Well, the question is clear by itself. Basically, I am looking for a wireless router that will play nicely with the new Macbook Air and also the built-in Time Machine feature. Currently, I have a USB 2.0 External HD but my Netgear 614 doesn't have a USB port and is only G capable. I'd like to upgrade to something that will take my USB external drive and have N capacity. Another question I have is whether the built-in TM feature only work with the TM made by Apple or will it work with any external HD on wireless router? Please advise.
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Other devices besides Apple's Airport Extreme and Time Capsule have time machine support, but they (almost) all depend on something called netatalk, which only recently got updated with lion support. I seriously doubt any routers out right now will work with it out of the box, but its not impossible. I know NAS's are just now implementing support for it.
I personally run a wrt-600n as my router and then have a little sff pc running ubuntu with netatalk (and a few other enhancements, like network login) for time machine.
Right now, though, apples airport extreme seems like the only choice for tm enabled routers. -
I am not at all familiar with netatalk, I will have to do some research on it. Thx.
Which wireless router works best with Time Machine?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by lakersgo, Sep 14, 2011.