AirPort Extreme/Router/Arris Cable Modem

I have Cable internet, and I'm using an Arris Cable Modem. I got a router a while back, and it was working great between my PC and PowerBookG4, when one day it stopped working. I eventually through the router out. Yesterday, I tried connecting the Arris Cable Modem wire to my AirPort Extreme. I turned on my Powerbook, and in the little AirPort icon I had 4 bars, so I assumed I had a connection. I opened up Safari, but I couldn't get anything. I tried restarting, reconnecting, and anything else I figured would effect the connection. The lights on the AirPort express, when I connect the wire, are...1st one is blinking, but slowly, 2nd is steady, 3rd blinks. I'm wondering if theres something preventing me from using the Cable Modem w/ Airport Express.
- Thanks in advance.

Connect the cable modem to the Airport Base Station's WAN port (that's the port labelled with the "circle of dots" icon). Then pull both the modem and the Airport Base Station from power for at least five minutes. Then plug the modem into power and wait a minute. Then plug the Base Station into power and wait a minute. Then try internet access via the Base Station again.
That's my only bit of advice. No other suggestions if that fails to work.

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