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dellavoce

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Oct 14, 2007
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So I'm thinking about getting the time capsule for my new mac mini. I would like to upgrade from my g series wifi router to n. Also, as I have a mini with a 160gb hard drive, I keep my large collection of mp3 and video files on an external hard drive connected via USB. I was thinking that the time capsule would upgrade my router and free up a USB plug but I'm wondering if the read speed on it is fast enough to view videos and listen to music directly from the time capsule?
 
Yes.

Never had problems on my AppleTV viewing files via wifi hosted on my Mini but stored on a USB 2.0 connected external drive.
 
Yes, the practical throughput should be around 6 MB/s.

Unless you have media with a that high bit rate, you'll be fine.

.mp3 files usually have 128-320 Kbit/s (16 - 40 KB/s), video files have around 1 to 7 Mbit/s (125KB/s to 875KB/s).
 
For a couple reasons. First to free up a USB. Second to make media available to other computers in my home. Which brings me to my next question: can a pc also access stuff on the time capsule?
 
For a couple reasons. First to free up a USB. Second to make media available to other computers in my home. Which brings me to my next question: can a pc also access stuff on the time capsule?

I can stream 720p HD content from my Mini to the kids iMac + Plex no problem over the AEBS n network.
 
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