Thursday, March 12, 2009
Hooray for time capsule 7.4.1 update!
Apple has recently released an update for the Airport Extreme and the Time Capsule. I've got a 500gb time capsule, and for backing up over my wired ethernet network, it's great. Fast, efficient, and just what you'd want. It's slower than backing up to a firewire-800 drive, but my macbook air doesn't have a port for that.
However, backing up over the wifi network was painfully slow. In fact, it was broken. I use iStat Menus to monitor a number of things, including network utilization, and it was kind of annoying when Time Machine would say "preparing backup" forever, and there was clearly minimal network traffic. I tried switching from 2.4ghz to 5ghz 802.11N only, I tried switching to 2.4ghz 802.11g only, I tried a bunch of things. It all came down to that it worked with ethernet, not with wifi.
With the new firmware, that's a thing of the past. I just ran a time machine backup over wifi (802.11N, 5ghz), and it was peppy.
Now my macbook air can be less tethered.
However, backing up over the wifi network was painfully slow. In fact, it was broken. I use iStat Menus to monitor a number of things, including network utilization, and it was kind of annoying when Time Machine would say "preparing backup" forever, and there was clearly minimal network traffic. I tried switching from 2.4ghz to 5ghz 802.11N only, I tried switching to 2.4ghz 802.11g only, I tried a bunch of things. It all came down to that it worked with ethernet, not with wifi.
With the new firmware, that's a thing of the past. I just ran a time machine backup over wifi (802.11N, 5ghz), and it was peppy.
Now my macbook air can be less tethered.
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