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I just bought Time Capsule and want to add it now to my legacy home network (will do the same to AppleTV too, next week when I receive it from the AppleStore). This legacy home network is slow and partially wired. I want to make the network faster where it can for the fast machines, for Time Machine and for distributing movies to AppleTV.
EXISTING
Inovia ADSL bridge to my ISP (1 Meg) connected to a legacy slow Airport Base Station V4.0.9 (connects to the internet via PPPoE), connected on its LAN side to a legacy Ethernet 10BaseT hub serving:
1 - By Ethernet cables:
A Mac SE (slow)
A LC 475 (slow)
An Epson Stylus Color 850 Ethernet printer (accessed through AppleTalk using GIMP-PRINT)
2 - Wireless (slowly, so far) by DHCP and NAT
An iBook (5 GHz capable)
An iMac (5 GHz capable)
FUTURE
Time capsule is fast (5 GHz capable) so I want to create a wireless network (5Ghz: call it "Fast") around it serving the iBook, the iMac and a future AppleTV and leave a separate wired and wireless slow network (2.4GHz: call it "Slow"). That makes two Wi-Fi networks in my little home
My first failed attempt was to leave the "Slow" network as it is now and simply connect to its 10BaseT hub, by Ethernet, the WAN side of the Time Capsule. Can't make it work so far
I saw on page 48 of the notice <http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Designing_AirPort_Networks_10.5-Windows.pdf> that Apple seems to propose the other way around (connect the Time Capsule directly to the ADSL bridge and connect the legacy Airport Base Station by Ethernet to the LAN side of Time Capsule. Why not ?
Can anyone explain the best way to go as my brain has stopped to function at this step? I will spare no time in testing and will summarise. TIA
EXISTING
Inovia ADSL bridge to my ISP (1 Meg) connected to a legacy slow Airport Base Station V4.0.9 (connects to the internet via PPPoE), connected on its LAN side to a legacy Ethernet 10BaseT hub serving:
1 - By Ethernet cables:
A Mac SE (slow)
A LC 475 (slow)
An Epson Stylus Color 850 Ethernet printer (accessed through AppleTalk using GIMP-PRINT)
2 - Wireless (slowly, so far) by DHCP and NAT
An iBook (5 GHz capable)
An iMac (5 GHz capable)
FUTURE
Time capsule is fast (5 GHz capable) so I want to create a wireless network (5Ghz: call it "Fast") around it serving the iBook, the iMac and a future AppleTV and leave a separate wired and wireless slow network (2.4GHz: call it "Slow"). That makes two Wi-Fi networks in my little home
My first failed attempt was to leave the "Slow" network as it is now and simply connect to its 10BaseT hub, by Ethernet, the WAN side of the Time Capsule. Can't make it work so far
I saw on page 48 of the notice <http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Designing_AirPort_Networks_10.5-Windows.pdf> that Apple seems to propose the other way around (connect the Time Capsule directly to the ADSL bridge and connect the legacy Airport Base Station by Ethernet to the LAN side of Time Capsule. Why not ?
Can anyone explain the best way to go as my brain has stopped to function at this step? I will spare no time in testing and will summarise. TIA