Apple Time Capsule Setup Without Ethernet Cable

Bought this as a replacement for my slowly dying Apple AirPort Time Capsule. Setup was relatively smooth, and the WD My Cloud is working as good, if not better, than the Time Capsule did. And it has enough space to back up all four of my family's MacBooks. Haven't used any of the other WD features, so I can't comment on that.

After suffering from months of lag and buffering from my Apple Time Capsule, I decided it was time to upgrade to the best on the market. Easy to set up, and it's working like a charm. Great product that's worth every penny.

These replace an Apple Airport Time Capsule ($600, replaced once by Apple) which Apple stopped making in 2016. I could not be happier so far. Using one as a router on the landing of my basement stairs and one on the windowsill in my problem room (a converted one-car garage with concrete walls under the new paneling), not only do I suddenly get coverage ALL OVER the house (a first), but it even reaches to an outdoor balcony, the covered porch in back, and a separate building in the yard where I have my pool table--where there was zero signal before. Also, the speeds are suddenly much faster. The worst speeds with the TP-Link are better than the best speeds with the Time Capsule. I didn't even do any experimenting with siting the second unit--I just put it on the windowsill where it was handiest (see pic), and it works fine. My experience did deviate from that of some others in that setup was not straightforward for me--I had to spend a lot of time on the phone with Chris from Spectrum, who was very patient and cheerful. I do live in a very rural area, and have a complicated 1880's house. We did get it running, and I'm still not sure how. But all is well in the end. I haven't even had these set up for one day so far, so I can't speak to reliability. But for performance, I'm very happy. The screen shot shows my speeds out on my front porch, which I use as my office. The porch is behind some real plaster walls with METAL lathe, which usually acts like a perfect RF shield. That is the largest speed number I've ever seen out here by a far shot. BIG KUDOS and thanks to B&H Customer Service--the rep I talked to prior to buying these (I wish I could remember his name) really did a thorough job running down my options, and recommended these along with two other recommendations at different price points. He told me I was going to see big gains in performance, and was he ever right.

Does the job ( Apple Time Capsule internal disk replaced). Fairly quiet and great price from B&H.

Replacing an Apple time capsule for routine backups. Passport was a chosen with expert help fromB&H customer service to match my hardware and personal needs. Knowledgeable help is hard to reach by phone these days.

I replaced a 7 year old Apple time capsule with this since it's one of the few routers out there that supports AFP network shares. The Synology firmware/software is really the star of the show. Very simple to set up and use, but lots of options and ability to customize rather esoteric features.

Not much to say about an ethernet cable, except that it works.

We use the Apple TV 4K all the time. Mostly YouTube and Home Sharing with iTunes for downloaded content stored on our NAS. We've tried it on WiFi and Ethernet and find Ethernet much more responsive. I would recommend getting the 128GB version just to have the ethernet port.

It definitely increased the Wi-Fi speed over my previous Unify setup, pretty much double it. I can get on an iPhone Internet speeds of 500Mb/sec if close by and 200-300Mb at a greater distance. There is no 2G/5G separate connections, the router is smart enough to figure out which connection is the best. The installation was easy after I've figured out how it works. First and foremost, DO NOT attach an ethernet cable. It'll stop the setup. Bring the AP relatively close to the main router, run the phone app to set it up. It takes a rather long time (~3 to 5min) to do all its setup. After the setup is done, you can move it to another location and connect an ethernet cable. It'll figure out by itself that the cable is plugged-in. Highly recommended product.

Purchased to connect a Wii to a cable router through an Ethernet cable to watch streaming Netflix. The setup was easy, just plugged-in the adapter, connected the cable, went into the Wii setup and told it to update, inserted the Netflix disk and I was done.