It's time to replace your AirPort Time Capsule — She's Wired

Jul 07, 2012 How to Set up Time Capsule to Extend A Wireless Network, 2 Say your existing Time Capsule or Airport Express’s is a previous generation running an older wireless protocol. And now you’ve a newer Apple Time Capsule or Airport Extreme and want to take advantage of the faster networking with 802.11ac. The newer 802.11ac device will … Massively speed up Time Machine backups | Mac Kung Fu Massively speed up Time Machine backups. 13 March 2016, 04:15. Time Machine and its network-equipped brother, Time Capsule, are superb innovations. They make backup seamless, invisible and easy. They’re also slow. Really slow. Fix Slow Time Machine Backups on a Mac

The best thing to do, in my opinion, is to connect the Time Capsule to the network via gigabit ethernet. First of all: Make sure you have a router with gigabit ethernet ports (or it will be actually slower than WiFi "n"!) Make sure your cables can support gigabit ethernet (have to be "class 5e" or higher, preferably) Then, connect the Time

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Using your Time Capsule to Create your Wireless Network When you set up your Time Capsule to provide network and Internet access, Macintosh computers with AirPort or AirPort Extreme Cards, and 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, and IEEE 802.11n draft specification wireless-equipped computers, and …

Synology calls these NAS boxes "play" e. g. DS216play. They often have other drawbacks. You have to spend more to get hardware level support for proper media-streaming. This is, however, not the usual task for a NAS and is only interesting if you need to stream 4K files (most often other bottlenecks are in-place like a slow network connection