is at 195 - 250 on a regular basis.
To get that speed the mac is connecting on the 5ghz band.. The Mac also auto swaps bands.. PC cannot do that.
Apple restrict 2.4ghz to max 150mbps which will be 130 or 144mbps you are getting.
The best idea is to force the TC to give out different names for the two bands.. in the wireless setup give 5ghz a different name.. force the PC to join 5ghz.
The connection over 5Ghz is at a solid 300 on the PC and 450 on the Mac. Again, why cant they both connect at the same if they are using the same standards?
They are not connecting at the same standard.. PC is using a 300mbps card .. if you want 450mbps you will have to buy a compliant 450mbps card. This is new and really not part of the N standard.
And I tried to change the wireless channel on the PC USB adaptor but cant find an option for that under wireless properties. There are a lot of things to change, just not that.
You change channel on Tx.. not the Rx.. ie the host not the client.. all changes to wireless channels are made on the TC.

Super slow internet connection with time capsule.

Time Capsule wireless internate speed is insanely slow its super anoying, i have 15mb from comcast, and speedtest its scoring under 3.5mb down and 0.06mb up with a ping of 1025ms yees 1025ms this is unacceptable its almost impossible to use the internet please i need some help.

How can I get my time capsule to work like it used to?
Your TC is too old.. the power supply is on the edge of dying. The hard disk is probably also on its last legs..
The wireless card itself might be nearing EOL.. it is now 4years old.. or a bit more.. most stuff now is really not made to last more than 3years.. and the early TC tended to die in droves at 2years.
If you are prepared for some DIY.. you can fix it.
https://sites.google.com/site/lapastenague/a-deconstruction-of-routers-and-modem s/apple-time-capsule-repair/repair-type3
I have several suggestions. At various prices and difficulty.
I would replace the hard drive.. it is out of warranty and has run in a super hot environment that is outside its spec.. and still it refused to die.. at the very least run a full pass erase from the disk utility, and see if error come up or the drive is slow. It might be weak read areas of the drive.
Frankly .. unless you like the challenge, it is simply time for a new one.

Slow internet conection from time capsule

I got the Time Capsule to replace my Trendnet TEW-633gr router and use as back-up slash storage. I also just bought a Macbook Pro but have not received it yet. I also just replaced my cable modem with the Motorola SB6121 becuase my speed had dropped of severely for weeks and couldnt just sit around and wait for repair service to arrive. The new modem fixed my problem when connected to the Trendnet. So I start the process for getting the Time Cap up and running which was anything but smooth. Im new to Apple products(minus the iphone) so I could bare some of the blame, but with that said....I have built my last few computers so I have a decent working knowledge. I am also really excited about the new mac comming but I need to rant a little about my first experience with owning an apple product.
First off, the instructions leave much to the imagination and they seemed little scatter brained(kinda like me atm.) I download Airport Utilty and it finds my TC. I hit continue. It searches and such then an error code. Repeated this a few times with error code(s) again. I finally get it up and running after a little prodding. YAY! exited for...slow interent again. Needless to say sad/frustrated. Hooked up the old trendnet and everything is fine.
My questions are these...
Is there some sort of compatibility issue between my TC and modem/PC's?
Can I just use the Storage on the TC via my old router via ehternet cable?
When I get my mac should the setup go smoothly?
Really any suggestions/tips on using the TC only or TC/router is what Im after.
Thanks

If the router is off on the 2wire..
the router function on my 2WIRE Modem is already turned off.
then the TC has to be in router mode and you must use pppoe authentication. otherwise you are really double NATting which could cause issues. You stated in line 3 your TC is bridged.
set to bridge on time capsule.
Is the 2wire a wireless modem router? If so the wireless could interfere with the TC.
Connect using the 2wire in router mode. and the TC in bridge.
If the 2wire is wireless, turn wireless off in the TC. Do you get better speeds now?
If you run two wireless routers next to each other you might need to fix and lock channels. There are only 3 non-overlapping channels at 2.4ghz.. 1, 6, 11.. pick one for the TC and pick another for the 2wire. The MBP is perhaps using 5ghz.. but the iphone is stuck using 2.4ghz. So you need to fix this up.
Tell us more.

Slow data transfer with Time Capsule on 802.11n ?

Hi,
Actually, I don't know where to start. But let's explain my setup first:
My iMac (wired) and AppleTV (wireless) are connected to the Time Capsule (802.11n, 5Ghz)
My girlfriend's MacBook and 2 x iPhone 2G's (wireless) are connected to an Airport Extreme Base station (802.11b/g compatible).
The Time Capsule and AEBS are connected and show two different networks.
Now the problem:
When I copy files from e.g. the iMac to the MacBook or to the Apple TV, it's very slow. I've used scp to copy a 200 mb file and it took about 1.20 minutes (at 2.5MB/s). I've did the same when the iMac was connected over wireless and it took about 3.45 to 4.30 minutes (at 1.0MB/s).
I'm not sure if this IS slow, but it certainly feels like it. 802.11n should be around 100 Mb/s in practice and 802.11b/g around 20-25 Mb/s.
By the way: downloading from the Internet is excellent, I get the full download/upload speed my provider offers for my subscription.
Second, I added the signal strength/noise levels for the Time Capsule attached devices. They vary around -68Db signal, -90Db noise.
The question is: are these levels normal ? What should be higher or lower ?
Thanks in advance !
Rutger

The new Airport Extremes and Time Capsules suffers from terrible performance over the 5GHz band and it's a problem that not only affects me and you, but hundreds of thousands of other owners.
Nobody knows if it's a firmware problem or the Marvell chips inside that's the problem, and Apple hasn't said or done anything for months.
I'm still hoping for a firmware update to solve this, but if it doesn't get fixed soon enough, I'm gonna return it and go back to backing up to wired disk and my rock solid Airport Express.
Not the happiest answer, but at least you have a clue now.
Cheers,
Koski

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