Time Capsule and PC Connectivity when Airport Utility is not available

I want to connect a PC to a time capsule via Ethernet to use the LAN Connection. The PC does not have Airport Utility installed (corporate restrictions) and does not recognise the connection when I plug in the network cable. How can I fix this problem? Would putting a switch inbetween work?

Did you replace the ethernet patch cord? Try a tested and known working good one.
Put a switch in between the TC and the faulty computer.. or occasionally faulty computer.
I am struggling to help because you feed bits of info in each post..
Please give me the entire picture all in one go.. start from scratch.
1. TC.. model from rubber foot. How old? Vista computer.. make, model how old?
2. How is TC connected into your network?
3. Do the connectivity lights come on when you plug in the vista computer?
4. If you swap win7 computer what speed does it link at.. 10, 100 or 1000mbps?
5. If you set the vista computer to 10mbps does it link?
6. If the vista computer works in a different LAN what speed does it link at?
7. What happens if you remove the TC from the network, do a factory reset and then plug in the vista computer.. fully isolated from the existing network. Use a different patch cable.. known and tested to be good. just a short one is fine.
8. Run the vista computer on linux boot disk so you can test the hardware.

Similar Messages

  • XBOX ONE. I have the xbox one and the airport time capsule and cant connect to most xbox live games and zero parties. I have 0 experience in all this but somehow was able to change NAT to open but still wont connect. HELLLPPPP

    Okay folks, I need your help out there.
    So the nerdy side of me went and picked up the XBOX ONE on release day. Its awesome by the way, BUT..... I cant seem to connect to most xbox live games and absolutely ZERO parties. At first I just thought it was something to do with the xbox itself and would eventually fix itself, but i was wrong. After looking into it on microsoft, i found out that it had to do with my NAT settings on the airport itself. I guess apple and xbox are not compatiable for xbox live and it makes it difficult to have an open NAT setting and is a huge PAIN.
    I was able to pinpoint one that the airport time capsule was blocking the IPV6 something or another. Anyways, I unblocked that, and reset the modem and time capsule and jumped on the xbox and now have open NAT settings but still cant connect to multi-player.
    Upon further searching, i was told to uncheck the UPNP on my time capsule as well, but have no idea how to find that.
    I know it seems confusing, but thats the best i can describe it.
    tthanks all

    Be a long long time before I see an Xbox One.. but whoever told you to uncheck the upnp in the TC.. tell them their dreamin' .. upnp is not support by Apple in any computer or router, never has been.. Apple deliberately wrote their own version called NAT-PMP to do the same thing.. dynamically open ports at the request of an application or client computer.
    So there is nothing like that to uncheck.. and as a matter of interest.. there no box to check or uncheck for NAT-PMP either.. since apple do not believe in end user adjustment of settings.. they simply do not exist.
    You will have to manually forward all ports required by the Xbox via the TC. For multi-player games you probably need to open more ports than the standard to allow just xbox live. You will need to check the ports required and open them.
    OR
    Buy a standard vista UPNP compatible router.. and use that.. and simply put the TC in bridge in the network.
    I have not seen posts yet about xbox one.. but there are plenty about xbox and ps3 and the fact that Apple really doesn't give a hoot about games consoles.
    This is a good basic post for older xbox.
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5385065?tstart=0

  • Time Capsule and Ethernet Connection

    Switch Time Capsule To Wired Connection
    I have a Time Capsule (sometime in 2010) that I use to have wirelessly connected to my iMac (May 11). Recently I connected the iMac via its ethernet port to one of the ethernet ports on the TC. The TC is my LAN wired and wireless router and works great for the Internet. Yes,  DHCP is enabled. I have turned on my wifi for the iMAC since I want it only via ethernet.
    However, now I do not see the Time Capsule on my desktop anymore.
    SInce I previously have configured the Time Capsule to "join a wireless network", do I have to reset everything to get TM to work with TC via wired? Is there a way to do it without resetting TC?
    Any help would be great,
    Thanks
    Brian

    If you use wireless to get in, then simply turn off the join a wireless network and go back to the original setup.. but resetting to factory is no big deal .. it will not do anything to your backups.. you will just need to redirect the imac where the backup drive is.

