Time capsule unable to connect to internet

If it doesn't get the IP on the wan interface.. do you need to reboot the fibre to ethernet converter.. sorry but fibre is still pretty new to me.

Do the connectivity LED go on for WAN port on the TC.

If not set the speed lower or try a new cable.

Ok.. do you get a public IP through your system.. ??

If you get a private IP in the range 10.0.x.x then the TC will not work.. it cannot route the same IP it has on the LAN side to WAN..

Please post a few screen shots of the summary page.. showing the WAN IP.

Much easier in v5 utility of course. Tell me if you run Mountain Lion and need v5 instead of toyland v6.

Ok, give me a screen shot of your NAT setup.. you should be running the TC in full router mode.

I do not have the option for a secondary IP range.

Can you please remove that secondary range and just use the primary.

So no improvement??

You have correctly got the public ip on TC.. and you have NAT setup correctly.. I don't see any particular issues why it wouldn't work.

From a computer plugged in via ethernet

please open a terminal and type

traceroute 8.8.8.8

Just copy and paste the result in the thread. eg from mine.

macproie-5:~ Ray$ traceroute 8.8.8.8

traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets

1 bigpond (192.168.2.254) 84.416 ms 96.062 ms 100.002 ms

2 adsl1.mel.dft.com.au (203.123.69.176) 8.109 ms 8.561 ms 9.048 ms

3 tge0-1-0-308.core0.mel.dft.com.au (203.123.72.73) 8.639 ms 9.470 ms 8.679 ms

4 ix0.syd.eftel.com.au (202.61.186.165) 26.137 ms 21.788 ms 21.963 ms

5 google-ix.syd.eftel.com.au (202.76.170.186) 22.593 ms 22.486 ms 22.077 ms

6 66.249.95.226 (66.249.95.226) 23.890 ms

66.249.95.224 (66.249.95.224) 22.950 ms

66.249.95.226 (66.249.95.226) 22.622 ms

7 66.249.95.233 (66.249.95.233) 22.435 ms

66.249.95.235 (66.249.95.235) 26.508 ms 22.981 ms

8 72.14.237.21 (72.14.237.21) 22.916 ms 22.758 ms 22.733 ms

9 google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8) 23.065 ms 23.254 ms 23.116 ms

macproie-5:~ Ray$

Then do a traceroute to www.google.com

And see what happens.

macproie-5:~ Ray$ traceroute www.google.com

traceroute: Warning: www.google.com has multiple addresses; using 74.125.237.16

traceroute to www.google.com (74.125.237.16), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets

1 bigpond (192.168.2.254) 60.472 ms 98.479 ms 100.001 ms

2 adsl1.mel.dft.com.au (203.123.69.176) 8.409 ms 8.077 ms 8.574 ms

3 te0-0-0-306.core0.mel.dft.com.au (203.123.72.65) 8.370 ms 8.798 ms 8.810 ms

4 ix0.syd.eftel.com.au (202.61.186.165) 21.455 ms 21.944 ms 21.902 ms

5 google-ix.syd.eftel.com.au (202.76.170.186) 22.257 ms 22.315 ms 21.904 ms

6 66.249.95.226 (66.249.95.226) 22.157 ms 23.464 ms 22.760 ms

7 72.14.237.49 (72.14.237.49) 22.864 ms 22.861 ms 43.255 ms

8 syd01s04-in-f16.1e100.net (74.125.237.16) 22.992 ms 23.214 ms 21.897 ms

macproie-5:~ Ray$

TC lacks lots of tools that are common in most routers to see what is going on.. but you are not routing correctly.. I think we have seen this happen before..

You are getting an different IP on the computer to the TC.. the one of the computer is successful and the one on the TC fails.

Can you post the full wan details of the TC again as you did above.. and the computer ethernet when they are connected.. I want to see the different gateways subnet masks and gateway (Apple call it routers. )

And suggest you try manually setting the address in the TC WAN exactly as the computer.

If you look at the TC it is unable to reach the gateway.. I think this is due to the IP address and the gateway (router) address are not in the same subnet.

46.236.105.182 is the TC address from what you previously quoted.

The subnet mask is 255.255.255.128

But the Router IP (gateway) is 46.236.104.129

As far as the TC is concerned it cannot reach the gateway because they are outside the subnet.

This issue happens with routers connecting via half bridge to pppoa adsl connections.. Windows and Mac OS can cope ok.. But Linux and NetBSD version apple use perhaps cannot.

In most routers you would fix it manually via the routing table. But TC doesn't really have any such system.

If you had a pppoe login or something it would work.. but with dhcp it is expecting correctly set values. ISP do not follow that.

For now you probably will not get over it .. you will need to use a router that can cope with your kind of connection. But ring the ISP and ask them if they have any level 2 support people who could nut out the IP and gateway not in the same subnet.

Ok..

What you are seeing is the difference between two different OS. The internal BSD in the TC is behaving correctly.. it is simply taking the values literally and not allowing the TC to route via the supplied gateway. It is outside the subnet mask supplied for WAN interface.

On the computer you are getting entirely different values.. which confuses me like anything.. !! How come the router address is never the same?? I don't know.

But if you use a subnet calculator eg http://www.subnet-calculator.com/

And plug those numbers in you get exactly the correct value for Router.

Do the same thing for the TC..

And the host address range is

46.236.105.129 - 46.236.105.254

So a gateway address of 46.236.104.x is hopelessly wrong.

Without access to the router table in the TC to manually set the packet routing, the TC cannot work with your type of broadband.

I found the answer in this archived post:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1421776?start=0&tstart=0

Basically, I did two things:

Went to AirPort Utility >> Disks, clicked on the name of the disk, which was Michael's Time Caps, and renamed it MikeTimeCap

I also disabled the guest network.

Now backing up for the first time in a week or so.