Time Capsule very hot!!!

Hello,
I have buyed a Time Capsule 2T... I've connected it and after a configuration, before starting the back up, Time Capsule is very hot...It's normal?
Thanks.

Hello Sir!
I have a little question to you. I use this type of way to comunicate, because I don't have your e-mail.
After installing the Mountain Lion I have had some problems with imessage, Face Time, Skype, and Quick Time.
They crashed full in start phase.
So I decided to do a clear instalation on the HD.
What do you say to the restore process from the Time Capsule?
Better to do a file transfer, or a normal Time Machine restore.
Thank you for cooperation, greetings,
Incacom

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I just replaced my old TC with the new one. It took all night to transfer 149gb from my Imac to the new drive by wireless N. I took the old one to work and hooked it up in my office for a back up of a Mac Mini. At home we had 3 Mac's attached to the TC and it was always hot.I even found some sockets from an old socket set to raise it up so air could get under it to help cool it down a little. The new one is just warm with the same computers hooked up. The old one at work is also only warm to the touch with the one Mac hooked to it. I'm very happy with the new one and love the dual band.

Time Capsule Runs HOT (temperature)

Our Time Capsule is very warm to the touch. Is this normal? Thanks

Yes, that's the general concensus. Not only is there a hard disk within the Time Capsule, but the power converter is also housed within the unit. It should run warm to the touch, but not so hot that it hurts to rest your hand on it for an extended amount of time. It will run hotter when the hard disk is being accessed (for backup or otherwise). Some people have noticed that raising the TC from the surface of the desk will help with air circulation under the TC and help to reduce the temperature. I have mine rested on four stacks of five pennies each. You might want to try this if you feel it's running too hot.

Macbook pro and time capsule run hot

How hot should the laptop be getting? It only does this intermittently and more so up by the speakers, and the speakers are not always running. The Time capsule is on all the time and is hot all the time. Not so hot as to melt the plastic etc but I was interested in the amount of heat these should be releasing. Any information would help to ease my mind. I am new to Apple products and clearly heat is not unusual for the PC world. Thank you Douglas

If you simply want a cooler Mac, download smcFanControl - this program lets you set a minimum speed for the fans. I set it to 2400 - 2000 is the standard minimum temp that the MacBook Pro sets, and IMO it's just not enough.
I live in a pretty hot country so the MacBook Pro would get too hot to touch frequently. smcFanControl allows you to set a few different profiles, so when you think your computer is too hot, you can just switch to another profile and set min fan speed to, say 3000 or 4000 RPM. It only really starts to make noise at 4000.
Apple obviously had to strike a balance between noise and heat, and IMO they allow the MBP to run too hot. It will eventually damage components. I lost a hard drive and I am pretty sure it was due to heat because I had left the MBP unattended and charging, and it just felt extremely hot to the touch. The next day, the hard disk was dead...

Time Capsule VERY slow ethernet back-up on my iMac

Hi anyone who can help....I'm getting really frustrated with Time machine
It seems quite afew people are experiencing problems with TC....
BUT they all seem to have different issues. Mine is simple.
As a wireless network it works just fine, last weekend i had some friends over and we had 4 laptops going at once - speed was fine
Backing up - My G4 powerbook works FLAWLESSLY, backing up wirelessly.
BUT...My G4 iMac (connected directly via ethernet cable) hasn't been able to do a back-up since got it. It gets stuck on preparing or takes day's (Yep DAY's) to do a few 100 MB.....
Obvoiusly the TC is working, but not the wired connection. I can't try my iMac wirelessly, as it doesn't have an airport card
ANY suggestions? Oh and I don't have any virus software installed

