What should be 2nd ethernet cable be attached to in Time Capsule?

Hi -- I got a time capsule some time ago, but never set it up. Started to one day but ...
Anyway, now I'd like to try again. I'm reading the directions -- get the part about connecting the DSL modem to the TC via ethernet cable. I understand connecting the USB cable to a hub or printer. Then we come to "connect an ethernet cable from any ethernet device to the Ethernet LAN ports.
This may be idiotic, but what device? the only ethernet device I use is the ethernet broadband router. Should I just plug a second cable from the router to the TC? Should I plug an ethernet cable from my iMac into the TC?
This has stopped me several times from using this thing and I finally decided to ask. Thanks in advance for the help.
I'm currently using a first generation Airport Extreme. Still works great after 6 years. But I'd like the faster speeds. There will be several wireless laptops (including one PC) and the iMac connecting to the TC.

Internet cable goes into the WAN port of the TC. The other 3 LAN ports are available for you to use +as you please+. If you want speed and have a computer close by, you can connect an ethernet cable directly. Otherwise, stick with the wireless option and leave all 3 LAN ports empty.

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can I assume I can simply unplug the Time Capsule from my computer without any glitches and Time Capsule will then run wirelessly. Is this assumption correct?
Yes, if the computer will be able to receive a strong wireless signal from the Time Capsule.
I did not disable wireless. So I assume the backups are occurring both with the ethernet and wirelessly.
It is inot possible to have both an "active" Ethernet and "active" wireless signal simultaneously. If an Ethernet connection is established, your computer will default to the Ethernet connection. If the Ethernet cable is unplugged, the computer will revert to the wireless connection.
I also show 2 wireless networks available through Airport. Shouldn't there only be one now?
You have a simultaneous dual band Time Capsule. That means that it will always be providing both a 2.4 GHz and a 5 GHz network.
I named my new network the same name as the old network. This enabled all of our devices to continue with their connection without entering the new network and/or passwords; however, I am afraid this may pose problems in the future somehow. Any input on this issue as well?
Things should be fine. Devices will connect to the best signal.....either 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz....based on their capabilties and location in relation to the Time Capsule.

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I ran out of space on my time machine because I bought a new I MAC to replace the old one. So I copied the old one on the new one and in addition to that I own a macbook. So what should I do erase the old IMAC on my Time capsule ? Shall I reset it?

Go to the airport utility and erase the TC disk.. a quick erase is fine and takes less than 1min usually.
A one pass erase takes several hours depending on how big the hard disk is.. but is somewhat safer in that it tests the drive condition. I normally don't bother for a TM backup.
When you start over you should be able to fit both backups on the TC.. assuming the disk is 2x larger at least than the space used on both the MB and the iMac.
If not you can also add a USB drive to the TC, and use that for one of the computers.
The slowest one is best.. as USB is slow.. but fast enough for wireless you won't notice much.

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I've been involve with the TC since was released. Recently I noticed that the Time Machine wasn't able to perform the regular back up, but not even that, the memory size of the TC wasn't there. I pushed the button on the back of the TC try to see if there's any different; I open the airport program, try to restore the original setting of the TC but since then, my Macbook haven't perform any backup and I'm really curious what actually happen to the TC.
What can I do to find the remain 500 GB that the TC suppose to have it, in order to continue with the regular back ups for the Time machine? Any suggestion are welcome, prior to bring the TC for technical support.

If you open your hard drive and look for the SHARED heading on the left, does your TC appear there?
If not, click anywhere in an open space on your desktop to display the Finder menus at the top of the screen.
Click Finder and click Preferences. Under the heading of "show these items on the desktop", make sure there is a check mark next to "connected servers".
Next, click the Go menu at the top of the screen and select Connect to Server.
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I had to replace my cable modem and now my Time Capsule only talks to just the one Mac Air. My other wifi devices (another Mac Air, iPad, and iPhone) can't get on the wifi. Any suggestions?

I recently replaced my cable modem and now my Time Capsule only works with the one Mac Air and not my other devices (another Mac Air, iPad, and iPhone). Any suggestions?

