The Airport Utility only recognises other Apple devices, so if you live in a densely populated area it won’t bother to show you all the assorted BT HomeHubs and other wireless routers in the immediate vicinity. MobileMe subscribers get on-the-desktop access to their Time Capsules over the internetĪs you’d expect from Apple, this process is pleasantly straightforward, and keeps the technical jargon to a minimum. It’s a lot neater than many other wireless routers and NAS drives that we’ve seen recently, and the hard disk is virtually silent, even when copying files onto it from multiple machines simultaneously, so you can place it in any convenient location without worrying about the noise. It’s a gleaming white square box, measuring just under 200mm wide and deep, and less than 50mm high. Not surprisingly, the Time Capsule looks much like the Airport wireless router, although the built-in hard disk means that it’s a little larger. We tested the 500GB version, which costs £229, and there’s a 1TB model as well, although this is priced at a far less attractive £379.
It’s primarily designed for use with the Time Machine backup software that's built into Mac’s OS X 10.5, but it uses standard 802.11a, b, g and n wireless technology so it can be used with older Macs and Windows PCs too. Apple's Time Capsule: updated for simultaneous dual-band wireless usageįor those who aren’t familiar with it already, the Time Capsule takes one of Apple’s standard Airport Extreme wireless routers and bolts a hard disk into it in order to provide a network storage system.
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