Airport Extreme - Everyday it flicks over to orange light for 30 seconds!

Hello all,
I have an Airport Extreme (Airport Utility says version 7.4.2). It's been really reliable and fantastic up until mid-last week when it decided that at least once everyday the green light will turn orange, it will remain like that for about 30 seconds and then go green again. While the light is orange, any computers connected to it drop the internet/network connection. There's nothing wrong with the internet connection, as that remains working (tested by connected directly to the router via ethernet and wirelessly, on both times the connection remained while the Airport Extreme went from green, to orange, and back to green).
Any ideas? I think everything is up to date, and no settings have been changed.
Thanks in advance.
Chris

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I just wanted to say I read this article http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/769126-airport-extreme-connecting-remotely-wit hout-mobileme/
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