Time Capsule running slow

Trying to restore file from time capsule but moving betwwen days of folder is taking more time. suspect last fimeware 7.1.6 may be the problem.
any comments.

Connect directly to your ISP modem and test the speed.. it is difficult to believe the TC will slow down at a particular time.. there are no such controls in the device..
But if several people are using it then you would expect it to slow down.. backups use a lot of bandwidth and if you do not control them, I would expect severe loss of internet speed.
Use ethernet to test.

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Time capsule running slow and backing up whole disc each time

I am on a Powerbook running Mac 0SX 10.6.8.
My time capsule back ups now take hours and appear to be backing up hundreds of files and many GBts each time, even if I run it straight after a previous back up with no file changes made.
Does anyone have any suggestions of anything I can try?
Thanks
Tom

Load the widget to get actual log info from the TM.
A1 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Also do a verify disk.. both the computer hard disk.. and the TC sparsebundle.. See A4.

1st generation time capsule painfully slow

I've been dealing with this issue for some time now. I've searched all over the internet for a solution, and I've yet to find anything that works. I'm hoping a Time Capsule expert may be able to help me sort this problem out.
I have a 1st generation, 1tb Time Capsule. I've had one since they first were released. Use already had one fail from the dreaded dead power supply issue that was affecting many 1st gens after reaching 18 months old. This one is less than a year old.
I have Verizon Fios with a blazingly fast Internet connection. When I plug directly in to my ISP's router via Ethernet, my connection is amazing. I realize that wifi connections are much slower than Ethernet, but what I've been dealing with lately is ridiculous.
I believe the problem lies with the Time Capsule. It's set to 801.11n, 5ghz only, maximum throughput (24mbps), WPA2 personal security, latest firmware. Wifi connections via the TC are great at first, but they seem to degrade as time goes by until I finally have to reboot the TC, then the speeds are back up to normal again for a while.
The problems also seem to arise whenever a computer is backing up to the TC. I understand that speeds might slow down while a backup is occurring, but I would expect that they would return to normal when the backup is complete. Unfortunately, the speeds often slow down so much that the backup never actually finishes, and often it comes up with an error saying that the disk is no longer available.
Trying to share a file between my macs is often impossible. Even a small file, say 5mb, can take minutes to transfer between to wifi-connected devices. Sometimes a TC reboot with fix this, other times it won't.
My setup is like this - Verizon router with wifi disabled, serving as the DHCP router for my entire internal network, connected via Ethernet to my Time Capsule and an Airport Express. The Time Capsule is set up in bridge mode and serves as the 802.11n wifi source for my newer wifi devices. The Airport Express is also set up in bridge mode and serves as the 802.11b/g wifi source for my older wifi devices.
Due to the nature of the Fios service, I can't have the Time Capsule set up as the DHCP distributer for the network. However, even when I didn't have Fios and the Time Capsule was set up as the dhcp distributor, I suffered from these slow connection issues.
Are the 1st generation TCs plagues with issues? Is it just time for me to get a new one?
Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

Unfortunately, you are experiencing one of the downsides to 5 GHz. That's because the higher frequency 5 GHz signals are much weaker than 2.4 GHz signals.
After all, you always have to give up something to gain something else. In the case of 5 GHz, you gain potential speed but in return, you must give up penetration power and distance capability.
In order to work well, 5 GHz signals need to almost have a line-of-sight relationship between devices. Unless you can achieve this, you will do much better to leave the Time Capsule running at the 802.11n (b/g compatible) 2.4 GHz Radio Mode and allow the Express devices to "extend" that network.
As for the location of the AirPort Express devices in an exended network, that is critical for best performance. That's because the Express can only "extend" the quality and bandwidth of the signal that it receives. Post back if you need a few more tips on how to find the best location for the AirPort Express devices.
Would the new airport extreme fix the problem?
Unfortunately, no.

How do I set up OpenDNS to work with my Time Capsule running 7.7.3 in Bridge Mode?

How do I set up OpenDNS to work with my Time Capsule running 7.7.3 in Bridge Mode?

Set up your "main" router to use the OpenDNS servers, and the Time Capsule will automatically pick up those settings. No configuration is needed on the Time Capsule.

