OK so the setting up was trivial and works beautifully; the printer goes to sleep when unused and awakens when it gets a job. Wireless performs flawlessly and the best part is that nobody, except Marcello and I - who performed the job - even knows that the wireless network is now 11n capable, as the utility remembers which networks you had before you installet the TC and allows you to conveniently rename the network to one of the old names: think as if you unmounted the old AP and replaced it with the new one, all without ever stopping service. Cool !

This now means that anybody stumbling on our network could use the printer, but also that we now have a half tera fileserver for the Macs (the PCs, too?) which of course we'll never use, because it's unprotected

But TM is giving me some reason to worry: I left my MBP at the office the other day, hoping it would back up overnight, but when I came in the following morning it had only achieved about 35% of the total (about 96 gigs to back up - I know, I know). So I tried removing the snapshot of the VM from the backup (how many copies do I need? there's one already on my Home Storage Facility) but alas, this restarts the whole task from scratch, and leaving it on in the background is no good - progression is way too slow for the first big backup.

Solution? Don't quite know yet. Leaving the MBP at work for a full weekend is unthinkable (yeah, I know it sounds kind of sick, but this is one thing I just cannot do) so I should try another night job, perhaps connecting it to the TC by cable for higher transfer speeds...

The other thing I don't like is the fact that the default setting is for the TM task to simply continue to gobble up space with incremental backups until the disk is full - must remember the get the full tera drive when I re-do the home network. maybe more attentive perusal of manuals will enlighten me...