#WINDOWS APPLE AIRPORT UTILITY WINDOWS#
I have switched off Windows Firewall and I use Comodo in its place. Surely I should be getting faster speeds than that if I'm using 802.11g?
If I use Total Commander, the transfer seems to hang for a few seconds before beginning, and then I get transfer speeds of around 800kb/s. If I'm using Windows Explorer, the transfer will usually time out.Ģ. But when I try to copy data from my computer to my hard drive, what usually happens is this.ġ. Albeit slowly.Īpple says that the AE should automatically work out what the best band to use is, so since its capable of a+b, g and n, it should have automatically set itself to use Wireless G, since that's what the router is set to generate. This allows both my laptop and my wife's laptop to access the drive. My Airport Extreme is set up to join that network wirelessly, which it does with ease. I've set it to use WPA2 TKIP and to use 802.11g. I have a Billion Wireless Modem generating my access point. The way my network is set up is is as follows. But if I access it via WiFi, even with my laptop sitting right next to the AE, well, like I said. The drive works fine if I plug it directly into my computer via USB, transferring data takes a very short amount of time. Problem is that data transfer between my computer and the wireless hard drive is sloooooooooow. I use it to wirelessly access my USB hard drive with my late 2009 model MacBook Pro, which runs Windows 7, from around the house. But if there's any way I could just keep backing up to my Time Capsule I'd love to just use the existing equipment that's I have.I own one of Apple's new Airport Extreme base stations. I used to notice in Airport Utility that random household devices were connecting to the Time Capsule instead of the AirPort Extreme, so does that mean that I'd need to create those same reservations on the Time Capsule as well, or am I all set now that I've added them to the AirPort Extreme (the master router?) Alternatively, is there any way to just use the Time Capsule as sort of a wireless hard drive for my Macs and keep any other device from connecting to it just to maybe save myself some time and potential confusion?Īlso, since unplugging the Time Capsule, I swear that AirPlaying to my Airport Expresses has been way smoother - before I used to get skips and cutouts all the time - so now I'm wondering if having the two routers in the house was somehow just too much. Lately though I've been wanting to use it again to back up my Macs, but now that I've set up all those DHCP reservations, I'm not sure if doing that would mess things up too much. However a few weeks ago I unplugged the Time Capsule when I was moving stuff around and it's been turned off ever since.
When I did that, in Airport Utility, the Time Capsule (as well as a few Airport Expresses that we have) all showed up as being downstream from the AirPort Extreme, so to speak. my roommate's AirPort Extreme) in order to not mess with the existing setup too much, and since then I've been backing up my Macs to my Time Capsule no problem while keeping everything on the same wireless network. When I moved in I set that up to just "join the wireless network" that the house already had (i.e. However, I already owned, from my previous apartment, my own latest gen Airport Time Capsule. (That's the device I just set up all my DHCP reservations on). Long story short, a while ago I moved in with some new roommates who already had a latest gen AirPort Extreme as their wireless router. So now I have a follow up question (that's pretty convoluted.apologies in advance) and was wondering if anyone here would have any thoughts for me again.
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