Time Capsule Setup Help Needed

Hi there
I have a new 27" iMac and I'm trying to connect Time Capsule to it for Time Machine Backups.However when I turn TC on I am bewildered by an array of confusing networking type questions by the TC setup wizzard
All I want to do is back up my iMac wirelessly. I don't want to do anything else with my TC.
I have a wireless Linksys router that I use for the internet and no other users need to share my TC.
I don't want my TC to have anything to do with other users or my internet connection.
How can I do this?
Thanks.

Paul McLaren wrote:
Hi there
I have a new 27" iMac and I'm trying to connect Time Capsule to it for Time Machine Backups.However when I turn TC on I am bewildered by an array of confusing networking type questions by the TC setup wizzard
All I want to do is back up my iMac wirelessly. I don't want to do anything else with my TC.
I have a wireless Linksys router that I use for the internet and no other users need to share my TC.
I don't want my TC to have anything to do with other users or my internet connection.
How can I do this?
click here and follow the instructions to set up the TC.
i would recommend that you connect your Mac and the TC by ethernet cable for the initial setup as well as to perform your initial backup (which can take quite a while). once that is done the ethernet cable can go as the next backups will be incremental.
you may also want to browse through the Time Machine FAQ - just for the heck of it.
post back if you need further information.
good luck !

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Hi,
I'm not especially technically gifted and am new to macs, so please be gentle.
I have an iMac and Macbook - both running the latest versions of Leopard (both up to date with all updated). I also have a wireless 'N' network via a Netgear Router/modem which is working fine.
After a bit of a data scare I have just bought a Time Capsule, but am having a heck of a time setting it up. The problem is I don't want it in the same room as my router and I don't want to replace my router (I live in an old house where the router has to be by the main phoneline in the kitchen).
I want the Time Capsule to sit in my home office next to my iMac and back that up with Time Machine (probably by ethernet cable to save my wireless bandwidth). I also want my macbook to back up wirelessly from wherever it is being used.
I have performed initial backups of both devices by ethernet, but now can't get the Time Capsule properly configured to join my existing wireless network. I don't want it to do anything fancy, just tag on to my existing network and be discoverable by the Macbook.
Is this possible? If so, how?
Message was edited by: maxf77

Yes, this seems to be true if you go to the "manual" set-up method. It failed for me too, several times, because of this. Finally, I even tried to set the TC to Create a network of the same specs of the network I wanted it to join. That failed, as expected, because it caused interference with the existing network on my old AirPort Extreme Base Station. My next try was to connect AirPort Utility to the TC (wirelessly from my MacBook) and retry using the easy set-up method. Lo and behold, it worked, and "Join Existing Network" now appears on its Manual Setup panel in AirPort Utility.
Looks like a little bug in AirPort Utility, having that pop-up menu sometimes missing that item.
So, long story short, my TC had this problem, and now it works.
I'd go through the setup from factory reset again to document it exactly, but the family is using it now, so the best I can do is describe it from memory. If the easy setup to Join Existing Network doesn't work for you, then re-do the setup to Create Network with the same specs as the one you want to join. Then when it comes up arguing with the other Base Station ("I am the master of this network." +"No, I am the master of this network!"+), go back to AirPort Utility and connect to the TC, going through the easy setup again, choosing Join instead. Then it might work.

Time Capsule Connection Help Needed (Flashing Amber)

Guys,
I've been trying to troubleshoot my Time Capsule connection for a week now and I have had zero luck.
I have a Imac with OSX 10.6.8 that uses AirPort v 5.6.1. I have a Cat-5 (ethernet cable) plugged from my Time Capsule port (looks like this <-->) into an available port in my cable mode/router. My Imac is also plugged into this router. The two cat-5 (ethernet) cables are side by side.
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Every time I plug in the Time Capsule I get the following prompt via AirPort.
AirPort Utility found a Time Capsule 802.11n (4th Generation) that is
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          Versino: 7.6.1
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If this is not the AirPort wireless devise you want to setup you can select another from the list on the left. If you don't see it make sure.... Blah blah blah....
To make a long story tollerable I do see my Time Capsule on the left at the top. Its the only one and its selected by default. So I do the next logical thing right? I click "Continue" and AirPort reads the Time Capsule's configuration.... and then...... I get the error
An error occurred while reading the configuration.
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Ethernet and try again. (-6753)
Can anyone help me understand why I can grab the Time Capsule's IP Address but AirPort can not read the hardware's (Time Capsule) config?
I'm at a loss.
Could my ethernet cable be the issue?