Andrew,
*_Slow Time Capsule Transfer Via Ethernet_*
*Disable Anti-Virus Software*
“Using virus scanning software can make Time Machine backups very slow. If you use Norton Antivirus 10 AutoProtect or a similar product, try turning it off during backups.” [http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/15140.html]
*Create An “Ethernet Only” Location*
While you are physically connected to the Time Capsule via ethernet you may still be experiencing slow data transfer speeds because your Airport network is still active and taking priority.
Connect one end of a Cat-5 Ethernet cable into one of the LAN ports of the TC (<•••>) NOT to the WAN port (wheel icon). Connect the other end to your Macs ethernet port.
Next, go to System Prefs --> Network.
At the top of the window note what “Location” you are currently using, as you will need to return to this setting later.
Now, change “Location” to “Edit Locations”.
Click the “+” button and create a new location named “Ethernet Only”.
Click “Done”.
In the Services Pane on the left, eliminate all other services using the “-” button leaving “Ethernet” only. If you choose to leave other services listed then al the very least move Ethernet to the top of the list using the Action Menu (gear button) at the bottom and "Set Service Order".
Verify that “Configure” says “Using DHCP”.
Click "Apply" in the lower right.
You should be seeing an assigned IP Address and the Status should say “Connected”. The dot beside “Ethernet” should be green.
Now begin your backup or transfer of files.
You should still have internet access during this period.
Once the backup/transfer is complete, remember to change the Network Prefs “Location” back to “Automatic”, or whatever setting it had originally been, to restore Airport connectivity.
*Adjust Ethernet Speed*
Open Network Preferences.
With Built-in Ethernet selected on the left, click "Advanced" in the lower right.
Click "Ethernet" tab on the far right.
What is selected beside "Speed"?
Try changing this setting and see if it makes a difference.
Next launch Airport Utility.
Select the Time Capsule on the left.
Click “Manual Setup”.
Select “Internet” from the toolbar.
Click “Internet Connection” tab.
Near the bottom verify that “Ethernet WAN Port” is not set to a slower speed. Either choose “Automatic” or the fasted speed available.
If you have made any changes, click “Update”. 
*Slow Full Backup After Restore*
Try either deleting the “old” backup disk image or copying it to another disk. Then start the “new” full backup again. Some users have experienced improved speed when the “old” disk image was removed from the backup disk.
Let us know if this was helpful.
Cheers!

IMac Time Capsule OK, Macbook Air Time Capsule Very Slow, both 10.9.5

I am struggling for more than a week trying to find an answer, but failed, hope someone can help me out
It seems after I upgraded to 10.9.5, a message on my Macbook appeared that I believe advised me to do a new full back-up on my Time Capsule. I did, it was slow, few MB after 1 hour or so, so I cancelled it. Whatever I tried, it remains a problem, I am now backing up 180GB to a 2TB Time Capsule, and it is at 53GB after 10 hours, now running at about 1GB/3 hours. My iMac, also on 10.9.5, connected to the very same Time Capsule on the same network runs smoothly, backing up 850GB in 8 hours or so.
What I have done so far, that did not help:
- Reformatted my Time Capsule completely,
- Run Disk Utility on Macbook, Repair Disk permission, Repair Disk.
- After Repair Disk Permissions it completes OK, but when I immediately run it again if finds the same problems, which it says have been corrected, see screenshot
- Disconnected my iMac from the network, sticked the very same network cable in my MacBook, ran Time Machine again, no difference
My set up:
1x Macbook Air, mid 2002, 250GB of which 70GB free space, 10.9.5, no anti-virus, clean-up apps etc
1x iMac, beginning 2009, 1TB of which 150GB free space, 10.9.5, no anti-virus, clean-up apps etc
1x Time Capsule 2TB, running latest firmware 7.6.4
All networked to the same network, no wireless connections
Prior to 10.9.5 I did not have this problem. I am pretty much lost. Anybody?

