Time Capsule, no time machine, need to transfer pc data

Greetings,
I have a macbook pro accessing a time capsule wirelessly.
Time capsule being used as wifi network, and wireless hard drive. I am not using the "time machine" backup settings.
I have a 1Tb usb seagate external hard drive formatted for my pc.  I would like to use this drive to transfer pc files to my new mac world.
If I plug in the pc drive to my macbook the drive shows up on the desktop and i'm able to copy the files to the time capsule wirelessly. however this takes days, and there is a chance the files might corrupt.
If  I plug in the pc usb drive directly to the time cap, it does not recognize it. 
How am I suppose to transfer 3Tb of pc files to this wireless time cap drive? 
How do you switch files from pc to mac without it being impossible?
This is a terrible situation.  Must I use my tiny 2gb usb thumb drive to transfer 3 TB piece by piece?  Some of my files are huge.  the total is even larger, 3 tb  etc...
any help would be great. the guy at the store said i could just plug in the pc drive to time cap, it would recognize it and i could dump the files. doesn't seem so. 
is there a special way to do this?

ok i did that.
it states the following
ethernet adapter wireless network connection 2:
connection-specific DNS suffix : home
ip address.......... ##.####.##
subnet mask...... ###.###.##
default gateway...... ####.###.##
all ### are number combinations IP address numbers etc...
You have ### out the numbers.. so I am unable to tell you anything.. I need the numbers.. they are essential but giving them to me will not expose your computer.
Here are mine.
You see they are private addresses.. no body can link to them.. they are not routable on the internet.
Any IP in the private address range is non-routable..
What you need to do is put the IP of the gateway into Windows Explorer (not internet explorer although it is the same thing in the end).
\\gatewayIP
With a TC it is by default, 10.0.1.1 but if you have bridged it then it is something else.. find out what and plug it in.
If what you are seeing is ipv6 addresses please turn off ipv6 in the PC. Do not use it unless it is necessary.. it adds a big layer of confusion.
i still don't see any drive on the network, and can't figure out how i should do so
Method is above.
does it matter if the drive is formatted for a mac sinc it's in TC?
Nope,, it is a network share via SMB.. the format is totally irrelevant.
i don't even know if my pc has the right drivers for the ethernet i can't figure it out. the green light is on when i plug it in, so there's that.
Did you turn off wireless? Do you have internet?
If yes, to both questions, the ethernet is working fine.
In the airport utility. Go to the file sharing and change the workgroup and guest access.. as I suggested already.. did you do that?? Change to SMB names?
Here is the Mac version utility screenshot but the PC version is nearly the same.
Please give the main summary page as a screenshot.

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