Time Capsule conflict with college's ethernet settings

I work/live at a large college campus. I have a registered ethernet jack in my apartment that is registered to my Macbook's ethernet address. I bought the time capsule in hopes I could go wireless in my apartment but was told I'd need to clone my MAC address and that time capsule can't do that. Do I have other options? I'd like to send out a wireless signal so that guests can have internet here and so I can wirelessly connect my Wii and iPod Touch. Thank you for any advice.

Keith132, Welcome to the discussion area!
You would need to register the Ethernet MAC address of the WAN port of the Time Capsule with the school.

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Will Time Capsule conflict with Airport Extreme?

I just purchased a Time Capsule but after reading the discussion board it looks like it might conflict or override my Airport Extreme? Also, if I do connect it, will it ever erase any information on its own without me manually deleting? I think I'm experiencing buyers remorse. My main purpose is to free up space on my iMac. I could have just purchased a simple external hard drive but this seemed like a better choice at the time. Help!

My main purpose is to free up space on my iMac. I could have just purchased a simple external hard drive but this seemed like a better choice at the time. Help!
Depending on the age of the Mac a USB, Firewire or Thunderbolt drive would be a much better choice.. as an addition to the TC.. TC is still needed if you have no backup. If you store your files on the external drive think about where you want them to be backed up to.
it looks like it might conflict or override my Airport Extreme? Also, if I do connect it, will it ever erase any information on its own without me manually deleting?
No the TC and airport can live happily together.. just decide which is router and which is bridge.. as far as possible connect together with ethernet.. but you can wirelessly connect as well.
A TC is a backup device not really a NAS.. it has no means to back itself up.. but it will not erase anything without you deliberately erasing it..
Perhaps you mean the way Time Machine works.. if you erase something on the disk.. TM will eventually erase it from the backups.. this is very true.. but that is specific to TM and backups.. not to stuff you store on the TC. That is not erased unless you do it deliberately.
I think you should read over Pondini's FAQ to understand a bit more about TM and TC.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
I learned a heap from them.. the home pages as well.
http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
Although TM is loaded on every Mac since Leopard.. and very convenient to use.. it isn't the only show in town.. and other utilities can do disk images and incremental backups.. without half the issues that TM does. Although more limited in restore potential as well.

Time Capsule conflict with iMac!!??

Hi guys, I got a really weird situation, hope somebody can help me out.
Here's the problem. I bought a new iMac and a new Time capsule just 3 days ago. I set up a wireless connection using the time capsule. Every computer in my apt can use it, including my macbook. Works totally fine. But only my new iMac has problems. The airport icon looks fine, but sometimes iMac cannot get an IP address from TC, but TC use DHCP! How come iMac can't get an IP, sometimes it gets an 169.254.x.x IP or even nothing. However, even if iMac get the correct IP, like 10.0.1.x, I can only surf the internet about 2 minutes, and then die again, maybe 15 minutes after, it will works for 1 minutes and the die, keeps looping the same situation. Did anybody have the similar experience? I try to rest TC twice, or set up a different SSID for wireless connection, and I also try to reinstall the OS of iMac, still useless, internet only works for 10 minutes after I reinstall the OS. Gosh...I'm going crazy now, cuz I try to debug the whole thing for 2 days!

Aloha,
Then it's likely some setting on the iMac and NOT the Time Capsule. Check these settings out on your iMac:
*Preferred Networks & Airport Services*
You may be experiencing interference from other networks in your neighborhood. When you click the Airport menu are there other networks listed other than your own?
If so, is your network at the top of the list? It should be.
Go to System Preferences --> Network --> Select Airport on the left.
Click "Advanced". In the “Airport” tab note the various local wireless networks that Airport detects. Is the network you prefer to connect to at the top of the list? If not drag it to the top. Are there other networks you never intend to connect to (an old work network, or a neighbors network)? Then highlight them and click the "-" button.
Make sure “Remember any network this computer has joined” is checked.
Click "OK".
For "Network Name" be sure your network is selected and then click "Apply".
Is Airport (wireless) your primary means of connecting to your network? If so, is Airport at the top of the list of services on the left? It should be.
Click the small “Gear” button at the bottom of the window and select “Set Service Order”.
Now drag Airport to the top of the list.
Click “OK”. Click “Apply”.
Now see if network connectivity has improved.
Let us know if this helped.
Cheers!

Weird: why would a network drive named "time-capsule-de" with an icon of an old-fashioned PC monitor appear on my home network?

Weird: why would a network drive with the name "time-capsule-de" and an icon of an old-fashioned PC monitor suddenly appear on my home network?
It happened shortly after I'd set up a new Time Capsule with our iMac and had transferred the configuration for it over from my old Time Capsule.
I'd just taken the old Time Capsule into another room and powered it up with my MacBook to confirm that Airport Utility's wiping of its settings hadn't affected the old Time Machine backups still stored in it.
I was in the process of tinkering to see how I could use the old Time Capsule, when Airport Utility offered to "extend" my home network, so I tried that setting, and then got a warning that the old Time Capsule and its wifi networks were not yet secure or private. While I was working to fix that, I noticed that in the Finder sidebar and in my Network settings, this mysterious "time-capsule-de" (with an odd old-fashioned PC monitor for an icon) had appeared. I tried to click on it, but could not access it. I also could not eject it. I shut down my old Time Capsule and my MacBook. When I turned the laptop back on, "time-capsule-de" was gone.
What do you all make of that? Should I worry about the security of my home network? I live in an apartment development, so there are more than a dozen stray wifi signals pouring in from other units.
I'd welcome any thoughts or suggestions. Thanks!