Time capsule painfully slow wifi

New time capsule , painfully slow wifi , cisco works lightning fast so the issue is with the TC. Looked at forums and I see it's a common isssue. Any ideas that actually work?

Download the free iStumbler app to examine the strength of your connection.
If it's not good, look for interference with another wireless device, cordless phone, microwave oven, etc. Turn them off temporarily; if you find an offender, move it farther away. See AirPort and Bluetooth: Potential sources of wireless interference for more.
Try different WIFI channels.

Can I use the new time capsule running 10.68 on my Imac?

Can I use the new time capsule running 10.68 on my Imac? I thinking of buying my first Time Capsule and wanted to get the new one. Is it reqiured for me to upgrade my OS first?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
You can use the Time Capsule with your iMac. The problem is that you need AirPort Utility 6.3 to set up the Time Capsule, and it needs OS X 10.7 or later.
If you have an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, you can connect the Time Capsule to the power adapter, open Settings > Wi-Fi, and set up the Time Capsule through it. Then, you will be able to connect to the Time Capsule.
If you haven't got any other device, upgrade OS X. Open the Mac App Store and purchase OS X Mountain Lion. While it's being downloaded, make a backup of your files with Time Machine and check that your apps are compatible > http://www.roaringapps.com
When the download finishes, the Mountain Lion installer will appear, so follow its steps. After upgrading, open  > Software Update, install AirPort Utility 6.3, open it in /Applications/Utilities and follow the steps to set up the Time Capsule

Can a Time capsule run a VPN service??

Can a Time capsule run a VPN service??

There is no inbuilt vpn in the TC, but it should support vpn passthrough from a router or client computer running vpn software. It is important that the TC should have the public IP address on its wan or be used in bridge to another router, otherwise you will find with double NAT it almost impossible to get vpn working.

4Th Generation Time Capsule Running Backup very Slow

I am having a problem with my 4th generation time capsule as it is running very slow , it shows that i need to backup 151 Gb data and for the last 2 days the device backup only 150 mb, pls advise what is the problem? setup of the wireless network seems fine to me without any problem
please help

When you use ethernet, make sure your wireless is turned off in the computer.
It can be worthwhile isolating the TC to the Computer so there is nothing else happening.
Also for Mavericks ensure you have ipv6 set correctly to link-local.
A 100GB backup certainly should not take 20hours..
Although the 2008 (gen1 TC is much slower than later versions).
A first backup of the computer must deal with loads and loads of little files, as a warning can go slow.
A different backup software will be just the same.. it is the speed over network and handling small files that is the issue. Once that first backup is done the later incrementals should not be a problem though.

The reason why time capsule running so slow

Temperature is the killer of Time Capsule!
I am live in Hong Kong, a very hot city, and using 500GB TC for a few weeks and experiencing all the problem other user mentioned already in this Forum. Base on my experience, if I turn on Time Capsule and running in Room temperature, it only running slowly and slowly and slowly! But after i turn on my room air-conditioner, TC working fine without any problem~~~
The reason why TC can't work in room temperature (I guess) is TC using Server HardDisk which designed for high performance server and running in GOOOOOOOOD temperature controller environment~~
If you don't have or don't want to turn on air-con. for TC, turn to put a big FAN near your TC and I hope it help.

Read the specs of TC - it clearly states that max operating temperature shouldn't exceed 35 degrees Celsius. Place a thermometer next to TC and monitor the temperature - you'll see that area around TC is always few to several degrees higher than your room temperature in any other place. So, if you are not using AC then your room temperature easy gets now to well above 30 C when outside is exactly 30 C. All your computer stuff and your body are generating heat and adding to the temperature. Thus you are for sure exceed max allowed operating temperature of 35 C around TC.
Also TC needs humidity below 80% (non condensing) to operate - at this moment there is 91% humidity in HK and if you are not running AC and keep windows open then you are again trying to operate TC in humidity well above max allowed.
TC's Environmental requirements:
Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C)
Relative humidity (operational): 20% to 80% (non-condensing)
Keep AC on at all time in HK my friend, except in the winter when humidity goes down. And keep good device monitoring temperature and humidity next to TC as well.

