Yes, the iPhone is 802.11g, so when it’s on the network transmitting data the network must “throttle down” to “g” speeds. However, the iPhones (I have two in my house) are not on the network very often. Most of an iPhone’s life is spent in standby, at which point it isn’t on the network at all.

Thanks again.

I’d plug the Mac in that same Ethernet port to ensure the port is working. Assuming the port is OK, if the printer also supports USB I’d try sharing it that way just to see if it works.

If there was a routine to perform for the printer with the old router maybe it needs to be performed again. At this point it’s hard to say whether this is a printer or TC issue.

In my case, the printer had never been on Ethernet before, being used wirelessly with my Linksys. As a ‘b’ device, however, I opted to use Ethernet with the Time Capsule. I just plugged it in and it worked.

It’s only been a few days since the review, but so far all is well. I changed the setting to blink the light at network activity, and found it was always “active” (and blinking) so changed it back to glow constantly. Those two reboots are all I’ve done in the last four days. No dropped connections or any other issues so far.

It does seem that with the Linksys the MacBook was back on the Internet pretty much “instantly” upon waking, whereas with the TC it takes 5-10 seconds. That’s the closest thing I have to a complaint with the unit right now — and I’m fine with it.

One thing I’ve discovered with my AE: sometimes when things go awry, it’s not enough to unplug/plug the AE. A few times, I’ve had to do the same with my switches on the network.

The 2nd strange issue is my Wii no longer connects wirelessly to the AE since the upgrade to Leopard. Not that I’ve spent much time trying to troubleshoot it, but interesting nonetheless.

Thanks. I will turn off the WAN setting for the printer and see if it makes any difference. When I went to Printers, it didn’t show any USB printers shared, and the setting for sharing Ethernet printers was unchecked, so I checked it.

Regarding TM, my tests were all with the MacBook plugged in, I know it will not run when on battery. Further, I know it runs every hour, and I was would wait even more than an hour and verify that it does not start. I still they think there’s a bug there.

A few minutes later…

Well, I turned off the WAN port setting and the printer is still shared. The tipoff should have been that it says WAN, not LAN. Not sure how I missed that because there’s the same WAN setting for shared disks, and I specifically avoided that because I didn’t want my drive available from the Internet.

I think I had USB printing on the brain (still not sure why Apple only touts USB print sharing) and just checked it without thinking.

Thanks for pointing it out, Chris!

Also, Time Machine will not immediately start a backup when you wake from sleep… after waking from sleep it may take up to an hour for the next scheduled automatic backup to occur. Time Machine will also not perform automatic backups if you are running on battery power. So as long as you are running on AC power you should not need to select Back Up Now after waking from sleep (unless you want to immediately force a backup rather than waiting for the next one to occur on schedule.)