  • Downloaded iOS 7 on my iPhone 4S and cant connect to airport utility.  speakers still work wirelessly from computer so i know it isnt the wiifii connection.  shows everything is connected but when i play a song on itunes the icon doesnt show up for airpor

    I downloaded ios 7 on my iphone 4s and cant play itunes from my iphone to my speakers through airport utility.  it shows im connected thro wifii.  i can play the speakers wirelessly from itunes on my computer so i know its my phone since ios 7 downloaded.  even the icons on the song that turn on the speakers are missing.  what do i have to do to get it back?  Ive deleted airport utility and reinstalled it.  i shutdown my phone and the airport base and wifii and restarted everything.  nothing seems to b helping.

    I just encountered this problem for the first time and stumbled upon this forum to find a solution.  I played around with it a bit and it seems that if you slide your finger from the bottom up, you will come upon that new screen that will allow you to do various functions with your phone (put it in airport mode, lock, etc.), you can select your Airport from this screen and play your music wirelessly from your phone; at least this was my experience. Hope this helps!

  • Time Capsule cannot be Discovered by AirPort Utility

    Hello Everyone, Plugged in my just purchased Time Capsule (powered up). Next, installed the Time Capsule software on my iMac. And last, double-clicked on the installed AirPort Utility program. It responds "discovering Apple wireless devices" and result is a message "AirPort Utility was unable to find any Apple wireless devices..." Time Capsule is in the meantime blinking orange. If anyone has an idea of what I'm doing wrong, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

    You might want to try first unplugging the power cord from the dsl/cable modem. Then unplug the power cord from the TC. Wait a minute. Then first plug in the modem's power cord then second the TC's cord. See if that works.
    Next you could try resetting the TC. Unplug the power cord. Use a paper clip to push on the reset button on the TC and at the same time connecting the TC power cord. When you see the TC's light blinking orange for a few seconds you can stop pressing the reset button with the clip.
    lenn

  • Issues with Time Capsule (4th gen).. or Airport Utility?

    I have som abstract issues with my Time Capsule. After some recent downtime with my ISP I thought I'd start digging around in the Time Capsules settings using the Airport Utility. Thing is though, when/if the TC shows up in the utility and I click it, it spins around at reading my settings for awhile, then I lose the connection to it entirely, it disappears from Airport Utility and I lose WiFi AND ethernet connection for a good five-or-so minutes. The unit still shows a green light.
    I have a tiny bit more luck if I use Airport Utility in Windows 8.1 running through Bootcamp. I can click the Time Capsule without it "shutting down" on me and I can restart the unit through the software, but as soon as I try to change any settings or even enter my password to do so, the same thing happens.
    This has happened to me in the past around 2012/2013. My first Time Capsule broke down and I had it replaced, the replacement unit did this to me as well, with the addition of WiFi not working at all so I had that replaced for a unit with the same issue... I kept this cycle replacing up and after about four or five Time Capsules I got the one I have right now which I ONCE managed to install and set up properly, but only through Windows and not OSX.
    I just don't know what to do. I can't update the firmware because the airport utility can't read the settings properly as mentioned above, so I don't know if this issue is fixed through an update. Is this a common issue with the 4th gen Time Capsule? As I had it (or something like it) happen to four of the four or five units I've had I could guess it is..?
    Any tips or hints, some obvious setting in OS X I could have accidentally

