Can I delay my Mac from connecting to wifi?

I am having trouble with my Mac mini not locating the correct WIFI network during start up.  I have a Mac Mini and a time capsule connected to the same power supply and when they both start up at the same time the Mac mini does not see the time capsules wifi network and it does not connect to it's wifi signal.  Is there a way to delay the Mac mini by 5 or 10 seconds to looking for a wifi signal?  I just need to give the time capsule a few second head start to create the wifi signal so when the mac mini boots up it's already avaliable.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreaciated.
thanks,
ZS

The following, by default will wait 15 seconds for the wireless interface en1 to become active. If you need longer, place a trailing -t 30 at the end of the command. A successful return is 0. see scutil(8).
usr/sbin/scutil -w State:/Network/Interface/en1/IPv4

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