Retrieving a back-up from Time Capsule

Hi there, I'm hoping someone out there can help me!
I completed my back-ups via a wireless connection from my Mac Pro G5. However, I've recently had to wipe my hard drive.
I have a complete back-up on my time capsule, however, the G5 only seems to recognise the time capsule wirelessly. When I try to connect the Time Capsule via ethernet, the G5 doesn't seem to recognise it.
I'm having to use migration assistant to move everything across wirelessly and it is taking forever!
Does anyone have any previous experience with this issue?
Thanks in advance, Andrew

Your backups are safe unless you manually erase the disk.
We still don't know how your TC is configured, so it may take some guesswork initially.
Open AirPort Utility and click Manual Setup
Click the Wireless tab below the icons
Write down all of the settings that you see on the Wireless page
Change Wireless Mode to Off
Update to save settings
You should now be able to connect using an ethernet cable from your computer to one of the LAN <-> ports on the TC.
Keep the ethernet cable connected after you have transferred your files.
Open AirPort Utility and click Manual Setup
Click the Wireless tab
Enter all the settings that you wrote down before
Update to save settings

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