Hackintosh,
Thanks man... Yes, I plugged it into the circle symbol with no joy. I also went to Wal Mart and baught a new seven foot cat-5 for $10. Again I still have the flashing amber light.
After plugging in the ethernet cable into the circle icon port AirPort returns the following prompt.
I reset the TC (ball point pen to the reset hole untill fast blinking amber light occurs) and entered the needed params and it returns this error.
An error occured close the configuation window and try again.
It must be a config parameter that I'm setting incorrectly. There's a bunch so who knows what I'm doing wrong.
I just need the to talk to my Imac so i can get a backup executed. A wireless connection will take too long.
FYI: The cat-5 is brand new and is 100% functional (green light on the TC and router.)

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Hi folks, I'm hoping some of you more experience Mac techies can help me out. I just bought a (refurbished previous generation) Time Capsule, and I'm trying to set it up for the first time. I don't really have a complicated network configuration-- I'm just going to plug my cable modem into the Time Capsule and use it as the wireless router. The problem is, my Mac's Airport Utility isn't recognizing the Time Capsule after I plug the cable modem into it. The Airport Utility on my MacBook Pro is the latest version (5.5.2) or at least recent enough that it should be compatible with the Time Capsule. Since I can't get the Airport Utility to discover the Time Capsule, I don't know if it's the laptop or the Time Capsule.
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Bryan

Welcome to the discussions, Bryan!
I suggest that you "hard reset" the Time Capsule (TC) by holding in the reset button on the TC until until you see the amber light begin to flash more quickly and keep holding another 4-5 seconds when this occurs before you release the reset button.
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If you have a spare ethernet cable handy, temporarily connect it from your Mac to one of the LAN <-> ports on the TC and open AirPort Utility. Once you have the TC configured, you can disconnect the temporary ethernet cable.
See if one of the methods above will get you going. Post back if you need more assistance.

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I keep on getting this error when i try to copy files to my 2T Time Capsule, Please help im running out of space on my MacBook Pro....
The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -50)

I would get an external drive today and copy all your stuff off the TC.. forget trying to load more onto it. There is a good chance after 3years (A 2TB should be only about 2years tops), the disk or the TC itself is on the way out. Do it immediately. If TM is also failing to backup you need to recognise symtoms of impending doom.
Unfortunately the error messages are archane and it is hard to discover their meaning.
You also cannot verify a network drive.. you can verify the TM sparsebundle though so do that.
A5. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Reboot the whole network from off.. certainly if you run later OS it can simply lose the drive..
If you still fail to be able to copy to the TC.. then get that external and copy off it. Tell us if you can do that.

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Finding files depends on how and where you saved them.. generally you cannot find a single photo in iphoto for example.. it is a single database.. and can only be found by restoring the whole database.. so don't abuse yourself.. it can be difficult if you don't remember a raw file name to find it.
the best resource in all the world is Pondini's great KB of all TM information.
Look at Q14-17 which covers restore.. in its myrid forms.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
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What have you tried?
You are going to get nowhere quick with the 6.1 utility in Mountain Lion if this is the only OS you have available.
Look up how to install 5.6 utility under ML. At least then you can see printers. That is assuming you are trying to use USB.
Has this worked ever on Mountain Lion? Did you download the drivers for that printer for ML?
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But if I buy the Imac I wrote about in my previous question (2 TB HDD + 256 GB SSD), would I then need to buy two, 2TB Time capsuls,
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If I buy 1 TB HDD + 256 GB SSD, then 2 TB Time Capsule will be enough, right?
Correct.

