Last week Apple gave me a Time Capsule because of all of the problems I had with my Mac. That was awesome of them!
My network at home consisted of an Airport Extreme as my router and 802.11n wireless access point, with a Linksys acting in bridge mode and a 802.11g wireless access point. I did this because separating the N and G devices makes the N network much, much faster.
I decided I would make the new Time Capsule my router, as it also has gigabit ethernet, and replace the Linksys with my current Airport Extreme. Thus the process would be:
- Migrate the Airport Extreme to bridge mode
- Change the Airport Extreme to 802.11n (2.4ghz)
- Change the Airport Extreme SSID to the 802.11g SSID
- Set up the Time Capsule with the old Airport Extreme settings
Steps 1-3 went fine. When I installed the Time Capsule it said “Hey! Do you want to replace an existing device?” and I answered “Yes!” and chose my old Airport Extreme settings from the list.
I then renamed the Device to “Time After Time” (clever, eh?) and was up and running!
Or so I thought.
Throughout the week, my backups were slow, my network was acting funny, all sorts of weird issues.
At first I thought it might be that the Time Capsule disk had spaces in the name, which unix does not like, so I renamed the disk using Airport Utility via the Disks panel.
That did not help, then on the Time Capsule tab I discovered one major issue:
The bonjour name (shown here correctly) had been copied from the Airport Extreme and worse, not changed when I changed the Time Capsule name. The Airport Extreme was still in use, so there were two devices on the network with the same bonjour name.
I clicked the Edit… button and changed the bonjour name to timeaftertime.local. Since then, things have been much, much smoother.
Be careful when you let Apple make things easy for you!