Reviews for Time Capsule - 2TB

I can't imagine what all the bad reviews are all about! It works perfect and have not had the first problem with it and is a life saver! Try it for yourself before you hesitate to buy this product.

I was thrilled when I found about the Time Capsule, a hard drive and router all in one. These were the two things that I was looking for and sure enough I got them. The router portion of the TC works wonderfully, a huge improvement with my internet speed, literally night and day. The hard drive for the TC works wonderfully, the storage is just right for my school work and the back up is quick and simple. Plus, the installation of took me around 5 minutes, plus another 5 minutes to tinker around with stuff to perfect it to my liking. So for now, everything is running smoothly, plus it can also work as a portable hard drive so if I need to bring it with me where there is no internet connection, it works flawlessly. I would strongly recommend this product to anyone asking me about it, I have yet to see where all these low ratings have come from.

The one thing that does need to change is be able to adjust the time between back up's, because honestly. Every hour is totally unnecessary I would love if it backed up once a day.

Other than that, awesome product! Thanks again Apple, keep it up!

There is iTV, and there's Time Capsule, but the two cannot play together to stream local movie files on the TC. Mind you Apple that not movies are bought through iTunes. Apple should also create an easier way to connect network printers (not thru USB) and this may be the game buster since they are the one who invented Bonjour.

I've had my TC for over a year. And over that past year, I have "reset" it to factory settings at least a dozen times. Really. Pathetic.

I have 20mbps internet from TWC. I regularly see 25mbps when things are working right. Then, out of the blue, it will slow to 0.40mbps. Then, another speed test reveals 0.09mbps.

After much searching online, hundreds of hundreds of other people have similar problems with the TC as a wifi router. There are a dozen "fixes" out there, but none are official from Apple, they are just wannabe experts sharing what worked for them. Things like "just reset it to factory settings" and "revert to older firmware" are pretty prevalent.

Problem is, these are all bandaids for what appears to be a pretty large, and IGNORED problem from Apple.

Get it together guys.

And I am certainly not a hater. I'm typing on a 2011 iMac, connected to my iPhone 4S. My wife has a Macbook and an iPhone as well. I just want a product that I paid (overpaid) very well for to work properly. Having to "reset to factory settings" is a PITA when you have multiple items connected to the wifi (printer, phones, etc).

Apple, please fix this problem. It's frankly, pathetic.

I can't be more happy than I am with the purchase of Time Capsule. I contemplated the purchase when I was getting an iMac, thinking it was a little expensive & more than I had planned on spending, but now almost three years later when the hard drive on that iMac decided to just crash one day - EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING was saved & able to be restored from the Time Capsule! I can't say it was a super simple process for restore (b/c there were updates & new OS issues to get straight before I would call it a clean restore) but none of the issues were a Time Capsule issue - that puppy did as it was suppose to and I didn't lose a thing, not even a night's sleep - b/c EVERYTHING was saved!!! I love you Red Solo... I mean Time Capsule!!! ha ha ha Don't even blink an eye nor consider it a moment longer - BUY THE DANG THING, it'll save your life, one day! They say it's not if your hard drive crashes, it's when - you want to be prepared!!!

Got this yesterday and have backed up my iMac and Macbook Air by simply turning Time Machine on once connected to the Time Capsule (which itself just takes 2 seconds using Airport Utility). I've also turned off the wireless on my BT Homehub 3 and let this do the work instead - works like a dream. Nice and fast and I love that I can set up guest networks so easily.

I had been advised to go for the cheaper option of plugging an external USB hard-drive in to the Homehub - but it was far too clunky and took a whole evening of messing around with obscure settings in an ugly, browser based user interface which seemed to have been designed by a hacker - without any joy. This worked straight from the box, has a lovely minimal interface (Airport Utility and Time Machine) and has taken all of my concerns about backing up off me.. it really does 'just work'.

The wireless portion does not play well with PC devices. In addition, the backup HD began to fail shortly after warranty ended. Kept it for the router portion and switched to a different backup HD. The router completely failed within 12 months of this and is dead. I do not recommend this product. For reference, I have iMac, 2 iPads, and MBP. All those products have been excellent but this one was a complete waste of money.

Deciding whether or not I wanted to buy the new dual band Time Capsule and as always, I decided to check out the reviews.
I am surprised to read that more than a few have had issues with their Time Capsule so I decided to put in my two-cents worth. First-off, using various brands of routers, I've had my house home-networked wirelessly for 15+ years, all served me well but brought me connectivity issues one-time or another. Since the coming of the iPod, my family has always used Apple products. My kids (now grown and gone) loved them because they were cool but for my wife and I, because of the convenience and seamless home network integration with our music, videos, apps and now most importantly, staying in touch with our kids, friends and workplaces.
Windows Vista and its compatibility issues with nearly every peripheral and software I had, drove me over the edge to purchase my first MAC All-in-One and with it, the Time Capsule Extreme. From the time I turned on my MAC and Time Capsule to the time I had every wireless device in my household seamlessly connected was maybe 20 minutes and my entire music collection wirelessly transferred in about an hour.
Since that time and to extend my network, I purchased the 2 TB Time Capsule and moved my Extreme to middle part of my home to strengthen my network for Apple TV and other Airplay compatible devices. In fact, the process was so simple and seamless that I purchased the Airport Express to extend the network to my “man area” in my back yard.
No connectivity problems, no hardware issues and no backup challenges. I can’t speak for everyone else but my experience with Airport devices have been nothing but positive.

Ok,

So here goes, I was very hesitant to purchase the time capsule because of the poor reviews from the last year. I spoke with customer support on line and was assured that the bugs had been worked out and the time capsule is working wonderfully. So I took the chance and purchased it. Well nervously I opened it and plugged it in. Well within 1 minute the network was up and running and the wireless is AMAZING! It is faster than anything I have ever used. So now it's time to back up all my files and my music and I am scared to death but SURPRISE! It was too easy to do and wicked fast! So in summary this is worth every single penny!

So now whats next! Thanks Apple