Airport Time Capsule help

[sarakn]

Hey!
I purchased a Time Capsule to go with my MBP and wanted advice about the setup. The Time Capsule arrived before the MBP and I was able to set it up using my iPad and have connected wirelessly to it.

While considering the purchase, someone said I should call comcast/xfinity to disable the wireless feature on the modem provided by my cable company - it's an Arris Docsis 3 modem.

I did not do this after setting up time capsule and the speed was fine. Do I need to do this? Please let me know the best approach?

Thanks!

 

[rgarjr]

U should be able to disable the router feature on the modem anytime.

 

[sarakn]

U should be able to disable the router feature on the modem anytime.

Not on Comcast modems - this is something that's handled by their support staff. I'm reluctant to calling them because I don't want them to break anything.

Any drawback to leaving it as is?

 

[InfinitiG]

yea leaving it on will hurt wifi performance on your airport

interference buddy

go into the aris router settings and disable wifi

it is a specific IP address you access from your browser if I recall correctly

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try http://192.168.0.1/

or

http://10.0.0.1/

 

[sarakn]

yea leaving it on will hurt wifi performance on your airport

interference buddy

go into the aris router settings and disable wifi

it is a specific IP address you access from your browser if I recall correctly

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try http://192.168.0.1/

or

http://10.0.0.1/

Is disabling wifi the same as bridge mode? That's another term I've heard.

Thanks for your help.

 

[InfinitiG]

no its not

look for wifi settings

 

[sarakn]

no its not

look for wifi settings

So what is bridge mode and why is it necessary to have my model put in bridge mode? Or is it not?

 

[Hitch08]

There should not be an issue with there being more than one wireless network in your house. However, the (potential) issue relates to which router will provide IP addresses to the computers on your network. If you have more than one router trying to provide IP addresses, you will have issues. In other words, if your Comcast is functioning as a router, and your Time Capsule is also functioning as a router, you need to do something.

Read this:

If you have only one router on your network and it is set to bridge mode, your network (wired or wireless, or both) will be active but will not be open to connecting to your internet access. If the single router is not set to bridge mode, your network will be able to be connected to your internet access.

When your network will contain more than one router, select bridge mode for each of the additional routers if they will be connecting to a router or other network device that is already using DHCP and NAT to provide IP addresses to computers on your network.

You can use any one of the routers to be the DHCP/NAT server as long as the others are setup in bridge mode. You will usually want to choose the router with the greatest serving capacity to be your DHCP/NAT server. An AirPort Extreme or Time Capsule's network is limited to serving up to 50 users, while an AirPort Express is limited to serving up to 10.

What bridge mode really does is to allow additional routers to connect to the network without conflicting with the DHCP/NAT server. Additional routers may extend the network's wireless range and/or enable additional wired connections for clients and devices.
http://store.apple.com/us/question/...dge-mode-and-not-bridgemode/Q24KPTTA7PHXAT22P

 

[Domdog31]

relax, I have a fios router and the TC is connected on the 5 GHz channel and the fios router is connected on the 2.4 GHz channel. NO INTERFERENCE