Dear Scott,
You are very kind. I'm in the UK which makes things a bit complicated.
I think I'm up and running although my eyes are closing - it's rather
late, and I have to be up at 6 tomorrow morning and working till 6PM.
Never mind, it's worth it.
Before I connected my airport express/cum time capsule, I had been
using my Mac in two locations and therefore had two different internet
connections. I guess it made things more complicated. I think I shall
delete the airport disk utility not to confuse myself. Is it safe to do?
I have made the configurations as logically as possible, and I am now
on the internet. Should I run into trouble, may I skype you? What's
your name? I shall obviously consider the time difference and your
time constraints. It's a steep learning curve, but I'm very excited.
I'm just installing fusion as well. So god help me!
I've managed to allocate 20 GB of hard drive to my bootcamp partition.
It won't be long before I incorporate it using fusion. but in the
meantime, I'm playing safe. Guys, I wish I had your knowledge, or the
time to go after it. Thanks for being there for people like me. Keen
but ignorant.
With best wisehs
Simon
On 20 Jan 2009, at 23:04, Scott Howell wrote:
Simon, first you do not need the AirPort Disk utility. Secondly, not
sure what you had previously if any router. If you had an AirPort
Express it is possible to copy settings if you will, but it depends
upon the configuration etc. Point is the setup shouldn;t have been
so difficult. Are you in the U.S? I can give you a yell if you need
some questions answered or we can get on SKype. The Time Capsule is
more an AirPort Extreme and backup solution combined into one unit.
The Express shares a number of similar features, but is yet
different unless they have made a lot of changes.
Scott Howell
[email protected]
On Jan 20, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
Dear Listers,
I'm exhausted but also trimphant because I've just managed - I
think I have managed - to set up my time capsule with airport
express. This promising device seems to combine airport express and
time capsule. However, having been assured by the shop assistant
where I had bought the device that it should pick up all my
settings automatically - I have spent the last 3 hours trying to do
so as it didn't do anything automatically. I have consequently a
very red hot face, and my heart's thumping.
Luckily, it seems that I am connected to the internet which is a
great relief.
prior to having bought the airport express/cum time capsule in one -
ż I had been connecting to the internet via an ethernet connection
and modem given to me by my ISP provider, virgin media. The shop
assistant told me that all I had to do was to connect the ethernet
cable to the airport express/time capsule and that my computer
should pick everything else up automatically. How mistaken I was to
believe that.
Anyway, I think all is wwell and working for now although I expect
some unexpected problems in the future.
Listers, I have in my utilities folder under applications two
apploications: airport disc utility and airport application. When I
try to launch the airport disk utility I get a message that this
application is not supported by the architecture. What does it mean?
Also, listers, Should you have any helpful tips on using airport
express/cum time capsule with Mac on which I also run windows under
bootcamp - although I shall soon be running windows under fusion,
please let me know. This is all rather technical, I feel very much
adrift and frightened. My work depends on my computer, I can't
afford to lose any communications related to work or appointments.
Thanks in advance for any tips you can give me. I have followed
very carefully all the threads realating to time capsule airport
express on the list in the knowledge that one day I will be going
that way but it is all very different when you are actually doing
it without the depth computer knowledge some of you/many of you
have on the list.
With many thanks
Simon
