![]() Truthfully, as ridiculously cheap cloud backup solutions like BackBlaze are now, I don't see the value anymore.Ĭlick to expand.Thank you for the completeness of your response. If you think you still need wireless 'ac' throughout the house, then replace the existing Time Capsule with a new one, or with another Airport Extreme if you don't find there is added value in using the built-in drive of a Time Capsule for backups. If in doubt, get an Airport Extreme use that as the base station and move the Time Capsule upstairs to serve as the extender. I'd lean more to maximizing my available speeds/bandwidth if there is a lot of video streaming going on or other high bandwidth activity. I doubt it will be a significant concern in a typical home situation. The more devices that are actively connected and using the extender, the more the extender will struggle to feed data in and out. If a device was connected to the main base station, the connection speeds to "the internet" is maxed out by what the ethernet cable can handle, which is greater than what's handled wirelessly. The extender will inherently be slower because its own connection to "the internet" is limited by wireless 'n' speeds, or wireless 'ac' speeds in the case of the Airport Extreme. The extender will have to take a transmission from a device route it to the base station and the base station in turn routes it out to "the internet". Now, the overall effect on bandwidth and connection speed will be impacted by the number of devices that are actively using either router, and this holds true no matter which standard either router supports. You can't pick and choose which router to connect to. The devices will connect to whichever router has the stronger signal for where it is at the time. I do not know why an ethernet switch, which I assume is basically a pass-through device, should isolate the TC from the modem, but thought that it could not hurt to give it a try. I had a conversation with one of the Apple Specialists who suggested placing a router (with the wifi signal turned off) or an ethernet switch between the modem and the Time Capsule to try to isolate it and that is what I have done. As it is I have had repeated problems using it as a router as it seems very sensitive to fluctuations in the incoming modem signal and I was constantly having to reboot it or reset and reconfigure it. I assume that it was introduced something like 4 years ago and that is why I called it "somewhat old". I was new to the Mac when I bought my MBP 2 1/2 years ago and bought a refurbished TC at about the same time so it was the previous version, not the one that was new at that time. Based on this I guess I assumed incorrectly. Of course I know that each can receive wifi from the devices like laptops, iPads and so on, but I assumed that those devices used different handshakes than the base stations and that the TC and AE needed a hard ethernet connection. I was not aware of the TC or the AE being able to receive wifi signals from each other and rebroadcast them, but I guess that is what would have to happen. The Apple webpage said that the Extreme could be used as an extender for the Time Capsule and showed a graphic of how that works but there was no physical connection between the TC and the AE. I was actually reading about doing exactly what you suggest with the Airport Extreme the other day but I guess I am missing something about the devices themselves. ![]() ![]() Click to expand.I was new to the Mac when I bought my MBP 2 1/2 years ago and bought a refurbished TC at about the same time so it was the previous version, not the one that was new at that time.
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