USB to ethernet has never been great.. although why it is worse with 10.9.5 is typical quality of apple upgrades these days.
7GB/hr sure aint fast.. it will go fairly slowly over the small files but should speed up on the larger ones.
I would take another step.. since you have come this far..
Check your wireless link speed. Depending on the age of the TC (yours in gen4) and the air.. you link speed should show 450mbps in the wifi on the mac.
Check it now..
Transmit rate should show 450.. you might need to setup close to the TC to get it.
But I achieve that by setting different names for the two bands.. TC24ghz and TC5ghz.
By default my mac will choose 2.4ghz .. because it is based on the best signal not the best speed. On 2.4ghz it can achieve 217Mbps max. Usually it will drop to 130. So by using a different name I can force the connection to the highest speed.
As you can probably tell.. IMHO using auto for everything is a great way to get things to work.. but how well they work is optimised by a committee.
Setting all the factors myself I set what I want and produce a racehorse instead of a camel.
(It is a typical joke.. camel is a horse designed by a committee!!).

Backup to time capsule very long

I had a backup issue and had to delete the computer sparsebubdle image and backup again.
Time Capsule is 2T, available 1.60T. I need to backup 950G and it is VERY slow. Is has backed up only 75G in 2 days and it estimates to need 20 more days Is it a normal spped? If not what should I do?
thanks, Cris

Do you mean the TC (Time Capsule) and not TM (Time Machine)?
When you say the iMac is directly connected to the TC (your TM) do you mean it is phyiscally connected to the iMac by USB or Firewire cable? Or that the iMac is Wired to your internet Router and or Time Capsule by Ethernet cable. Because one it totally different then the other.
At most I get around 85 to 100+ MBs (that is Mega Bytes a Second) going over my Gigabit Ethernet LAN from one computer to another both with FAST drivers in them. When going from one of my computers to another that is older and has slower drivers sometimes I only get 35-50 MBs transfers.
If you take both of those numbers and divide them into your total 950GBs of data the time to transfer all of it would be DAYS if not weeks.
You are backing up 950GBs. That is Nine Hundred Fifty "Billion" Bytes (Nine Hundred Fifty "Thousand" "Million" Bytes) (950000, Million) of data. At any of the normal current transfer rates available to the Home and Small Business market, at a reasonal price, that transfer is goiing to take what you are seeing.
Even if you had a 2 or 3 Terabyte (That is Trillion or 1 thousand Billion) external connected directly to your Mac, even at USB 3 speeds or Thunderbolt speeds, the transfer would take almost as long. If you only had USB 2 speeds it would take longer. So no don't disconnect it just let it run.
But I suggest you go through all the files you have and find some you don't need or that you can off load to an external drives that do not need to be on your internal Mac hard drive. 950GBs of Data is a whole lot of Data.
I've been usiing computers for over 20 years and have most every file I have ever created, and do a lot of photography, along with tons of Work files and don't have near that much data on any of my computers.

Printing to HP Laserjet 2100 via Time Capsule very very slow

If I connect the above printer directly to my Macbook (OS 10.5.2) it prints fine, at reasonable speed and quality.
Connected via the Time Capsule a half-page text document takes about 4-5 minutes to print.
I have updated the printer driver from this link http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MacOSX/hpijs - the driver name is HP Laserjet Foomatic/hpijs
Using the standard 2100 Kaserjet driver offered by the operating system didn't work at all.
The printer is connect via USB using a USB to Parallel converter cable which again works fine when connected to my Mac directly (and to my PC).
I have restarted the Time Capsule.
What else can I try?
Richard

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Time Capsule - very slow

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Time Capsule - Very slow and eventually unresponsive over wi-fi.

Hi,
I've been using my TC for some time now, but it was the first time I had to recover a file. I know it's slow as **** to backup over wi-fi and that it takes aaages to "prepare" the backup. Also I did the initial backup using a cable and not wi-fi.
My question is: Why is it SO slow to browse and restore small files from a not-so-far-away backup, like, from yesterday? First, when I tried to browse the previous versions of the file it took aaaages to show the contents of the folder and eventually crashed while I stared incredulous the screen...
Then when I tried again it took it a very long time to browse the folder (I went for a coffee...) and then another 5 minutes to restore a very small file.
I know it's not supposed to be blinking fast, but it's borderline unusable. Isn't it supposed to be at least "not annoying"?

