Developer | Apple Inc. |
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Type | Backup drive, AirPort Extreme base station |
Release date | February 29, 2008 |
Discontinued | April 26, 2018 |
Storage | 500 GB to 3 TB Server-grade HDD |
Website | https://www.apple.com/timecapsule |
Model | 1st generation (early 2008) | 2nd generation, part 1 (early 2009) | 2nd generation, part 2 (mid 2009) | 3rd generation (late 2009) | 4th generation (mid 2011) | 5th generation (mid 2013) | ||||||
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Marketing name | Time Capsule | AirPort Time Capsule | ||||||||||
Release date | February 29, 2008 | March 3, 2009 | July 30, 2009 | October 20, 2009[23] | June 21, 2011 | June 10, 2013 | ||||||
Marketing model number | MB276LL/A | MB277LL/A | MB764LL/A | MB765LL/A | MB765LL/A (same as early 2009) | MB996LL/A | MC343LL/A | MC344LL/A | MD032LL/A | MD033LL/A | ME177LL/A | ME182LL/A |
Model number | A1254 | A1302 | A1355 | A1409 | A1470 | |||||||
Hard drive | 500 GB | 1 TB | 500 GB | 1 TB | 1 TB | 2 TB | 1 TB | 2 TB | 2 TB | 3 TB | 2 TB | 3 TB |
Original price | US$299 (smaller hard drive model) / US$499 (larger hard drive model) | US$299 (2TB) / US$399 (3TB) | ||||||||||
Guest networking | No | Yes | ||||||||||
802.11a/b/g/n 2.4 GHz / 5 GHz bands | Single-band operation | Dual-band operation | ||||||||||
Internal Wi-Fi | Marvell | Atheros AR9220/AR9223 | Marvell | Broadcom BCM4331 | Broadcom BCM4360 | |||||||
Standards | 802.11 DSSS 1 & 2 Mbit/s standard, 802.11a/b/g/n (draft) | 802.11 DSSS 1 & 2 Mbit/s standard, 802.11a/b/g/n | 802.11 DSSS 1 & 2 Mbit/s standard, 802.11ac (draft)/a/b/g/n | |||||||||
Data link protocol | Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n (draft) | Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n | Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11ac (draft)/a/b/g/n | |||||||||
Network / transport protocol | Bonjour, IPsec, L2TP, PPTP | Bonjour, DHCP, DNS, IPsec, L2TP, PPPoE, PPTP |
Setting up Wake on Demand', 'Setting up a Bonjour Sleep Proxy
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