Very Slow Time Capsule WiFi Speeds - Disappointing

Hi,

I've read a lot about this in the TC posts, but have yet to see a solution. The wireless speeds on my 1TB TC is solidly slower than my old Linksys router. Whereas my Linksys can manage speeds greater than 12,000kb/s, the TC can only manage around 6 max. Most of the time, it's much slower. I've disabled backups, and nothing is different other than removing the Linksys, and replacing it with the TC. Needless to say, this is very troubling. And yes, I've applied the recent airport update to my mac, and the system update to the TC.

Has anyone found a solution for this, and if not, has Apple confirmed this as an issue.

Help!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Mar 21, 2008 4:55 PM

20 replies

jesaf00

Level 1

45 points

Mar 23, 2008 5:40 PM in response to th3_r3n3g4d3

fore somereason, changing me multicast rate on my TC to 12 mb from 6mb raised my average transfer speed from 5mb to 12 mb. I can not figure out why it would effect the speed, but I am way happier with my TC now.

DonH49

Level 6

16,716 points

Mar 23, 2008 6:28 PM in response to RJBSMPLS

chicago to detroit 22000 kbps and 1550 upload.

RJBSMPLS

Level 1

0 points

Mar 23, 2008 6:50 PM in response to petdetec

You are seeing what looks to be the same thing that I am seeing, I have a 10 Meg downstream connection but it mostly shows 3 Meg when I am connected to the TC wirelessly. I have increased my multicast rate to see what difference it makes and am so far seeing the faster rates but will watch it some more. I changed mine from the default of 2Mbps to 11Mbps.

Mar 31, 2008 4:13 PM in response to RJBSMPLS

It is my understanding a 1 gig wired network will be faster than a wired connection.

Oct 21, 2008 11:55 AM in response to susanlschultz

I had the same issue I bought a 500gb time Capsule to replace my Airport Extreme Base Station but once I installed the TC my 16mg internet service went to 3mg wireless or wired was about the same. After a day of testing I connected my cable modem to the Airport Extreme and then connected the 1gb ethernet cable from the Airport Extreme to the TC and created a 5ghz network on the TC and a 2.4ghz on the Airport Extreme and both are at 15mg of down load from the net.

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Very Slow Time Capsule WiFi Speeds - Disappointing