"Connection Failed" error on Time Capsule

I bought my Time Machine about 6 months ago, and it worked perfectly! About 2 months ago I moved across town and set it up again in my new home without a problem. One day when I get home and open my MacBook Pro, I noticed that the Time Machine feature wasn't backing up automatically, as usual. I have wireless Internet connection, but cannot access any of my files or back them up. I have reset it several times, reconfigured the settings, I even called customer support (about a month ago) and they could not figure it out.
When I try to set it as my back-up drive, it gives me the following error (and also in the screen capture below):
The server “WC-TIME-CAPSULE.local” may not exist or it is unavailable at this time. Check the server name or IP address, check your network connection, and then try again.
How can I solve this issue? ABSOLUTELY ALL my files are backed up in my Time Capsule. PLEASE HELP!!!
Thanks in advance,
DJ Walter Capote
Miami, FL
MacBook Pro
Running MAC OS X
Version 10.6.8
Processor 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3
TIme Capsule
802.11n (4th Generation)
Version 7.6.1
Message was edited by: DJ Walter Capote

Reset to factory and do the setup again..
Otherwise you do have one of the other issues.. but you are connecting from SL.. not Lion??
There was a couple of work arounds mentioned in one of the threads.. but really you should ring apple and get them to fix it.. If you look at the Log in the TC this is being caused by some AFP server drop out issue..
Try reading this thread from the end backwards.. as some of the ideas at the beginning were wrong or development of understanding was primitive at first.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3526741?start=105&tstart=0
But for me it is utterly consistent.. flash a TC to 7.6 or later.. server interrupted messages begin maybe a day later but then continually.. flash back to 7.5.2 they stop.. I have the TC bridged though.. not the main router.. I have several ideas of what is causing the issue..
If you want to be more scientific, try opening the arp table in the Mac and see if you can ping the TC, by name and IP address. Give me the result of that.. if the issues continue.

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