I’d love to hear from anyone using Time Capsule… I’ve seen a few reports of problems, and would like to follow up. These are mixed indeed.
Reports as follows, from MacFixIt:
Brian Charles
I received my 500GB TimeCapsule just over a week ago. After a painless setup, it replaced my aging Snow Base station and all seemed fine.
Within a few hours though it dropped connections to my laptop and mini, my desktop is wired so no problem there, or so I thought. It seems to interfere with DHCP over the network, sporadically reassigning IP’s. My first back up from a MacPro connected directly to the TimeCapsule via ethernet took more than 96 hours for 250GB. Connection signal to my Mac mini in the living room from my upstairs office was worse than the Snow Basestation which is just 802.1a.
I spent 2 days troubleshooting, resetting the hardware, reformatting the drive to no avail.
This morning the TimeCapsule was completely locked up with the disk spinning loudly. It was too hot to touch.
This morning I called Apple for an RMA. I’ll pay their restocking charge. TimeCapsule is a dud. This is by far the worst product I’ve ever purchased from Apple.
Peter Morris
I received a TC on Wednesday (two days before Apple said I would receive it) for a customer. As they are moving soon, I added it to the pre-existing G network. It’s taking a long time to back everything up, one Intel iMac, two G5s and two MacBooks. It’s hogging the wireless bandwidth so much, that they are now only turning Time Machine on when they leave. Hopefully, that will have resolved itself over the weekend. Other than that, it has so far worked as advertised.
Mark Booth
I’ve had my 500GB Time Capsule for a week now. After the initial backups, subsequent Time Machine backups from my wife’s iMac or my MacBook Pro take mere minutes. Accessing the device wirelessly via Time Machine (to restore a file) adds a few seconds to the process (versus a Firewire or USB drive), but really no big deal!
So far, Time Capsule has performed flawlessly for me!
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