I ordered a 500Gb Time Capsule on the weekend and installed it a couple of days ago. A Time Capsule is an Apple product that combines an 802.11n router and print server with a large hard drive suitable for network storage or (for Macs running Leopard) automatic backup.

The backup runs about as well as I’d expect over a wireless network considering that it’s not just copying files, it’s also doing comparisons (I see about 2-4Mb/second), and the 802.11n wireless speed is obviously a lot faster than the old 802.11g Airport Express that I was using (I’m running a 5Ghz n-only network with a 63-character WPA2 key).

The best thing about the upgrade, though, is that after reconfiguring my network so that my rubbish Netcomm ADSL router is running in bridge mode (meaning that the Time Capsule does my PPPoE login and does all the NAT for the network), the Back to my Mac feature that I was so looking forward to in Leopard started working!

There goes my productivity…