Upgraded to TM from old AP Express

Question

We moved into new OLD house that has thick brick walls as well as 2X6 walls with the old plaster and wood lather. The AP Ex would not send the signal far enough. TC came today. It appears to be even slower then AP Ex and my PowerBook is only 5 feet from the TC. Hitting option button & selecting the wireless symbol I get a transmit rate of 54. I tried to run an ethernet from TC to both of my mac's and a PC and they seem to be just as slow. Would this mean that my Cox internet provider is sending a weak signal and or that the various splitters under the house make it slow? The next issue I have is that TM is not backing up to TC. i will check those threads for advice. Is there any way to use my AP Express with TC and if so how? I know my remote speakers don't work

Answer 1

MudShark wrote:
Can I use TM to move stuff, individually, from an old Leopard macbook to a MBP (SL)? apps and data. Will it pull over the stuff in the \library folders?
you can move data individually but the only way to move apps is by using Migration Assistant which works on TM drives too. also MA has an option to migrate user data only (no apps). and in any case, it never overwrites newer apps with older ones so migrating from leopard to snow leopard is not an issue. and snow leopard built in apps like mail are designed to be backwards compatible so they will understand Mail data sitting in your home directory. same for all other apple apps. but if you don't want to migrate all apps with MA then reinstall them from scratch. moving stuff by hand is a nasty proposition and you are likely to miss something. as you say apps that use installers put stuff all over the place and not just in /applications and /library/application support. for apps that install by drag and drop into /Applications you can just transfer the apps themselves.
How screwed up will mail be, being different versions? (BIG concern. also other apple programs that got updated on the L-to-SL)
I don't like the migration assistant since its all apps or nothing.
Are there any third party apps to pick and choose what to xfer?
I'm bracing (and procrastinating) for doing it manually. (might write a little proggy to aide. The *nix stuff of root\library and user\library makes tings a bit sticky/confusing)
(and I wish the developers of apps would put all there stuff i the \library\app-support. 1/2 the time its just stuffed in the \library. <rant over> )