What is the name of your old Time Capsule? Did you change the name to the new one?
It appears in Finder .. that is to be expected.. it is after all a network drive.. and it has PC symbol more than likely because you are using Mavericks which defaults to SMB network.. ie the computer thinks it is a windows computer.
There is nothing bad or sinister going on.. but you certainly need to ensure your own wireless network is secure..
That is otherwise all fine.
If the TC shows up again, check that it is also in the airport utility and check its MAC address with the label on the bottom.. It will show in the Utility .. then you can compare and check you are reading the right thing.

Extend Time Capsule network with another Time Capsule

Hi guys.
Like the title says: I want to extend the wireless network of the dual-band Time Capsule (2TB) with a first generation Time Capsule (500GB).
So, I opened AirPort Utility, selected the older model and completed the logical steps (extend another network wirelessly), but it doesn't restart. It hangs there, with the orange light blinking...
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Welcome to the discussions!
Check your settings as follows:
On the 2TB Time Capsule, open AirPort Utility - Click Manual Setup
Click the Wireless tab below the row of icons
Wireless Mode = Create a wireless network
There must be a check mark entered next to Allow this network to be extended
On the 500GB Time Capsule, open AirPort Utility and click Manual Setup
Click the Wireless tab
Wireless Mode = Extend a wireless network
Wireless Network Name = Same name as your 2TB Time Capsule
Enter a check mark next to Allow wireless clients
Wireless Security = Same setting as your 2 TB Time Capsule
Wireless Password = Same password as your 2 TB Time Capsule
Update to save settings

Time Capsule: Conflicting Info

Hi there,
I recently bought a new 4th Gen 3 TB Time Capsule to replace my 1st Gen Time Capsule with a 1.5 TB disk - I upgraded the disk myself a while ago.
Following Pondini's excellent information on Time Capsule, I transferred the sparse bundles over (I have an iMac and MacBook Pro with their own sparse bundles) and made the necessary associations via Terminal.
Everything worked perfectly…except, for some reason the Time Capsule information that appears on my iMac's desktop still shows the old 1.5 TB disk showing 158 GB free...
...while in Time Machine Preferences the recognised disk is the new 3 TB Time Capsule disk with 1.59 TB free. The same info appears on my iMac (using Ethernet) and MacBook Pro (wireless).
Huh?
I've been into my iMac's Library and deleted all the Time Capsule associated .plist files (3 in total): is there something I'm missing?
Sounds a bit fussy I know, but I'd really like to get the right info appearing on my desktop.
Thanks in advance.
Michael

Hi Pondini,
Apologies for the time it's taken to get back…Christmas and a slipped disk have made following this up pretty difficult.
Okay, I followed all the instructions in #A8 and followed all the steps in the yellow box on my iMac. It's when I get to steps 5 and 6 that things get a little difficult.
After mounting the the sparsebundle and clicking the partition tab, I get the following (see screenshot):
As you an see, the handle is already at the maximum 1.5 TBs (the size of my old TC disk) so it can't be dragged any further. So, I typed 3.0 in the Size box and then hit the Apply button.
After a half hour or so, I ended up with the error below; it also crashed Disk Utility and I had to Force Quit:
On my MacBook Pro, when I mounted the sparse bundle and hit the Partition tab, I got the same screenshot.
Annoyingly, the Data folder holding both iMac an MacBook Pro sparsebundles shows the correct disk size as does the TC Preferences.
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TIA
Michael

Time capsule slow with macbook pro

Hello,
I'm using a Time Capsule 2T with a MacBook pro 2.0Ghz Intel Core i7, 8GB ram, OSX 10.9.2.
I have a 10mbps internet plan and it works perfectly with my iphone or ipad mini using the wireless signal.
But with my macbook pro, the speed goes down to 1mbps, at maximum...
I've reseted my modem, the Time Capsule, macbook and nothing changed...
Does anyone know what could be happening?? Tks!!!

Have you tested with ethernet? From the specs of your machine it should still have ethernet port.
That is the first test.. with wireless off.. as it helps to establish if the issue is just wireless or is some network problem. If it is still slow post back without doing anything else.
Next test.. copy a file to the TC.. use a big file, a system update or some such.. copy it from the computer to the TC.. and TC to the computer. What speed do you get??
That establishes if the problem is wireless overall or is it wrongly setup somehow.
Test with wireless should be about 3-5M from the TC.. no need to be right next to it.
Make sure ipv6 is set to link-local in wireless setting on the computer.
Do the wireless diagnostics, which is built into the OS. See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5606
Follow all the wifi best practice.
No luck post back your test results.

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Plug the TC into the new modem with a decent length ethernet cord.. a few meters..
Then simply setup roaming network.. so both the TC and the new modem will reinforce each other.. the setup is easy.. Bob at least says it is.. automagically from the new v6 utility.. but it is not hard to do manually either IMHO.
The basic rule is simple.
TC in bridge.
TC creates a wireless network. Same SSID.. ie wireless name Same security .. ie WPA2 AES = WPA2 Personal.. same password.
Voila there it is. although using different channels can be helpful.. if you run into problem.
Now you don't have to worry about which is stronger.. the MB will connect to whichever is stronger.. without human intervention.
Ask Bob to elaborate..
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5146401?tstart=0
BTW the roaming network document is a help.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4260
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Will the airport devices and time capsule work with telstras mobile hotspot (Sierra Wireless AirCard 753S Mobile Hotspot)??

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I like the idea of auto back-up for my new iMac, Ipad and PC Netbook, particularly if I can access all files and data stored on any device. But I have a Conceptronic router. Will Time Capsule work with this and how?

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2. Can my printer USB be plugged in and then shared between the devices?
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I changed the name of my Time Capsule using airport. However, Time Machine still shows the old Time Capsule name, with the new name underneath. When I try to back up using this disk, it shows the following error message:
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