Time Capsule Dual, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 2 Air Extreme, Air Express 5GHz

I didn't realize how much various devices like iPhones, older Wireless enabled PC can drive a Apple network with dual capability to 2.4GHZ. What I'd like to do is create 2 networks with my dual (TC, AEBS ) and AX all using Airport Utility 7.5.2. What I'd like to do is using AU with my TC set at 'create' and 'allow this network to be extended ' to goto WIRELESS/WIRELESS NETWORK OPTIONS/and check 5GHz NETWORK NAME. What I like to know is: Checking AU to 5GHz will this create a new network named 'MyLoop (5GHz)' and leave the other as is MyLoop as is. I'm not quite sure what this change to 5GHz does and Apple doc is ??
Bear in mind i have placed the TC, 2 AEBS, AX in the 'Best' possible locations at home using AirRadar etc.
Any suggestions appreciated I'm newbie to this MAC stuff. IMHO i still thing this is better than the other.

Yes.
If you add the 5 GHz network name, you will have 2 different networks.
Go to Wireless Network Options button and check the box for 5 GHz Network Name.
This will give you 2 separate networks and one will have (5 GHz) behind the name.
MyLoop
MyLoop (5GHz)
Then the other devices can connect to whatever network you choose or what those devices may require.

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It is not possible to divide or "partition" the Time Capsule disk......unless you pull the hard drive from the Time Capsule (which voids the warranty), place it in a separate enclosure or caddy, connect the enclosure directly to your Mac, and use Disk Utility to partition the disk. Then, you must reinstall the disk back in the Time Capsule.
This is a lot of work....best done by an experienced technician. The operation will likely cost more than the cost of the Time Capsule.
Life would be tons easier if you used the Time Capsule with your MacBook and added a separate USB drive to the PC.
If you do not need to divide or partition the Time Capsule storage space, and you are willing to have the Mac and PC share the same space, take a look at an application like Macrium Reflect to backup the PC to the Time Capsule disk.
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Why is time capsule under Mac =SX 10.7.5. so slow?

So slow to do what?
There was a bug in the early release of the update.. just check your version is latest 10.7.5
We seldom see this problem now.
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I listed the commands.. that is how you manually mount the disk.. follow exactly the commands I gave you.
In finder use top menu, go, connect to server.
Type in the following.
AFP://TCname or AFP://TCIpaddress (obviously you replace with the actual name or the actual IP address).
If that fails..
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Here is the screenshot.
tardis4 being the name of my TC.
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Can I shared the files/folder of my time capsule with Mac/PC/iPad outside my LAN?

Mac yes.. use BTMM and iCloud or direct AFP connection to the TC.
There is huge amount of info.. just look up remote access time capsule.
PC no.. there is no AFP protocol application that I know of.
iPad no,.. again it is not an AFP protocol device. The only open access method apple allowed is BTMM which doesn't work for ipad.
If you want access for PC and ipad you need to replace the current modem router combo.. whatever it is with one that includes vpn server endpoints.. these can be fairly cheap.. plenty of products with 3rd party firmware will work. VPN is far superior method.

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Thanks, Léo

1. The MAC address is printed on the label of the rubber mat on the bottom of the TC.. right there on the TC itself.. you might need a magnifying glass to see it if like me you are getting old.
2. Download and use the REAL airport utility.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
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If you get a mini use firewire external drive.. you can get 2 or 3 TB fairly cheaply and plug it in. Then back up to a TC if you really want, but any NAS with Time Machine extensions will do the job. Or a hard drive in another Mac made available to the network.

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Although my Wi-Fi Network is properly functioning, and Time capsule is responsible for that, my iMac is not finding Time capsule when it comes to Time Machine back-ups. I have been backing-up my Mac for about three years and the problem appeared recently. What suggestions you all have? Should I Format my Time capsule and restart it all over again? How do I manage to keep my older back-ups?
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Luiz

Hi
I thank you all for the efforts in trying to help our uneasy days! Let me tell you how I was able to solve the problem I had with Time Capsule.
As I said, my Mac would not find Time Capsule anymore.
Followed this steps:
1. Turned off Wi-Fi.
2. Restarted my Mac with ethernet cable connecting Mac to Time Capsule.
3. Entered Ethernet Network connection configuration and configured IPV6 to Link-local only. Applied changes.
4. Opened Time Machine preferences. There it was my Time Capsule again! Selected it and ordered to back-up!
5. It is backing-up again!
Good luck to all!

Time Capsule Dual: Working with Excel files in Windows Computer

We just purchased the latest-gen Time Capsule to replace another earlier edition TC and we are having a strange problem. We have three iMacs and one PowerBook G4 connected wirelessly to the TC, along with two Windows XP machines which are wired in to the TC. The issue is that the two WinXP machines cannot view Excel files from the TC. When they try to open and work with an Excel file from the TC, they get a message that there is not enough memory to open, work with, or save any Excel files and it won't let them open the Excel file at all. If they copy the file from the TC to the local WinXP computer, they can open it and work on it just fine. At first I thought the issue would be with the new TC, but I plugged back the old TC and it has the exact same problem. The only commonality between the two is that I foolishly updated the firmware on both to 7.4.1. The old TC was working just fine until I installed 7.4.1, and then it started to have the same problem handling the Excel files.
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Same happened to me a while back when i updated the firmware 7.4.1 . the macs were ok but the Windows PC's sharing the Time capsule would not save any excel files as errors like memory too low
etc started to appear. easy way to correct this was to got into airport Utility and downgrade back to 7.3.2 , from the menu , you can select what firmware rev you want to go back to select downgrade to 7.3.2 and everything will work ok after this, remember to deselect auto update and check for firmware in the Airport pref till Apple get this sorted out.
Cheers ian

Time Capsule Dual, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 2 Air Extreme, Air Express 5GHz

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