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noobinator

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Jun 19, 2009
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I have an old 3 TB Time Capsule that I've probably had for 5-6 years now. It has been dying lately (have to reboot it a few times per week and increasing). I just purchased a new model Airport Extreme. After some extensive testing the TC seems to give me about 20-25% higher Download speeds regularly and reproducible. I am baffled how a 6 year old wireless router seems to give me better performance than a brand new one. Is the tech in the TC vs Airport Extreme different or something? It probably doesn't make a huge different but it's an annoying variance. I see an average of 80mb/s down with TC and 60mb/s down with the Airport extreme.

Anyone else notice this or have any suggestions/explanations?
 
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