Normal delay to display past files via Finder interface in Time Machine?

I have a Time Capsule as router running my gigabit network and as a Time Machine backup device. When I want to retrieve a file from the past via the Finder interface to Time Machine, I hear a lot of noise from my Time Capsule (about 6 feet away), and more importantly, there are long delays (at least 10-15 seconds) in getting a response from the date scale on the right side of the screen (i.e. being able to click on a different date) and in displaying the contents of the folder at a new date in time.
Are such delays to be expected? Is there anything I can do to speed things up?

Well personally I've had basically no problems with Time Machine and the Time Capsule. But looking at these discussions there are certainly a lot of people with: endless preparing, endless backing up, endless finishing, hanging the system, knocking down internet when backing up, unable to mount, unable to find backup, unable to find TC, unable to copy, .........
Sure in some instances some of these can be worked around fairly easily, but I perceive some fairly serious flaws both in implementation and in documentation.
As I see it far more time is spent backing up than restoring, for me I'm not disturbed by the delays....

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What did you take the Mac to the genius for??
What did they do to it?
Did you have TM setup at defaults doing backups hourly?
Are you using a Time Capsule? Did you ever backup the time capsule??
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Archive is a bit slow.. and the backup is slightly less useful.
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Never work directly from the original backup .. work just from this copy so anything you do can be reversed or recovered.
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So Q14-17 here. http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
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Get professional help.. and this is where you need data recovery people who are familiar with apple TM backup format. Check local apple store or perhaps better local Apple independent repair business that are used to handling this kind of event.
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Surely at some point you pass your info to your accountant in the form of a computer backup file from your accounting package.
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Ordinarily when I need to access my photo files in the iPhoto library I control click to get the menu where I can go to "show package contents." Once inside that I can get access to the files.
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