Time Capsule external HD slow after joining an existing network.

Hi all,
I have recently moved and had to reconfigure my TC accordingly. Previously my TC was connected to the internet and an external HD which hosted my iTunes music (amongst other files). After moving home, I was required to join the existing wifi so changed the configuration of my TC. Now I am unable to play music from the external HD as the performance is so slow. I'm also assuming backups will have lousy performance too as I havent yet seen evidence that a backup has successfully concluded.
The house has a netgear DGN2000 connected to ADSL. Internet access from my mac seems OK. I'm using Remote with Client Association in the configuration, adding the TC's MAC address to the netgear router.
Any ideas why disk performance has gone down so much ? I can discount iTunes as previewing photos in Finder from the same HD is also painfully so.

Hello Shogododo. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
The house has a netgear DGN2000 connected to ADSL. Internet access from my mac seems OK. I'm using Remote with Client Association in the configuration, adding the TC's MAC address to the netgear router.
I don't think this Netgear feature is supported by the TC. How do you have the TC configured? That is do you have it so that the option "Wireless Mode = Join a wireless network" is selected?

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