Airport express-can't find base station

I've tried everything I can think of-I've reset my ae several times and still utility is not finding the base station-help!

I am having the exact same thing. I saw it once, and made some setting changes, now it's gone. I bought the bloody thing because although my modem has Upnp the mac claimed it wasn't working, so I though ok (back to my mac - only been trying to get it running for about a year: zero success) I'll get a base station, that supports NAT for BTMM, but the one time I did access the base station its error was double NAT, so the mac and the base station seem to be reporting two different things regarding the modem. It is driving me ballistic!!!!

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