Time Capsule no longer backs up since I've moved

Hi all,
this is the second time that this has happened. My TimeCapsule was working fine, with no issues, until I boxed it up because I was moving to another apartment. I set it up on the other end, and re-established my wireless network (still with the same name) just fine, but the TimeCapsule will no longer perform backups because it says that it can't find the backup drive!
First it will say that :"there was a problem with the network username or password" and it tells me to go into the Preferences and to "select the network backup disc and re-enter the correct username and password." Which I do.
From here System Preferences will try to find the disc when I click "select disc," and one of two things will happen: it will find the disc, I enter the password, ask it to backup and it fails, OR I get the spinning beachball forever and System Preferences stops responding and I have to force quit.
I don't get it. Literally the ONLY thing that is different is the fact that I moved 16 blocks, and I changed the wi-fi password. Everything else is identical to how it was before! Why can't it perform a backup, and why does my SysPref freeze up half the time!?
Any insight is appreciated.

Have you checked your Time machine settings in System Preferences?
This link may be of use:
http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
Ciao.

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