Need help restoring my computer.

[DubLogic19]

Gonna keep this short and to the point.
Recently upgraded to Mavericks ()
bought an airport time capsule 2TB directly from Apple.
I'm using airport utility 6.3.2
Whenever I try to extend my currently existing network and hit NEXT, it just continues as if I'm trying to create a completely new network.
ALL I want to use my Time Capsule for at this current point in time is for a TIME MACHINE backup.
Please help,

 

[Bruno09]

Hi,

is your existing wifi network broadcast by an Apple router ?

If not, you can't extend that network with a Time Capsule wirelessly.
You will need to connect the TC to the (modem)-router via Ethernet.

 

[DubLogic19]

Hi,

is your existing wifi network broadcast by an Apple router ?

If not, you can't extend that network with a Time Capsule wirelessly.
You will need to connect the TC to the (modem)-router via Ethernet.

I want to setup my time capsule to be used ONLY as an external drive, I was just going through the motions on airport utility and wasn't getting anywhere with that.

 

[53kyle]

Just replace your existing network with the time capsule. There is no other way. At least you will have 802.11 AC in any 2013 macs that you have, or 2013 iPads (if you have any of those). Maybe you should have made sure that it could be used as a simple hard drive BEFORE you bought the capsule.

 

[niteflyr]

I want to setup my time capsule to be used ONLY as an external drive, I was just going through the motions on airport utility and wasn't getting anywhere with that.

Connect it directly to computer with Ethernet cable it should show up in time machine as an available backup drive, or try bridge mode to connect to existing network.

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5104

 

[snaky69]

I want to setup my time capsule to be used ONLY as an external drive, I was just going through the motions on airport utility and wasn't getting anywhere with that.

Plug it in through ethernet to your main router and turn off the wireless on your main router.

 

[DubLogic19]

Well what I was questioning was the possibility of using it as a harddrive without plugging in through an ethernet cable, guess that's not possible. Thanks to all who were helpful.

 

[snaky69]

Well what I was questioning was the possibility of using it as a harddrive without plugging in through an ethernet cable, guess that's not possible. Thanks to all who were helpful.

Why bother with a Time Capsule then? A simple USB hard drive would've done the same job for less.

 

[DubLogic19]

Why bother with a Time Capsule then? A simple USB hard drive would've done the same job for less.

I'm gonna setup a network with it eventually. that's why.