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[Mac Address] "Apple cancelled this, now what?" The history of early apple wifi and airport (www.youtube.com)
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[–] [B] 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I still have my little AirPort Time Capsule tower. It’s been nearly a decade and that thing has been dutifully backing up my data every single day, save for a few hiccups over the years. I switched it from hourly to daily to maybe get some extra years out of it, but man. I absolutely love that product. The NAS marketplace even to this day hasn’t made a product as simple and seamless as the time capsule - plus it’s a great router!

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    You might want to do a test restore just to make sure the disk in there is still good. A decade is a long time for a mechanical disk, and you might just be writing your latest files to the disk dutifully every day while bad sectors linger elsewhere on the disk.

    Just saying... verify your backups. And I mean by doing a restore, not Apple's verify which doesn't actually check every byte.

    It's usually good to have at least two backups anyway.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I worked at Apple for 21 years in Comms QA and I had good times working with the AirPort base station guys. The tower AirPort Extreme was a great unit and I still have one brand new that I bought when I heard Apple was ending production. It doesn’t support all of the current bells and whistles, but it was just a good, solid unit. Sadly, the base station team has been scattered to the winds, but I memba.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    Thank you. I have two of the towers, connected with ethernet. Full coverage of everywhere I care about, and they hand-off wifi calls seamlessly. I dread the day they die....they just work and full AC speed reliably.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I use Synology and for my backup. It’s been working great for me. Pretty easy setup, though not Apple easy, it’s the best experience for a redundant system I’ve seen

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    same, w have 2 synology and I still keep the time capsule going. I round robin backups between the 3 of them. (my home LAN has a wireless bridge over to my sister's house, so one sits in a cupboard her place and gives a physical redundancy)

    Definite 'appliances'. So far they just sit and do their thing, no intervention necessary

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