My Mac can no longer find my Time Capsule or my home network.

Hello, having had no problems for the first few months I can no longer get online. My Mac cannot find my network (but can find all of the other networks on my street) and cannot find the Time Capsule. The Time Capsule itself has a green light so I assume is working fine. My daughter knocked the ethernet cable from the the Time Capsule around the time it stopped working - could this be related? We also moved our cordless phone near to the Time Capsule around the same time - could this be the problem? Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
Message was edited by: marius1

Smokerz, thanks for the help. A couple of very basic questions to clarify (I am clueless about these things).
1. When you say power down the modem you mean unplug it? (I currently get my cable TV and phone through it as well).
2. How do I go about changing the channel on the router? (which I assume is the Time Capsule?).
Apologies for my ignorance and thanks for any help.

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My Time capsule, that I bought back of last year in April has been working flawlessly, until a couple of days ago. Now, it con no longer be found on the network.
It is connected via an Ethernet cable and is in another room (it's connected to my iMac, running OS X 10.5 through a router that is working and letting everything else on my network see everything else. ).
I have reset my Time Capsule and the solid green light comes on.
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I have an ethernet client on the network that is completely invisible.
Click on the Other WiFi Devices (wrongly named.. it should say other devices).
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Then the AU sees the ethernet client and none of the wireless clients.. brilliant stuff eh??
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Message was edited by: Mad Clan

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Welcome to the discussions.
You provide very litte information, which leaves us guessing. Please try to be as elaborate as possible in your answers.
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