    That is quite a story.
    The Gen4 up to recently I would say was clearly the best TC they made.. finally got out most of the bugs and it ran cool enough to survive at least the 3years they should. (You cannot hope for too much more in domestic grade routers now).
    But there has now come up a heap of strange issues. Mostly the units just die.. but the use of Mavericks is also causing some problems.
    It is possible to do this manually even in Mavericks and even using v6 utility.. although IMHO the v5 utility is a lot better.
    I hope you have already got a replacement for your TC in terms of network. Anything you do here might remove the settings that work and you will be unable to put them back.. so don't start until you can know that a bypass is possible.
    Also I would like you to do this a special way. And we have a problem immediately..
    MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
    You must have ethernet. Do you have another computer with ethernet.. ?? Or can you get a friend to help with a laptop, PC or Mac that still has ethernet. Otherwise you need to buy a Thunderbolt to ethernet adapter which are not too expensive. And well worth having.
    You need to factory reset the TC and do this in full network isolation.
    So one ethernet LAN port of the TC to the computer. Computer has no internet connection and no wireless on.
    1. Do the factory reset.
    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.
    2. Manually setup the TC by ethernet.
    I have done this setup with screenshots in this thread. If you would please follow that.. anything you don't follow just ask.
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5800974?tstart=0

  • Time capsule remote access message from airport utility "An error occurred while reading the configuration"

    WHEN I TRY TO ACCESS Time capsule remotely, I receive a  message from airport utility "An error occurred while reading the configuration." It worked before on the same computer with the same setting. I am in a different country now (Afghanistan). Not sure if that can be an issue.

    If the TC is at home and in router mode as the main router of the network, get someone at home to give you the current public IP which will be on the summary page of the airport utility.
    With the public IP try and access it by typing the IP directly into finder.. go.. connect to server.
    AFP://publicip.
    If you have setup WAN access it will. Otherwise no.
    For BTMM and iCloud access and its various issues.. this thread may give you some ideas.
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3699096?start=0&tstart=0
    If the icloud method proves unreliable and you are dependent on access to the TC.. I strongly recommend better and more reliable access methods.. in particular buy a VPN modem or router.. whichever suits your internet type and put the TC in bridge behind it. Direct connect to the TC via the vpn.
    You will need either a static public IP which you purchase as an extra from your ISP .. maybe via a business account or setup a dyndns account which are readily available.

  • Any way to set up Time Capsule as wireless router WITHOUT Airport Utility?

    I'm Macless at the moment and I just had to reset my Time Capsule... now it's showing up as Apple Network blahblah and it's completely visible and unprotected.
    Tried the usual 192.168.0.1, .0.2, .1.0, .1.1, .1.2 without any luck. Any way to do this? Do I need to be plugged in via ethernet?
    Thanks.

    AirPort Utility is the only way to configure the Time Capsule.

  • Time Machine - using multiple drives when the first is not available

    Hello I have been succussfully using Time Machine with my USB external drive. I have been connecting it to my MacBook Air from time to time. Manual backups as well as the hourly backups when the drive has been connected worked without any problem.
    Recently, I connected Synology DiskStation (NAS) to my network and I have added it to the list of drives in my Time Machine setup. When my original external drive (first in the list) is not connected to my MacBook  the hourly backup is not initiated by the Time Machine at all. Manually started backup is runnign fine without any problem.
    The external drive is annotated with exclamation mark in Time Machines list with "not available" error - and it seems that this is causing the interruption of automatic hourly backup to any drive.
    Is there any way how to debug Time Machine? Or to get some logs of Time Machine?
    Any similar experience with multiple drive backup when the first of them is disconnected most of the time...?
    Thanks a lot for any help
    Petr

    Perhaps you should address this to Synology's tech support. Apple doesn't provide any support for third-party NAS, so your best bet is with Synology.

  • Time Machine and Drive connected to Airport Extreme?

    Hi All,
    Any one knows if there i a way to have a drive connected to the USB port of an Airport Extreme mount on its own once I'm logged in ? a script of something to that effect.
    TIA
    Oscar A.

