Time Capsule and time machine with third party router

Hi,
This is the first time I use this site.
I have over three years old Mackbook.
APP has expired.
Now I want to know how to set up time capsule in a new environment.
I moved from Australian and Singapore.
I was using Time Capsule and Airport Extreme in Australia.
I have moved to Singapore.
I am using router provided by Singtell(Singapore Telecommunication). I do not have an Airport Extreme anymore. My housemate and I are using wireless internet-sharing. Needless to say that internet provider is SingTell.
Now I would like to know how to use time capsule and time machine with the network created with a router provided by SingTell.
What I did so far is;
Connected the time capsule to the power point.
Orange lamp lit and flashed for a few second and stop. Orange lamp stayed on.
Apple Utility does not recognise Time Capsule.
I prefer to use it wirelessly.
There are only two USB cable ports installed.
One is used to synchronize iPhone.
Other is used for a printer.
but if it is not possible, wired would be OK.
MacBook 13 inch 2.0 GH Late 2006
I hope that someone able to give me an answer for this.
Cheers,
morepubholidays

In this case the apple support people reveal a truly poor understanding.
You must bridge something.. you either bridge the TC.. which 90% of people do.. or you bridge the dsl router.. which some people do manage to do.. You will have to look that up for your modem and check with verizon if they support pppoe authentication.
IMHO just bridge the TC as you were told not to do.. as they are simply wrong about that.
If you already tried this and it didn't work.. try again.. it is the correct approach.
You have no choice. But this time let me suggest you do it using the 5.6 airport utility.. as the apple toyland v6 airport utility is likely half your trouble.
So here is how to get the utility into your computer.
How to load 5.6 into ML.
1. Download 5.6 for Lion.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Click to open the dmg but do not attempt to install the pkg.. it won't work anyway.
2. Download and install unpkg.
http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/
Run unpkg on the desktop.. it is very simple.. drag the AirPortUtility56.pkg file over to unpkg.. and it will create a new directory of the same name on the desktop.. drill down.. applications utilities .. there lo and behold is Airport utility 5.6 .. drag it to your main utilities directory or just run it from current location.
You cannot uninstall 6.1 so don't try.. and you cannot or should not run them both at the same time.. so just ignore the toyland version.. the plastic hammer.. and start using 5.6.. a real tool.
For screen shots see this post.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4668746?tstart=0
Then open the manual setup on the 5.6 utility.. go to internet tab. Connection sharing.. off bridged mode.
Select this and update..
Then all your IP addresses will be wrong.. I suspect this is where things are going wrong.. and messing you up.
Once the TC is bridged.. turn off everything and restart.. in correct order.. modem.. TC.. client computers etc. 2min gap between each.

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alunthom wrote:
I have installed a 2T Time Capsule and want to set up Time Machine. I am asked to enter the name and password of the server "(name of Time Capsule)" but no combination of names and passwords works. What name does it want?
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Also I want to extend my network using an Airport Express but the Time Capsule and the Express will not come up on Airport Utilities at the same time. Should they work together?
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Hello I hope that someone can help me in this problem that I'm having with the configuration of my Time Capsule.
Topology:
TC --- (WAN) --- Router --- AP --- MBP
|
+--- (DSL) --- INTERNET
where;
TC - Time Capsule
WAN - WAN interface on the Time Capsule
AP - Access Point
MBP - Macbook Pro
The ip addresses are:
TC - 192.168.2.2
Router connected to the TC - 192.168.2.1
Router connected to the AP - 192.168.1.1
MBP - 192.168.1.23
DSL - public ip address
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I configured the Time Capsule to be my backup device through the internet (mobile me) and with my local wireless network.
The problem:
I don't know why I can't get connected to the TC using the Time Machine application, I can reach it through ping or through the configuration assistance of the AirPort Utility...
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* Open AirPort Utility
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Tesserax,
No problem with the questions... I'm more than glad that you help me with this problem...
Regarding what you asked let me answer:
o With the TC connected directly to the Cisco router by Ethernet, do you have the TC reconfigured as a bridge? (ref: AirPort Utility > Select the TC > Manual Setup > Internet > Internet Connection > Connection Sharing = Off (Bridge Mode))
- Yes... It's already configured as Bridge mode in the internet connection...
o Do you have the TC configured with a static Private IP address provided by the Cisco's DHCP Server service? ... and is that static IP address the 192.168.2.2 you mentioned?
- Yes. I already configured the static IP address as 192.168.2.2
If you have more questions please let me know, I want you to have my complete picture of the diagram
Let me share you this next link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5594932/TimeCapsuleProblem.doc
Also let me share you this diagram: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5594932/Diagrama%20LAN%20INTERNET.pdf
Is a dropbox document that I uploaded so you can see the screenshots in the Time Capsule. Hope this can help better!!!
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Though all of these steps may or may not be needed, I'm including them all.
Make a New Location, Using network locations in Mac OS X ...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2712
10.7 & 10.8…
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ebiest wrote:
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The backup could be corrupted .. try using the disk utility to verify and to fix it.
See A5 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
You can also try restoring the whole backup to an external drive.
Pondini has a number of methods listed here.
Q14-17 http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
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When you say noone is providing a solution.. we have no idea who the noone is??
Did you read Tesserax document on remote access??
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3413
Tesserax is definitely someone.. and he has done a very good job of giving you 3 alternatives.. all of which work at least for some people.
If you have read that.. then please tell us what you have tried and what failed??
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ISP deliberately use dynamic IP addresses to prevent you hosting servers.. The TC is a file server in this setup. They are trying to stop you doing this since part of requirements are you don't host servers on non-business accounts.
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Welcome to the discussion area!
Things were fine before two changes occurred on your network. So, it might be logical to try to isolate one thing or the other to arrive at a possible cause for your network slowdown.
You need to completely power cycle the entire network after you make any change on a network, whether that be adding a new device (the iMac) or making another change (the firmware update).
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Any change?
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