Welcome to my Apple equipped home, and let me introduce you to my latest device: Time Capsule.

Time Capsule is first of all a wireless accesspoint, but also a 500 GB Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. Needless to say, it works seamlessly with MacOS X 10.5′s inbuilt backup solution Time Machine. But it is not restricted to working with only 10.5 or MacOS X, and is of course also working with Windows and Linux. But having said that, Time Capsule only comes with installation and administration software for MacOS X and Windows. The setup takes a matter of minutes, and once it’s up and running, its disk drive is visible to any computer on the network.

Apple Time Capsule

As you can see from this first screenshot, Apple has done it real easy to set Time Capsule up for you and they have also made some sensible security choices for you: WEP is not an option. As this device is not for the enterprise, only WPA/WPA 2 Personal is available as wireless security.

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