Wireless significantly slower with time capsule

I have a 2T apple time capsule running latest firmware 7.6.4. I have Cox cable and a 150 mb plan. When I connect my iMac to the modem, I am consistently getting 175mb connections. When I connect the TC, my speed over wireless drops to a 50mb connection. I have restarted the TC with no effect at all on the speed. I have attempted to restore the TC's settings through airport utility, but I just keep getting the "restore" window with the "spinning circle"--i.e. it ill not restore. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you. Also, I should add that the iMac is upstairs while the TC is downstairs. I get a strong wireless signal. I would assume download speeds will vary, but I wouldd not expect my speed to be 1/3 of what it should be. Thanks again.

I would expect exactly what you are getting.
Wireless is not going to transfer real world speeds higher than about link speed divided by 3, maybe even 4.
Find your link speed. Hold down the option key and click the wireless fan in the top menu area.
Take the transmit rate and divide by 3..
You should realise that wireless is limited by Apple to 130Mbps at 2.4ghz although in newer equipment you can achieve 217Mbps.
For 5ghz the speed will be 450Mbps in the same room but drops off quickly.. the above shot is with the TC in the next room.. max link speed dropped from 450 to 162 as drop off at 5ghz is very rapid.

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A Gen1 TC will be using marvel wireless chip and your 2008 and 2010 Macbook will use atheros and/or broadcom cards.. Just open your system profiler and look for info on the airport. We find the mixture of wireless chipsets especially older draft N and later N products can give very varied results.
The very fact you are linking at 270 and not 300mbps shows some reduction from theoretical max speed.. and really to get over 100mbps with any wireless you need perfect setup.. matched wireless chips etc.
Do a test uploading and downloading a file to the TC to see if the LAN speed is better than internet speed.
In reality I think you are doing especially well.. we see loads of people complaining about slow internet here who are getting less than 10% of the speed they get direct when routed through the TC. And on most occasions the limit in speed is not really going to affect what you do, as the real links to the internet are not that fast.

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I have a 50MB internet connection and a Time Capsule. I use the Time Capsule to wirelessly connect my iMac to the internet. I also have a desktop PC with an ethernet connection to the Time Capsule. Lately the internet speeds have been very slow when I connect via my Time Capsule. I experience slow speeds from the wireless and wired connection. On speedtest.net, I can't even get the test page to load. On my PC, when I unplug my ethernet cable from my Time Capsule, and plug it directly into my modem, I get fast 50MB speeds on speedtest.net. When I plug the cable back into my Time Capsule, the speed is slow again.
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Thanks, Brian

Hi Brian,
Every couple of months I also experience the very slow wi-fi connection through Time Capsule (currently on firmware 7.6.1 but the problem has occurred also with older firmwares).
I have been able to fix the slow connection this way:
Test your laptop's wi-fi speed to verify the problem. For example, I'm getting only 2 MBit/s download speed at speedtest.net when the Time Capsule slows down, although my operator provides super-fast 100 MBit/s connection.
Detach the (Internet) Ethernet cable from the Time Capsule.
Connect the same (Internet) Ethernet cable directly from ADSL or Ethernet wall plug to your MacBook (or any other computer that experiences the slow wi-fi connection).
Run the Speedtest.net test again. Now you should obviously get "full" Internet speed without Time Capsule (for me it means about 75 Mbit/s, never quite the same the operators promise ;).
Detach the Ethernet cable from your laptop and connect it back to the Time Capsule (wait until the green light on Time Capsule). Test again with Speedtest.net. (Now I get around 60 Mbits/s over Wi-Fi, that is OK). Interestingly the problem now disappears and stays fixed for several weeks or even a few months, after which I simply repeat this process when needed.
I am currently running Time Capsule firmware 7.6.1 but the issue has happened on later versions also. Perhaps you will experience it after running 7.5.2 after a few weeks or months?
For background information I am running on the same Time Capsule's Wi-Fi network:
A white MacBook with OSX 10.7.3
Samsung laptop PC with Windows XP
Two iPhones (3 and old 4)
Playstation 3
Apple TV
Hope this helps!

My Network gets slower with time capsule... why?

I Buy a Time Capsule for only for use it as backup HDD in my work but after i install it and configure it the network gets slower but onli with the machines that have the gateway configured, because the machines that dont have internet connection (no gateway and no DHCP only static ip), they are fast as allways
we use Windows Server enterprise 2008 r2 with ADSL connection and terminal server configured and a network domain on it.
and the machines have windows 7 and xp.
I hope someone know why this happened.
thanks.

And if you don't have luck on the SL forum then I'd recommend posting on the Airport forum. You can find that at:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/wireless/airport

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Ever since then, my apple TV is extremely slow when downloading movies. It used to take about 30 seconds to be able to watch the movie and now it's 1-4 hours.
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Hello optize. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
I assume that you are using the new Time Capsule (TC) to stream movies to your Apple TV (ATV) ... correct?
If so, to improve streaming performance, you may need to try some of the following to find what will work best for your network configuration.
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o If you must operate your wireless network in the 2.4 GHz radio band to support non-"n" clients, try a different radio channel.
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o Temporarily disable Time Machine backups from running when streaming movies.
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I have a macbook (2,1) 1,83 Ghz connected to my brand new Time Capsule 1 TB in 802.11b/g/n compatible mode. I have also my iPhone hooked up to my Time Capsule through wireless network.
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66 for the iphone !!
Here is a screenshot: http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/3853/timcacapsulehm6.png
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Greetings. I am a regular Mac user and using Mac for several years now. However, I am a new to network administration. I have a Linksys wireless router that syncs our 5 Macs (one iPad-1 iMac and three MacBook Pros), plus 4 Windows PC's we have in our network. I recently decided to purchase a Time Machine, and further our use of Apple technology in wireless devices. I want to back up all my computer's files to Time Machine and use the Airport Extreme functions of Time Machine while discontinuing the use of my LinkSys router. However, I can't get my Epson WorkForce 600 to wirelessly connect to Time Capsule in order to use the scanner & fax functions. Connecting the printer by USB enables the printer function, but disables all other functions of the printer (fax-scan, etc.).
I tried downloading new Epson drivers and couldn't get some of them to install. This time My iMac wouldn't install the .dmg files. I tried opening the .dmg file and installing. The pop up box requiring my administrator password, kept flashing when I tried to enter my password. Since I couldn't get the .dmg files to install, my plan to update Epson driver's didn't work. Question #1: I am looking for advice how to install these weird disk image files ?
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I would expect exactly what you are getting.
Wireless is not going to transfer real world speeds higher than about link speed divided by 3, maybe even 4.
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Take the transmit rate and divide by 3..
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For 5ghz the speed will be 450Mbps in the same room but drops off quickly.. the above shot is with the TC in the next room.. max link speed dropped from 450 to 162 as drop off at 5ghz is very rapid.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4546
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