Mavericks unable to connect to Time Capsule

Have just set up new (Late 2013) Retina MacBook Pro with Mavericks into existing TimeCapsule.
I turned on Time Machine and the initial backup went fine. Subsequent attempts to backup result in an error message of "There was an error connecting to the server "TimeCapsule" and backups are "delayed".
Other details:
-TimeCapsule appears under Shared in a Finder window but won't connect (message to check IP address or name or contact administrator).
-TimeCapsule and backups continue to work fine with both another MBP (mid '10) running Mavericks, and a MacBook (late '07) running Lion 10.7.5
-The sparsebundles exist for all three Macs because thay appear in Finder on these other Macs.
-Rebooting my new MBP solves the problem - for a while. Then at some time that doesn't seem to have rhyme or reason the TimeCapsule is unconnectable again.
A OSX 10.9 issue or something else?
Rob

I think I have isolated the issue, though not the cause, and have a workaround:
It seems to be a problem of the 2013 Retina MBP and Mavericks being unable to find/log on to the Time Capsule while asleep and that corrupting future attempts to do so.
I turned off "Enable Power Nap while plugged in to power adaptor" in System Preferences>Energy Saver. Now no more problems of being unable to find the Time Capsule after sleep - but no Power Napping feature either.
The Power Nap option is not available in Prefs on the 2010 MBP (also running Mavericks) so that is why the same OS does not have that problem on the older laptop.

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