    Thanks for the reply... but I don't think that is happening with mine... but I'll be keeping an eye on it. .. it sounds like we have the same set up... USB drive connected to the Airport Extreme.. If that's the case. .. that'll be cool.... but one question.. do you have to be logged in. or does it do it even if not logged in?
    Thanks again...
    Oscar A.
    Message was edited by: OzZkar65

  • How can i clear a full time capsule and start again

    how can i clear a full time capsule and start again

    Open the airport utility .. Click on the TC.. click on edit and go to the Disks tab.
    Click Erase Disk.
    Choose quick erase.. it takes 2min to reformat the drive.

  • BT HomeHub, Time Capsule and Airport Express

    I've just got the BT Broadband.
    I have 3 Macs - 2 with 802.11n and 1 with 802.11g (which I'm getting rid of). I have a 500gb Time Capsule and a 802.11g Airport Express (which I really only use for AirTunes so can be off most of the time).
    I've set up the BT HomeHub (which is 802.11g by the way). I can see the Time Capsule as a separate network but when I use AirPort Utility to try to join the HomeHub network the Time Capsule reboots and then can't be seen at all and I have to reset it.
    Can anyone give me any pointers on how to extend the BT network using the Time Capsule?
    The AirPort Express can't be seen at all either - I think this is a separate issue and I'm going to try resetting it.
    It seems a shame to have invested in all this kit, only to be limited by the HomeHub. Is it possible to use the Time Capsule instead of the HomeHub or does the HomeHub have some kind of built in modem?
    Is there a better broadband supplier than BT for Mac users?
    Any help appreciated, thanks.

    Like the other users, I don't know if this is of any help to you but.....
    I also have a BT Homehub (with Hub Phone) which is banging away as a WLAN to which the Hub Phone connects. I've also just bought a Time Capsule to use mainly as a Network back-up device.
    However I'm trying out the WLAN from the TC to see if it's any improvement over the BT Homehub. I'm therefore effectively running two WLAN's which you could use to extend coverage. For example set your Wireless devices to be able to connect to both WLANs and place the BT Homehub and the TC in different locations to give the broader coverage.
    I've connected my TC by ethernet (WAN port) to the BT Homehub and currently have my iMac connected to the TC via Ethernet also (to help speed up the initial back-up as they're both Gigabit devices). I'll change this eventually, connecting the iMac via a switched ethernet (100MBs or 100BaseT) connection.
    My Macbook is backing up to TC via WLAN and is connecting to the internet by WLAN to the TC and in-turn to the BT Homehub via the ethernet connection (between TC and BT Homehub). Sounds confusing, but everything seems to be working OK.
    I'm keen to know if any other BT Homehub users have had any success with Back To My Mac - as I've not yet been able to get it to work (but my BT Homehub is one of the earliest types).
    I don't think the Broadband supplier has any bearing on the devices used - with the exception of the router supplied or used to connect to the web.
    Any use to anyone?
    I am interested however in how you're using BT Broadband and a BT Homehub if you're based in the USA!?

  • Apple time capsule and BT Hub 3

    I have just swapped over to BT and have recieved the Hub 3. 
    My original setup was using an apple time capsule providing my WIFI network, and then using the previous ISP router just acting as a modem. I would like to do the same with the BT home hub 3 as I have a reasonable complicated WIFI network for which the time capsule is already set up and working fine and I do not want to change this.
    All I am wanting to do is plug the time capsule into the HUB 3 using an ethernet cable, but I cannot seem to get it to work. The previous router had a WAN port, but the HUB 3 does not seem to have one. Any ideas?

