I bought a Time Capsule today. Hooked it up to the router via ethernet, disabled wifi as using the router's wifi. It sat on the network fine for about an hour, i copied some files to the hard drive connected to it, the windows machine downstairs saw the drive and files too. Now it's disappeared. Airport Utility shows it as not found. I'm stumped! Any ideas?
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Time Capsule woes....
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the green light was still on the TC, unplugging the TC and plugging back in worked, but I'd rather know it won't keep doing that, as I'm in a different room to it.
Time Capsule woes....
Router does devices via DHCP, time capsule in bridge mode, static address.
Router does devices via DHCP, time capsule in bridge mode, static address.
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Is it new or used?
I had a 1st gen TC that did the same thing yours is doing prior to it failing. It was also in bridge mode and the green light was solid even when it disappeared from the network. A reboot was required to get it back online, but eventually the PSU went and luckily Apple replaced it for me.
That's not to say yours is going to fail, but I'd keep an eye on it. See if you can take it in to Apple and see what they suggest. It may be that you have a faulty unit, and if they can replace it that may be the best course of action.
I had a 1st gen TC that did the same thing yours is doing prior to it failing. It was also in bridge mode and the green light was solid even when it disappeared from the network. A reboot was required to get it back online, but eventually the PSU went and luckily Apple replaced it for me.
That's not to say yours is going to fail, but I'd keep an eye on it. See if you can take it in to Apple and see what they suggest. It may be that you have a faulty unit, and if they can replace it that may be the best course of action.
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Faulty units do occur, even new out of the box. I would make an appointment with Apple and have them check it out. Something about the way it's behaving is sending up red flags in my head... just screams hardware failure...
Edit: I don't mean to be an alarmist, but considering it's still fairly new, I would use the warranty and have Apple either repair or replace it if it needs to be repaired or replaced.
Edit: I don't mean to be an alarmist, but considering it's still fairly new, I would use the warranty and have Apple either repair or replace it if it needs to be repaired or replaced.
Hmm will try and find time to get to the nearest apple store. It's just random that it's gone days without happening, then twice in 24 hours, now fine for nearly 2 days
