Hey everybody,
even thought these are exciting times for macOS in the future I have a question/problem regarding the normal non-beta use of macOS. I have a MacBook Pro which I would like to backup to an AirPort Extreme. Now in the past I just did this wirelessly by connecting the AirPort to my router via Ethernet, but since this is always quite slow and I don‘t have a use anymore for the router functionality of the AirPort Extreme I wanted to switch to a wired setup to backup my MacBook. Therefore I got a Ethernet-to-USB-C adapter and connected the AirPort Extreme to my MacBook. Now since there had been older configurations on that AirPort I reset settings to the default ones but kept the old Backups on the drive. I quickly made my first backup this way, but was always quite confused as I couldn‘t clearly tell how the Mac was connecting to the AirPort as there is no such indication when connecting via Ethernet like seeing a drive show up on the Desktop or something, at least I couldn‘t tell. Is there a way to see this better possibly? Also while connected via Ethernet my MacBook was still connected to the Wifi network, but my internet connection didn‘t work anymore. I guess that this is because any internet activity is automatically routed to the Ethernet connection, which in the case of my AirPort Extreme wasn‘t actually connected to the internet. This meant that even though I was connected to my standard WiFi router I couldn‘t do anything internet related while the Ethernet cable was plugged in.
Now this all doesn‘t seem perfect, so I am wondering: Is there a better way to do this? Do I have to change some settings here and there and will be able to just see the AirPort Extreme disk as a backup drive which has no other use?
Thanks already for any help!
even thought these are exciting times for macOS in the future I have a question/problem regarding the normal non-beta use of macOS. I have a MacBook Pro which I would like to backup to an AirPort Extreme. Now in the past I just did this wirelessly by connecting the AirPort to my router via Ethernet, but since this is always quite slow and I don‘t have a use anymore for the router functionality of the AirPort Extreme I wanted to switch to a wired setup to backup my MacBook. Therefore I got a Ethernet-to-USB-C adapter and connected the AirPort Extreme to my MacBook. Now since there had been older configurations on that AirPort I reset settings to the default ones but kept the old Backups on the drive. I quickly made my first backup this way, but was always quite confused as I couldn‘t clearly tell how the Mac was connecting to the AirPort as there is no such indication when connecting via Ethernet like seeing a drive show up on the Desktop or something, at least I couldn‘t tell. Is there a way to see this better possibly? Also while connected via Ethernet my MacBook was still connected to the Wifi network, but my internet connection didn‘t work anymore. I guess that this is because any internet activity is automatically routed to the Ethernet connection, which in the case of my AirPort Extreme wasn‘t actually connected to the internet. This meant that even though I was connected to my standard WiFi router I couldn‘t do anything internet related while the Ethernet cable was plugged in.
Now this all doesn‘t seem perfect, so I am wondering: Is there a better way to do this? Do I have to change some settings here and there and will be able to just see the AirPort Extreme disk as a backup drive which has no other use?
Thanks already for any help!