Time Machine/Capsule running slow.

My backups are fine, it's when i go to use Time Machine that it's horribly, horribly slow. I fixed this once, a year or so ago, but don't remember how to do it now. It had something to do with sparse/bundle or vacuuming the index or something. Can anyone tell me the process?

hkhamilton wrote:
Did you remember what you did to coorect the slow performing Time Machine?
I completely reset the Time Capsule, unfortunately. Sometimes repairing the disk can help, though.

Time capsule running very slow under OS X 10.8.5 (12F45)

Having great difficulty completing a back up. So far taken 3 hrs to back up 5gb out of 100gbs

You are not trying to use wireless for backup, are you?
A wired Ethernet connection should take between 3-4 hours for backup. Wireless will be anywhere from 5-10 times or more slower, depending on your particular connection and the capabilities of the wireless devices.

Time capsule disk slow

Hi all. First post and relatively new Apple user. I have a question.
I bought a time capsule and found it incredibly slow at disk writes. Setup is as follows.
Lyksys router with time capsule connected via ethernet. Time capsule has created new wireless network and has one wireless client, my macbook pro. I also have a mac mini plugged in the back of the time capsule with it´s wireless turned off. The mac mini has a usb disk attached.
I´ll spare the details but planned to use time capsule as a central location for movies, iTunes and photos (I planned to rsync this data to a usb disk attached to the time capsule from time to time). I am not using time machine.
After much upgrading, downgrading and mucking about, the time capsule got to useable speeds. However, my test is "time cp rugby.avi /Volumes/Data" where rugby.avi is 700MB in size run from my macbook pro.
Best speed I have achieved is 1m 40s. This morning I ran the test before going to work and got 1m 50s. Came home, did nothing except run the test and get 2m 45s. Run it again 3m 25s. Run the test to the mac mini and get 1m 22s. Then to the usb dsk attached to the mac mini 1m 40s. Then du time capsule again and get 3m 50s.
To copy the data to the macmini, the data must go through the time capsule wirelessly so we can rule that out as a source of the peculiar speed difference.
My real point is that time capsule seems to have a problem actually writing to the disk. I have no idea what this is and so have decided to return it.
However, if I buy an airport extreme and plug a usb disk in it, does anybody think I might get speeds close to what I get transferring now to the mac mini or should I just get myself another mac mini, after all, it seems a lot faster than using time capsule.
Hope you can help.
Regards

Thanks for the reply. I´m not too concerned with real numbers as such though they are obviously interesting. All I know is that copying that fine in under 2 minutes is good enough for my purposes. Copying remotely to the mac mini internal disk and also remotely to a usb disk attached to the mac mini gives me a speed I am happy with. Time Capsule can also occasionally compete too but mostly gets nowhere near it.
I´ll check out your links but I guess would like to hear if anybody has been complaining about the airport extreme with attached usb disk being slower than they expect.
Thanks again for taking the time to reply though.

Apple TV3 and Time Capsule are SLOW

Ive had an Apple TV for about 1.5 years. I have been using an Airport Extreme as my home router with Comcast High Speed interet, and they have worked great together.. The speed was flawless.. and neve had to wait more than 10 seconds to start playing a movie.
I just replaced my AE with a 2GB Time Capsule because my back up drive had broken. Ever since my internet speed on Apple TV has gone to crap. I use Itunes Radio alot, and now I can't get it to continuously stream. I also use iTunes Match, and it constantly stops and starts while playing music. As for movies, forget it... It takes forever to get it started, and when it does, it buffers every 3-5 minutes during the movie...
At first I thought it was because I was backing up all the time, so I turned off Auto-backup on my MacBook Pro. No change..
Is the Time Capsule not as fast as an Airport Extreme? I haven't changed anything on my ATV3... or my modem. I leterally switched out the AE for the TC.. got my HD backed up.. and that's it..
Regular interent seems fine (on my computer and ipad).. but Apple TV gets stuck all the time..

