Hi all,
Just bought a 2tb time capsule and want to optimize it into an existing network.
I am an expat working in Korea and the Internet/wireless network was arranged by our property agent so I am reluctant to mess with it for fear of losing my connection (even temporarily that would be unpleasant).
I have the following other devices:
1. Imac (2011 version) running ML
2. Macbook Pro (2012, retina display) runnning ML
3. Apple TV 2
4. Ipad with retina display (wi-fi + 3G)
5. Ipad mini (wifi only)
6. Iphones (2)
I am fed up with the duplication of photos and music on a number of the devices and I would like to have a central location for them plus a whole bunch of movies that I have stored on external hard-disk right now.
The idea is to set-up the fastest back-up solution for the two computers, plus have a kind of archive solution for watching movies, looking at photos, and playing music through the apple TV and the flatscreeen TV. Ideally, I would like to be able to use the apple TV to watch my stored movies through and thought I could do this by connecting the external hard-drive to the TC to get it on the network.
I have the TC set-up just now as an additional network device (e.g. I just hooked it up to the existing wireless set-up) but I understand that I may not be taking advantage of a faster network (5Ghz ?) capability of the TC for connecting my two computers to.
Back-up with time machine seems to be very slow (about 12 hours so far to back up 38Gb of a 154Gb back-up). I have the TC connected via ethernet cable to the broadband router and was just using the airport wireless connection for the back-up from the iMac, I don't fancy using this set-up to back-up the Macbook Pro unless it is the fastest I can get.
Can anyone advise on my best course of action ??, I am fairly savvy but I am just a little worried about messing with the existing wireless network.
Thanks
Mike
Just bought a 2tb time capsule and want to optimize it into an existing network.
I am an expat working in Korea and the Internet/wireless network was arranged by our property agent so I am reluctant to mess with it for fear of losing my connection (even temporarily that would be unpleasant).
I have the following other devices:
1. Imac (2011 version) running ML
2. Macbook Pro (2012, retina display) runnning ML
3. Apple TV 2
4. Ipad with retina display (wi-fi + 3G)
5. Ipad mini (wifi only)
6. Iphones (2)
I am fed up with the duplication of photos and music on a number of the devices and I would like to have a central location for them plus a whole bunch of movies that I have stored on external hard-disk right now.
The idea is to set-up the fastest back-up solution for the two computers, plus have a kind of archive solution for watching movies, looking at photos, and playing music through the apple TV and the flatscreeen TV. Ideally, I would like to be able to use the apple TV to watch my stored movies through and thought I could do this by connecting the external hard-drive to the TC to get it on the network.
I have the TC set-up just now as an additional network device (e.g. I just hooked it up to the existing wireless set-up) but I understand that I may not be taking advantage of a faster network (5Ghz ?) capability of the TC for connecting my two computers to.
Back-up with time machine seems to be very slow (about 12 hours so far to back up 38Gb of a 154Gb back-up). I have the TC connected via ethernet cable to the broadband router and was just using the airport wireless connection for the back-up from the iMac, I don't fancy using this set-up to back-up the Macbook Pro unless it is the fastest I can get.
Can anyone advise on my best course of action ??, I am fairly savvy but I am just a little worried about messing with the existing wireless network.
Thanks
Mike
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