The hard drive on my Time Capsule died about 18 months ago, but the TC is still working fine as a WiFi hub. I was using the hard drive as my Time Machine disk. I have since replaced it with a 5Gb external USB Drive, but the WiFi is working as well as ever.
The heat over the past few days did have an effect on my iMac though - yesterday morning iStat Menus told me the CPU was running at 95°C, which explained why the mouse had a mind of its own and very few Safari extensions were working properly, and I couldn’t connect to my Bluetooth headphones. Turned it all off overnight and everything is back to a normal 50-60°C today. Could have cooked bacon with it yesterday. > On 28 Dec 2021, at 4:13 pm, Adam Lippiatt <adam.lippi...@me.com> wrote: > > For what it is worth, I just bought a second hand airport extreme on ebay and > I love the ease of setup. I already have an older time capsule whose hard > disk is still spinning away for all of these years. >> On 28 Dec 2021, at 11:44 am, gary dorn <gd...@me.com <mailto:gd...@me.com>> >> wrote: >> >> hello WAMUG >> >> The heat over the last few days seems to have killed our 2012 Time Capsule, >> which we use to have a home Wifi network to connect all our devices too - >> phones, apple tv, macbook air and a printer. this time capsule was connected >> to a SouthernPhone wifi router for internet access. >> >> symptom is - no light (can hear and feel hardisk spinning) >> no home network connections via Wifi >> >> is there suggested replacement for this. >> >> We previously just used an Airport base station - which I have now >> reconnected to use in the mean time - but it tends to be a bit flaky and >> slow. >> Kind regards, Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
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