You do need to spend a bit of time checking the speeds of everything involved.
Exactly what model was the Extreme you were using??
If you still have it available you can rearrange the network and run both the AE and TC.
Certainly the AC model Extreme and TC are identical design and firmware, so there should be no real difference between them. The older models did have differences.. they used fairly different boards and different chassis.. I find placed side by side the Gen4 TC was slightly better wireless signal wise than Gen5 AE. (The TC is one Gen behind.. so they are the equivalent).
To start to figure out your problem you need to do some work to figure out where the problem is.
The WAN connection of the new TC has been reported as slow. The issue may not be the wireless, or lan side at all but the WAN connection to the modem. What model is the modem??
Please do some testing to check if you are getting full WAN speed. Test by using a computer with ethernet only connection.. wireless off.. to an internet test site. If this shows full speed, then next test:
Try by wireless with ethernet disconnected.
Test the laptop in the same location as the ATV. What link speed do you get?
Is the speed poor in this location?
Give some feedback and we can think up some more ways to test the problem.
There is one simple solution though.. plug the extreme back into network and run the TC in bridge behind it.

Time Capsule 500G Slow Page Loads On iMac OS 10.4.11?

Recently set up a 500g Dual Band Time Capsule and everything works fine my Macbooks works fine other Macbooks work fine.
But a white iMac on 10.4.11 seems to be having problems
It has 4 bars in the wireless signal, all the green lights on the network diagnosis.
Yet pages seem to load very slow if not at all, more times than not. Sometimes will be fine.
Anything i can do with the Airport Extreme, have them as a guess or direct connect or something? To help it along?
Not sure of all the options the time capsule might have to help me thats all...
Any recommendations?
Oh and any apps that record the connection, so i can see when it drops and doesn't and see if there is a pattern istumbler do that?

There's no need for concern about the repair permissions ACL message; it doesn't affect you.
What does affect you is the fact that one of your systems is running 10.4.4 and it needs to be updated to 10.4.11. As it stands now, it's both a security risk and way out of date. You need to update it today.
If you want to run any system utilities, the only one you really need is Applejack. Since you have nothing that's super-secret, there's no point in worrying about securely erasing anything. Even if somebody wanted to do that, they'd first have to break into your Mac and have a good idea of what they're looking for, or steal it altogether to have enough time to recover the data on it and then wade through all the useless junk before they might find anything interesting. Unless you're the CIA and have something worth hiding on your Mac, that's overkill.
Mulder

Time Capsule (A1409): slow file access problem and how do we create a back up of the files on timecapsule?

Time Capsule: We have a model no A1049 our network (installed by someone no longer working with us, so I don't know how it was set up or how to access any settings other than via Airport Utility)
We use it for our central file storage, and as a disk for timemachine backups from the several macs we use here.
The time capsule is running but we have slow access to files, it takes ages to bring up the list of files available, can I fix this?
I have just updated the firmware.
I would also like to know how I can back up these files to another disk.
I have searched the manuals and also the support community but I can't find the answers or any instructions other than the manuals and would appreciate help.
Thank you

The Time Capsule was designed to handle Time Machine backups from one or more Mac computers, and it will work reasonably well for that purpose.
But.....and this is a big BUT......it will not work very well at all if you try to make it act as a file server, since the disk spin up time is quite slow among other things like slow read times from the disk.
Suggest that you get with an IT specialist who can recommend the right file server solution for your network based on your needs.
As far as backing up the data on the Time Capsule, the simplest way to do this is connect a USB drive to the USB port on the Time Capsule and use the built in Archive function in AirPort Utility to make a complete copy of all of the data on the Time Capsule.
Unfortunately, the simplest way is also the slowest and the Time Capsule will not be available for Time Machine backups or file serving during the Archive procedure, which will likely take 4-6 hours or so depending on how much data might be on the Time Capsule. A good time to do this might be late at night, so the Archive copying will run overnight.
Another better option would be to use a commercially available application, like Carbon Copy Cloner to automatically back up the Time Capsule disk each day at a time that you choose. The advantage to doing it this way is that CCC will only back up the changes that have occurred since the last back up, so once the first "master" backup is done, the subsequent "incremental" backups will only take a few minutes each day.
Your IT specialist / consultant will likely have other suggestions for you as well. The advice that we have offered here is meant to be general in nature and not specific to your particular needs.

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