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Since you have the new Time Capsule, then you will need a new AirPort Extreme to match the performance capabilities of the Time Capsule.
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A wireless connection will result in a significant drop in performance, but it might be OK for your uses, if you want to try it that way first to see if the performance is acceptable.
It is really important that the AirPort Extreme be located where it can receive a strong wireless signal from the Time Capsule.
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Take it straight back to the store for replacement. It is faulty.. there is no fix you can do from outside. Even if there was, I would still say it is Apple's problem.. and a disk should never go bad in that length of time..
You would think after the debacle with Seagate drives in the imacs they would never touch them again.

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You can, but it is not possible to continue backups "seamlessly" from one Time Capsule to the other.
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Does the airport time capsule eliminate the need for my cisco linksys wireless router?

does the airport time capsule eliminate the need for my cisco linksys wireless router?

I understand that your network now looks like this:
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I want to install a new 2TB Airport Time Capsule to replace my older Time Capsule. I would like to continue to use my original Airport Extreme for my network and have the new Airport Time Capsule serve as an extension of that network. I have referred to the following article http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5096 but then started having issues of understanding what needs to be done.
While there is obviously wireless capabilities for the new Time Capsule, I was thinking that to initially copy the old Time Machine to the new that I would use an ethernet cable. (The old Time Machine is USB to an external drive). Once the copy is made I'd like to remove the ethernet and position the new time machine for wireless connectivity. I'm not sure how to connect everything together. My modem is connected to my iMac 27 by ethernet (that's faster, right?) and so I don't have any ethernet ports available on the modem. (one is input, one is output to the airport extreme, and one is output to my computer.)
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Anyway, confused about connectivity. In the end, I'd like to copy the old Time Machine to the new Time Machine and I think the above article will get me there. But I'm troubled about what wires go where. Any suggestions?

Time Machine is the backup software on your computer.. it has no relationship to any particular hardware.
Time Capsule is an apple router with a hard disk inside. It is not related in any way to Time Machine.. !!
BUT it is used mostly as the target for a Time Machine backup.. Apple naming is very messy.
1. It's the small white device that gives me a wireless service in my house. It has no drive just serves to provide wireless.
It could be an extreme or express but you state later on it is extreme.
I was thinking to use the time capsule as my Time Machine drive but use the wireless capability as a network extender of the original AirPort Extreme.
Generally it would be better to use the TC plugged into the main ISP modem / router. And you can then use the Extreme to extend the network.. it does depend on locations.. you want the least number of wireless hops or the best chance of running ethernet to the clients. Either setup will work but think which is fastest. Whenever a backup has to go.. computer--extreme--TC. with both connections by wireless it will go at half the speed of
computer--TC.
And if you can plug the computer--TC by ethernet it will go about 3-6 times the speed of wireless.
2. I was wondering what is the best way to get the old Time Machine data onto the new 2TB Time Capsule to be used as a Time Machine.
I recommend you start over with a fresh clean backup. The issue is the local backup and the network backup are handled differently by Time Machine and it is not easy to do what you want.
See Q18 here if you want to see what is involved.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
Specifically this one. http://pondini.org/TM/18.html#id18
3. Yes.. but think if it isn't better to move the extreme instead.
4) my modem connects via Ethernet to my desktop because I thought wired was faster than wireless. My modem also connects to the AirPort Extreme to broadcast a wireless network for my iPhone and iPad. I could have my desktop connect wirelessly but just thought wired was faster. OK I see what you say about plugging the desktop in to the wireless router instead.
This is wrong.. You should have the computer plugged into the airport router.. and the airport router plugged into the modem.. not both connected to the modem. It will do backups much faster with a direct wired connection to the TC.. but not if it goes via a slow (10/100 port) on the router the ISP supplies.
5. Sparsebundle is how the TM packages the backup on network drives.
Read the info in Pondini to understand.
http://pondini.org/TM/Works.html
In particular the part about network backups.
http://pondini.org/TM/Works3.html
So you're saying that the New Time Capsule is receiving the copied file via network? No cables used in the copying to the new Time Capsule/Time Machine?
Backup runs over either wireless (slow) or ethernet (fast) to network drive.. or you can use a local disk as you have been doing.. and that is the fastest.

