Time capsule /time machine still gets lost despite being plugged in via Wan cable

Some days it works and others it don't.... why oh why do my Imac and time capsule fail to work together despite being wired together with the LAN cable.I have tried many options of forgetting /switching out the capsule and reintroducing it again. It may work for a while then up comes the message saying that the machine cannot be found! Urrgh!  My system is an early 2009 Imac with osx 10.8.2 the time capsule is a 2tb 2nd generation.  %0% of my hard drive is still available. No other faults are evident. Approx 1.65 tb remain available on the time machine that has been in situ since Oct 2011. Any ideas?
Ps.
Silly question possibly, but is there any real difference between time capsule and time machine?
I imagine the time machine to be the "guts" of the Time Capsule. Correct??
Thanks.
M C

Don't blame you.. your experience is reflected in many many posts here.. and they multiplied when Mountain Lion came out.. which rather than fixing the still unresolved issues on Lion exacerbated them.. Apple meanwhile has used the ostrich solution.. which exposes some other parts. Or maybe waves them in your face.
We can clear up a few issues..
Time Machine is software on your computer.. it has nothing whatever to do with Time Capsule. A hardware that consists of an apple airport extreme router and a hard disk in a merged box.. with a couple of bit of ticky tacky to hold it together. It is a possible backup location for TM backups.. amongst many.
A Gen2 TC cannot be 2TB.. unless you replaced the disk.. please report the actual model number which is on the rubber foot.. A1xxx
At this point the issue is clearly a network bug. What where and why we are not sure.. nothing is a cure or work around.
There are crude methods.. a time clock electrical switch that shuts off the TC at midnight before it goes pumkin and awakens it a few min later.. or several hours.. not unheard of solution to adsl problems.. routers however should not need this treatment.
One very interesting post I have tracked.. had no problem with the TC as long as they used a USB drive plugged in.. the internal disk was the issue..
Some things help.
Mountain Lion does like the hard disk with space in the name.. but I think it is good to ensure all the names follow correct network standards.. ie short.. no spaces.. pure alphanumeric.
Is the TC in router or bridge mode?
Is the ML install clean or upgrade?
Are you using 5.6 utility
How to load 5.6 into ML.
1. Download 5.6 for Lion.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Click to open the dmg but do not attempt to install the pkg.. it won't work anyway.
2. Download and install unpkg.
http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/
Run unpkg on the desktop.. it is very simple.. drag the AirPortUtility56.pkg file over to unpkg.. and it will create a new directory of the same name on the desktop.. drill down.. applications utilities .. there lo and behold is Airport utility 5.6 .. drag it to your main utilities directory or just run it from current location.
You cannot uninstall 6.1 so don't try.. and you cannot or should not run them both at the same time.. so just ignore the toyland version.. the plastic hammer.. and start using 5.6.. a real tool.

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