Placement of my Time Capsule

[Indy Golfer]

As of right now my Time Capsule is sitting on my desk in my office. A friend of mine had his house broken into and had everything stolen, it made me start thinking about protecting my data. I am thinking about running cable and power to my closet and putting my Time Capsule in there. The closet is in the middle of a small house (1600 sq ft ranch), think I will have any signal issues? See any downside to doing this?

Thanks!

 

[eternlgladiator]

As of right now my Time Capsule is sitting on my desk in my office. A friend of mine had his house broken into and had everything stolen, it made me start thinking about protecting my data. I am thinking about running cable and power to my closet and putting my Time Capsule in there. The closet is in the middle of a small house (1600 sq ft ranch), think I will have any signal issues? See any downside to doing this?

Thanks!

Unless your closet is made of bricks I doubt you'll have any problems. Even then it would probably be ok. Either way, you'll know right away.

 

[Indy Golfer]

I figured as much, just wanted to make sure before I spend time running cable and power to the closet.

Off topic, has anyone compared wireless connection speeds vs connection speeds with the computer plugged into the Time Capsule?

Thanks again

 

[flynz4]

As of right now my Time Capsule is sitting on my desk in my office. A friend of mine had his house broken into and had everything stolen, it made me start thinking about protecting my data. I am thinking about running cable and power to my closet and putting my Time Capsule in there. The closet is in the middle of a small house (1600 sq ft ranch), think I will have any signal issues? See any downside to doing this?

Thanks!

Protecting your data is smart. However, until you automatically, and continuously move your data off-site, you will always have an issue. I strongly recommend that you subscribe to one of the offsite data backup services. I have used Mozy and Crashplan+ each for two years and have been happy with both. Since Mozy changed away from "unlimited", I would recommend CP+. I consider CP+ to be my primary backup... and I also backup all of my Macs to TC's as a secondary backup mostly used for quick restores.

/Jim