Time Capsule setup due to ISP change - help !

Hello all,
Hope someone can help me with this ..
Background:
My ISP was BT Corporate (my company paid for my broadband). I was provided with a ZyXel router some years ago now - which worked fine for what I needed - which was basically to just be able to work from home now and again. So all that was setup was my PC Laptop wired into the router. I then made the switch to Mac and bought an iMac, AppleTV and recently a Time Capsule.
So basically, everything connects to my home network through the Time Capsule network including Nintendo Wii, DSi and iPhone - which in turn, connected to the ZyXel router to the Internet. I have had no problems with this setup - including VPN to my company. Life was good ..
I have had to switch ISP who arrived a couple of days ago to install the setup which is now what appears to just be a cable modem - that has replaced the ZyXel router I had previously.
What I have done, is to plug the ethernet cable coming from the modem into the WAN port of the Time Capsule and expected all the devices I listed to work as normal. Except that they don't !
Every device "sees" the network but nothing will connect to the internet - except for the iMac. I could probably understand this more if nothing worked, but am completely stumped by this.
One thing I did notice was when I looked at my AppleTV trouble-shooting section in the manual was that it said if I had an IP Address that started with 169.x.x.x then something was not configured properly. The Time Capsule also has an address starting 169.x.x.x as does my iPhone.
Some info on the settings etc: I am using DHCP with the auto settings on most of the options (as this is what I had before), I have WPA2 set (I also created my network all over again without security but that made no difference at all). The router address starts 80.4.192.1 according to the TCP/IP settings on the Network preferences.
Any ideas as to what is wrong with the setup ???
Cheers,
DazJ

Hello Tesserax,
No - ISP is using DHCP. I haven't needed to provide any user credentials at all.
I think I have just solved this - although for the life of me, I can't think why the steps I took actually solved anything at all .... hahah
I just did a factory reset of the Time Capsule and set up the whole thing again - including the network .. this brings me to where I was before - which is my iMac is perfectly happy connecting over Airport to the TC which in turn goes out to the Internet via the Ethernet connected cable modem.
I just flicked on the WiFi for the iPhone and connected to the network (which I could also do previously - but not get out to the Internet) and ... hurrah ! I can now connect out. The same for my Nintendo DSi. I will now reboot the AppleTV and Nintendo Wii.
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Regards,DazJM

Time Capsule not working - need help

Hi guys,
I just bought a Time Capsule to replace my Linksys E2000. The E2000 was running fine but I wanted a wireless external HD, which the Time Capsule provided.
So I've set the Time Capsule up with all the same settings for my ISP, which are as follows:
IP address: 121.73.247.68
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I'm kind of annoyed with Apple - this has definitely not 'just worked'.
As soon as I plug back in my E2000, everything works fine. So I'm pretty sure it's not a problem with my ISP or the cable modem.
Anyone have any ideas?

I found another post on this site (can't locate it now though), but someone else had the same problem and I did something similar to him and I finally got my TC and modem to work together. I unplugged the power and cable from the modem for about 20 minutes total. During this time the TC was still powered and plugged in to the modem. Then before I powered the modem, I unplugged the power for the TC for about 5 minutes, plugged power to TC back, then connected cable on modem followed by power to modem. It miracously worked after that, I didn't even have to change any settings through AirPort for the TC.
I have NO clue why this particular sequence of events worked, but I know I did all of those steps (maybe not in that particular order) and had been unsuccessful.
The post I read earlier used the following steps - Keep the TC connected to the modem the entire time, unplug power for the TC for 5 minutes, then plug power to TC back. Unplug power & cable from modem (can't remember if he left it unplugged for a specific time), then connect cable & power for modem.
The only reason I left my modem disconnected for 20 minutes was because I had read it takes varying amounts of time for the modem to reset. I don't have a reset button on my modem so that wasn't an option for me and calling the ISP to reset my modem didn't work either - I did that twice on Saturday with no success, but I don't remember if I had the TC still connected? I tried so many different things over the last 48 hours, but all I know is the steps above worked for me.
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