First experience with Time Capsule

March 17th, 2008

I bought a 1TB Apple Time Capsule today.  Hopefully, it can replace my WRT54G and a linux NAS box I have.  Out of the box, it was up and running in about 5 minutes.  The utility software picked up the un-configured Time Capsule and walked me through the configuration in just a few simple steps.
After confirming that my cable modem used DHCP, entering a password for disk access, and entering a WPA2 password, everything was up and online.  A nice little touch, the utility software that configured the Time Capsule’s wireless network automatically reconfigured my Airport card to connect to the WPA2 802.11N network on the Time Capsule.  After getting online, I opened up the Time Machine configuration setting pane, selected ‘Change Disk’, picked the Time Capsule out of the list, and that was it.  
It’s now doing DHCP, Wifi, NAS, TimeMachine hosting, and routing/NAT’ing my cable modem, with a grand total of 5 minutes of configuration and maybe half a dozen clicks.  Fairly impressive!  802.11N is so much faster than 802.11G, it’s unbelievable.  I should have upgraded to N a while ago! 

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