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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1013038" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>You can do what you want with the Airport Extreme. Time Machine should work with a hard drive attached to the USB port. The specs for the Express suggest that the USB port on the Express works for shared printing but makes no mention of hard drive use. The other difference between the Extreme and Express is that the Extreme is dual band. Slower 802.11b or g clients won't slow down the 802.11n clients on your network.</p><p></p><p>I currently use an external hard drive attached to my Time Capsule. That drive functions as my Time Machine backup so the process should work fine. The first time you run the backup I suggest connecting by Ethernet wirelessly. The initial Time Machine backup can be quite slow wirelessly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1013038, member: 131855"] You can do what you want with the Airport Extreme. Time Machine should work with a hard drive attached to the USB port. The specs for the Express suggest that the USB port on the Express works for shared printing but makes no mention of hard drive use. The other difference between the Extreme and Express is that the Extreme is dual band. Slower 802.11b or g clients won't slow down the 802.11n clients on your network. I currently use an external hard drive attached to my Time Capsule. That drive functions as my Time Machine backup so the process should work fine. The first time you run the backup I suggest connecting by Ethernet wirelessly. The initial Time Machine backup can be quite slow wirelessly. [/QUOTE]
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