Apple ME177LL/A Time Capsule 2TB (Renewed), White

Time Capsule arrived ahead of schedule. Outside carton had rain damage from having been left out in the rain by delivery service, but Apple's skin tight sealed inner packaging and excellent padding made it clear that the item suffered no damage. I bought it to replace an old Airport Extreme whose cooling fan had gradually slowed and hen stopped completely, and i needed the extra data storage space which the Time Capsule feature offers. It was recommended by our local independent Apple products expert. He said the factory refurbished items were just as good as the brand new ones, and the price was right. I easily switched out the cables from the old Airport Extreme to the New Time Capsule but was not able to figure out how to program the software to get it functioning. I called our local Apple guy back and he came over and got everything working fine. It required some tricking of the default functions of the installation software. He said that the instructions packaged with the product had never worked correctly in his experience, but he has found a way to trick the system into letting him hook it up in spite of the attempts by the software to prevent it. Despite having to pay him twice, first to diagnose the problem, and second, to install the solution, the new Time Capsule is now working great and our slow and spotty DSL line is finally working reasonably well. Furthermore, it is great to have our iMac desktop backing up my previously full iPad and iPod Touch through the iCloud and then to have the new Time Capsule in turn back up all three devices. Peace of mind!

I’m very happy to have purchased this item. I didn’t know what I was going to do when my other time machine when down. It didn’t look brand new, but it wasn’t in bad condition either. Setting it up was very easy and didn’t take much time at all. I’m excited because my back ups are happening again and everything is back up and running!

The Time Capsule works fine when it is finally set up with your computer and router. Not being a computer whiz I found it a lot harder to set up than the Apple claim "just click and go".

Hard Drive is bad and had to return it for a proper working device, hopefully one is in stock and not like this noisy loud non-working one.

A great router however the storage part will take some technical skills and understanding to be able to use it. Not a novice item.

I'm amazed at the performance of this wife router. I have it setup in a pretty central location and it performs better or equal to AC3200 routers and has the Time Capsule to boot! I like some of the features that some of the more advanced routes have these days, but the simplicity and quick setup of this unit was impressive. I no longer have dead spots in the house(2 level 3500 sq/ft) and have at least 2 bars when I am next door at my neighbors. My neighbor told me the other day that she finds her phone connected to my router quite often when she is at her house. That mean's her phone is seeing a stronger signal from my router than the one she has in the basement.

Absolutely perfect! There was not a single thing that would indicate it was refurbished. Everything was perfectly in order. Not even a bent corner of a page. And obviously the most important part was that the Time Capsule was great as well. The WiFi was so much faster than my old one and the backups were speedy as well. Totally satisfied.

Happy with the product! A little difficult to set up off the directions but a simple YouTube video helped.