    Hey Tommy,
    I anticipate being in a similar situation to Roger, in that I’ve three WiFi computers [1] that I need to migrate...
    • from – Virgin Media FTTP modem » ethernet cable » Apple Time Capsule
    • to – BT Infinity FTTC Openreach modem » ethernet cable » Apple Time Capsule
    ...during or after the BT engineer’s BT Infinity installation visit next Thursday.
    Thanks for your tips on integrating an existing Apple Time Capsule into a BT Infinity set-up. As I understand you, you’re suggesting swapping from the regular BT Infinity set-up...
    The regular BT Infinity set-up (source image page)
    ...for an Apple Time Capsule based BT Infinity set-up, like this:
    An Apple Time Capsule based BT Infinity set-up (source – tommybobbins suggestion in the post above this one)
    But AFAIK, it’s the BT Home Hub 3 that provides support for the mutual aid BT FON network; am I correct in thinking this Apple Time Capsule based BT Infinity set-up would deprive other BT customers of a BT FON WiFi hotspot?
    AN ALTERNATIVE SET-UP SUGGESTION
    I notice that the Openreach modem actually has what looks like two identical LAN ethernet ports side by side:
    BT Openreach modem, illustrating dual ethernet LAN ports (source image)
    So is it feasible to set up both the BT Home Hub 3 AND an Apple Time Capsule with just the addition of a second ethernet cable?
    For instance:
    A dual Apple Tim Capsule + BT Home Hub 3 Infinity set-up
    Would this set-up work?
    If so, would it provide a seamless migration for my three WiFi computers (once the Time Capsule’s been reconfigured with Airport Utility to use PPPoE, as per your instructions), AND a mutual aid BT FON network WiFi hotspot?
    [1] Three WiFi computers:
    • Apple MacBook Pro 17-inch notebook, running OS X 10.5.8
    » http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/stats/macbook-pro-core-2-duo-2.5-17-early-2008-pen...
    • Notion Ink ADAM 10.1 inch tablet, running Linux (Android 2.2)
    » http://www.notionink.com/techspecs.php
    • Nokia N900 3.5 inch tablet, running Linux (Maemo 5 v21.2)
    » http://www.developer.nokia.com/Devices/Device_specifications/N900/

  • I accidentally set my airport express to base station when it should be my time capsule and can't set it back

    I'm an idiot!
    I have my Time Capsule as my base station. I have two Aiport Exrpres' that connect to them.
    One of the AE's was not working right, so I went it, did a soft reset, and using the Airport Utility, I accidentally identified the AE as the base station.
    I've now gotten the Time Capsule set as the base station, and of of the AE's working off of it...however, when I plug the other AE in, it trumps the Time Capsule and shows it as the base station, and then the TC doesn't work.
    I've tried doing a soft reset, and then hitting forget, but I can't figure out how to how it show as the child to the parent (the TC), as the other AE does.
    Help!!
    Thank you,
    Dennis

    Thank you, that seems to have done the trick...I knew Apple would be much easier than Windows!
    I appreciate your help!
    Dennis

  • How do I connect to Time Capsule from a Windows 8.1 machine which is on a Windows domain. I have been able to connect from a Windows 7 machine on a Windows domain to a Time Capsule. Airport utility is not displaying the Time Capsule Win8.1 machine

    How do I connect to Time Capsule from a Windows 8.1 machine which is on a Windows domain. I have been able to connect from a Windows 7 machine on a Windows domain to a Time Capsule. Airport utility is not displaying the Time Capsule Win8.1 machine.
    I have checked that the firmware has been updated to 7.6.4 . Similalrly the Win8.1 machine has been loaded with the update specified in another discussion.

    Firstly how are you connecting to the TC.. wireless or ethernet?
    Please open a command window and ping it.. ping by name and by IP address.
    If ping succeeds at least by IP it should work.
    In windows explorer type
    \\10.0.1.1 (or whatever the TC ip is.. that is the default).
    Having the airport utility for windows loaded can help the process. As it loads bonjour for windows.
    7.6.4 firmware on the TC is useless. It works better on 7.6.1
    If the ping does not succeed by either name or IP address yet you have internet through the TC, then your network is setup wrongly. You are have firewalls blocking local IP. Take down all the firewalls.

Maybe you are looking for