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Alrescha said:

This is/was called Bonjour Sleep Proxy.  In addition to the Time Capsule, it's supported by HomePods and Apple TVs.

Ah ha, yes this is it.

etrigan63 said:

All for less than $230 USD.

That's what I paid for my TC, which was also the router.

I had a quick look on the local electronics page, and even the low-end NASs are in this price range.

If Apple made a Wifi 6 TC I'd buy it in an instant and I think every other Mac user would too.

mknelson said:
I have set up a Time Machine backup using a Synology MR220ac router and a TP-Link Archer AX50 - using a USB connected hard drive.

I was looking at that one, as well as the Ubiquity Dream Machine. The UDM is clearly supposed to be a TC replacement, but it's $400 CAD and it doesn't have USB, just a microSD slot. You can get 1.5 TB microSD, so that would handle the bit of content I share, but would not be a TC replacement. I also looked at the Asus WiFi 7 kit, which is $200 CAD and has a USB.

mknelson said:

No, it's not that, I don't think so anyway. It's a feature of the router. It remembers the machines that were on the network that had sharing turned on. That way when you look for devices that are sharing files, they show up even if they are sleeping. Apple made a big deal of this when the TC came out, but then you never heard of it again.

Well then, this is the time to ask:

There are two features of my TC that I think I would like to keep.

One is the automatic TimeMachine support, but I understand many routers do that now?

The other is, and I don't know what the name is, the feature that pretends to be my Mac when my Mac is sleeping. This features allows, say, my AppleTV to "see" the content on my machine - movies and shows - and when I select it it wakes up my Mac.

Is there any brand-name 3rd party routers that offer both that I should be looking at?

avon b7 said:

I wonder how the Chinese will take that 

... they took that by raising their tariffs again.