Configuring Time Capsule's sleep mode

Hi everyone,
I have a time capsule 1T, which I use to back up my files and also as an external hard drive for my music and photos. The problem is that it often goes to sleep during a slide presentation of my photos, or after it played a song of more than 5 minutes... It would be nice to configure it to go to sleep only after 30 minutes or so... Does anyone know if it is possible to set when the time capsule should go to sleep?
Thanks!

Hi again,
I have a time capsule 1T, which I use to back up my business files and also as an external hard drive for my data. The problem is that it goes to sleep. Same problem here!
My MacBook is connected to the TC by WiFi but I have the same problem with a Windows 7 computer with LAN connection.
In the TC configure software there is not an option to configure the sleep mode.
I have searched everywhere on the internet for a solution... No luck! I found a lot of complains about this problem but no solution.
I have software which automatically completes tasks for my business. Every morning I get an error because it cannot reach the TC within a certain amount of time and therefore cannot save the files because the TC looks down.
I called Apple. They advised me to put de guest account on the TC on for read and write. They said it would be faster to reach the HD afterwards, because the HD stays more busy that way. I tried that but there is not much difference.
I know I can put an USB external HD on my Macbook but that way I have to leave my MacBook powered on. And than I am stuck with a time capsule which I bought for nothing! What a waist of money.
*I hope someone from Apple is reading this and comes up with a solution!* I think the solution would probably be a firmware update...
Please help!
Thanks!
Tjaka

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Message was edited by: Bob Timmons

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