It sounds like you have gone from a cable router with the TC bridged to a cable modem with no router.. so the first device to connect pick up the IP address. Did the cable company give you the same model?? Check if it is a pure modem or a modem router.. and what the last one was.
Anyway.. you should redo the setup.. do you have any computer with ethernet?? Did you buy a USB to ethernet adapter for one of your airs.. very hard to do setup without ethernet.
Also download the new utility.. with the old style.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
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Using an external drive with shared files (iPhoto, iTunes), attached to a Time Capsule, can the contents of the external drive be backed-up to the internal Time Capsule drive? Perhaps a RAID1 mirror to a partition?

Using an external drive with shared files (iPhoto, iTunes), attached to a Time Capsule, can the contents of the external drive be backed-up to the internal Time Capsule drive? Perhaps a RAID1 mirror to a partitioned Time Capsule? I understand that the Time Machine (software) cannot backup a networked drive (the external) and that Time Capsule (the router/wireless hard drive) does not have its own backup software... so it won't backup the connected drive. What I would like is an alternate solution for having an automated backup of a networked drive. A 2TB Time Capsule has more than enough space for Time Machine backups of my family of Macbooks, so I had hoped to mirror a 500GB external drive (with shared media files) to a portion of the Time Capsule internal hard drive. I assume this would require a partition of the Time Capsule drive. If not, would the sparse file from the various computers being backed up need to be copied to the external drive as part of the RAID1 setup? This seems like overkill for the Time Machine backup, but it would cover the media files.

The complexity with this idea is the software has to run from a Mac computer on your network.. so you need a Mac turned on, probably most of the day.
It isn't possible to partition the TC although you can create a image area.
The software would have to copy the material, that means all files to be copied, go from USB drive, back to the Mac, then back to the TC, and written to the drive. In other words you have just added Network congestion, although a proper incremental backup type software will not actually use a lot of capacity.
Finally it will be slow.. network drives are slower than internal drives. Well USB connected drive is much slower than the same drive connected directly to the computer.. and if the drive is connected directly to a computer it can be shared with the network.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4577/airport-extreme-5th-gen-and-time-capsule-4th- gen-review-faster-wifi-/4
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My home network is set up with a 1TB Time capsule and several attached USB hard drives. On those drives I've got a bunch of movies, tv shows, home videos, music, pics etc. that I either stream or transfer to my various devices for viewing/listening. My wife and I have recently become the permanent guardians of my 13 year old neice and she'd like to have access to some of the media. In general I have no problem with this, but there are movies and cable tv programs that aren't appropriate for a 13 year old. Is there a way to give her access to some, but not all of the files on the drives attached to the Time Capsule? I'm thinking perhaps creating a "Rated R" folder and password protecting, or somehow having the Time Capsule look at which user is attempting to access certain files and either granting or preventing access. She's using my old G4 tower running 10.6 and will be viewing these videos on either that machine or an iPod Classic, or perhaps a Touch if Santa comes through . . . and her grades are good.
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There are a number of other applications that will back up your Mac to the Time Capsule.....Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper and Chronosync to name just a few. That is why we were asking for more information.
As far as Time Machine and iPhoto are concerned, it is unfortunate that a few years ago, Apple removed the feature which would allow you to "browse" the images in your Time Machine backups in the iPhoto Library. If you want to restore any images from your Time Machine backups, you must restore the entire iPhoto Library then use iPhoto to view the images that you want.
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Click once on the iPhoto Library to highlight it
Click the "gear" icon at the top of the window
Click Get Info
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Navigate to the iPhoto Library in the Pictures folder
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These are the cable modems supported:
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SB6121
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CG3000D
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5352
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Zoom
5341J
ZyXEL
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Evidence:
CNET
Crutchfield (who sells this stuff and would like to make more money)
I could go on. But you have your own belief, not establish but supporting evidence, and spending money for a marginal difference. Do you understand the physics behind the gold plating? Well, I do, and I reject it, based on both the physical chemistry of the metals and, of course, the physics. Again, if you ran gold from one end to the other, then maybe you could convince me of a marginal difference in conductivity of the electrons, but because the gating material will be the copper/aluminum/steel or whatever is used before the gold plated ends, there will be no difference. Morever, the quality of signal is dependent on other factors including length of the cable, which impacts resistance (see metals above). This is basic basic basic Physics 101.
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What should be 2nd ethernet cable be attached to in Time Capsule?

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