Airdrop stopped working in Mountain Lion when installed Airport Extreme

Afternoon all from a damp and windy Scotland.
Until last week I used Airdrop to transfer photos from my mid 2012 MBP to my wife's 2010 Macbook both with Mountain Lion with no problems and great speed.
Now we cannot. Neither Mac seems to notify the other that there is anything being sent.
Last week brought two changes and I can't work out which is most likely. Firstly the update to 10.8.2 which both have. Secondly I installed a refurb 5th generation Airport Extreme. All other services, including wireless TM backups, seem to be working as expected.
Any ideas? Thanks.

Question resolved by time. Must have been some sort of system glitch. All working fine now with no action on my part.

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