Time Machine through Belkin Wirelles Router

I have connected my External HDD to MacbookPro13" thro USB and clicked Time machine. It asked to permission to format and i did "yes" to proceed with back-up. After back up complete, I connected the hard drive to the USB port in my BelkinN+ wireless router, and tried to browse the files in it through shared section using my macbookpro. But I can't access the hard drive or back up in it over wireless. (the same hard drive before formating and back up, i used to browse through shared section using the routers USB port). How can I back up this hard drive/ browse the files in it?

Sorry, but unless the router meets this condition, you can't use it for Time Machine backups: +*If your backup disk is on a network, the network server must use Apple File Protocol (AFP) file sharing, and both your computer, and the networked backup disk, should have Mac OS X 10.5.6 or later.+* See: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/15139.html
In addition, backups done to a local disk are stored differently than those done over a network. Just why that is, I don't know, but surely Apple wouldn't do it differently without a good reason. What that means, of course, is that you cannot start backups directly-attached via USB or FireWire and then continue over a network, or vice-versa.

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