Experiencing the same problem. Drag/Dropping a 30Mb file from my HD to TC takes about a minute. Tried about all suggestions and didn't see an improvement. TC is in 5GHZ n mode with only my iMac as a client. Speeds should be around 9 Mb/s instead of the 0.5 Mb/s I'm observing. I've switched off Spotlight indexing for TC, de-activated the Airport status indicator, did several hard resets of TC and put ACK at zero instead of the default value of 3. No major impact; my 30Mb file continues to be transferred in around 60 seconds from iMac to TC. I read one comment that TC might be sensitive to heat, so my next trial-and-error initiative will be to put TC in a cooler spot to see if this has an effect. I'm very eager to learn how to get TC up to 9 Mb/s and hope Apple will pick up on this discussion. I assume they're very aware of the issue as there's quite some discussion going on on this topic. One thing I also tried was downgrading TC firmware to a more stable version, where Airport Extreme v5.5 was advised. I didn't succeed, assuming this old version is not compatible with my Intel Mac. I would like to know if there's a stable robust throughput firmware version available for TC I could downgrade to...??

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Thanks!
Message was edited by: Mr. Macintosh693

Hi,
I have something like that working at the moment. My setup is based on a Mac Mini Core Duo [ OS 10.5.6 ] connected to a Time Capsule. I have configured iTunes to store all archived music on the Time Capsule. I use the Apple Lossless format for my CDs and approx 420 titles have taken approx 130Gb from my 1Tb Capsule. In general this setup works well [ especially the optical out of the Mac ] but be aware of the following potential pitfalls:-
1. The Time Capsule is a little on the noisy side and depending on the quality of your playback equipment, your choice of music, ambient noise and your values of "satisfactory" you may want to put your Capsule or HDD in another room. This seems OK for generic playback, but in my experience wireless is not a good way to go for streaming content.
2. iTunes v8.0.2 has a preferences capability to allow you to redirect it's archive to the Time Capsule. However, even if you leave the Capsule switched on it goes into a "sleep" mode. Rip a new CD and iTunes won't tell you this; instead it will silently reconfigure itself to store on your local hard drive and then you're left with the challenge of moving your collection piecemeal if you want it in one location, followed by manually updating iTunes to "point" it to the new location of the music.
One nice thing about the Capsule is that it does allow other connection types. I have mine networked to a PC running Ubuntu Linux and a music player called Amarok and I am able to stream the Mac-Ripped lossless files and play them over Linux perfectly... Works very well. Apparently you can do this with a Windows client and iTunes for Windows, but I don't run Windows as a matter of principle and can't validate that.
My 1Tb Time Capsule runs hot, too. Not dangerously so, but hot to the touch. There are no cooling fans, but you might want to think about placement; it needs plenty of fresh air circulating around it.
For what it's worth [ and I appreciate this is going beyond your question ] I also wanted my setup to be able to store and retrieve recorded TV. I have Elgato EyeTV and a USB Freeview decoder. I quickly learned that despite claims to the contrary the performance of the wireless connection just isn't up to streaming video content. So I went out and purchased a pair of Ethernet-over-mains adapters from Zyxel that are absolutely perfect for the job.
Yes, the Capsule is a little pricey for what is little more than a Hard Drive in a box, but it does work very well.
Beware the timeout disconnections and the silently re-configuring iTunes thought...

Hot Time Capsule

I have just installed a Time Capsule. It is working fine but am surprised by the heat it generates, is this safe. I noticed the machine in the Apple Store was also very hot. Why have Apple used such poor insulators in the construction of this device ie rubber base and plastic case?
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I've searched through a few discussions on this issue but most of them seem over a year old and are talking about steps which may or may not be possible.
The issue I have is that my Time Capsule doesn't spin down anymore. Occasionally it does, but then starts up again a couple of minutes later. This has the effect of making the device itself very hot and being so noisy that I can't work.
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Not sure how much we can help on this, but as a test, if you turn off the wireless on your MacBook and connect it to the router using an Ethernet cable, you should be able to log onto the Internet.
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