Jonathan Gosier's dashboard

Can you please add automated Delicious.com importing?

I've been using my Time Capsule for several months now and I'm convinced that there's some suspicious stuff going on in the background. I first noticed the problem back home in the States where I had pretty high-bandwidth before installing it. After I began using the TC as my router, the internet speeds were noticeably slower, but not enough to cause alarm because my connection was fast enough to begin width.

Then I moved to Africa where I set up the same system. Here, the wireless spectrum is far less crowded than it is in the States so I figured I get better performance out of all my Wifi gear. I'm using the TC as the main router and hub, several airport expresses scattered around the house are connected to it wirelessly, a printer and hard drive connected to the TC for printing and streaming movies wirelessly. Internet is far more expensive here. The connection is only 128kbps split (64 up and 64 down) so any complications are very noticeable. It was obvious right away I was having problems.

So I turned everything that might be using bandwidth from the router completely off, so that it's essentially just my Time Capsule and my laptop and I'm noticing that my internet bandwidth is still being hogged by the TC. I had my local ISP print out a report of my bandwidth usage and it shows that I'm using my entire 64kbps for uploads at ALL TIMES while using my TC as the router.

So to test my theory, I unplugged the TC and plugged the ethernet cable into my laptop. Now I've got my bandwidth back. The same report from the ISP shows that I have the full spectrum free until I begin using the network.

I'm only using the TC as a router, distributing wifi to my Macbook, iPhone, iMac and a PC. I only 'Back up to Time Machine' with an ethernet cable because it's faster and doesn't disturb the network. Even then I only back up one a month or so.

My question is why on earth would the Time Capsule be hogging all this internet bandwidth when it's not even really in use? I have a few tools for measuring the throughput of my Wifi devices (Airport Flow and Airport Utility) and I can see that the bottleneck isn't happening in the signal it's broadcasting. The bottleneck seems to be occurring at the actual input. Somehow the Time Capsule is trying to allocate my bandwidth in ways that I don't want or need it to. Is there a way to stop this?