Airport Extreme worked well, now poorly

After working well for 3 years, internet download via the Airport Extreme is very slow, and the physical area covered by Wi-Fi is greatly reduced.
The problem was first noticed about 2 weeks ago.  Symptoms are my MacBook Pro has difficulty connecting and staying connected to the Airport Extreme. When it does connect, downloads are very, very slow.  My iPad Mini has the same problem.   Again this happened suddenly.  Prior to that the Airport Extreme worked very well since obtaining it 3 years ago.
Any suggestions of what to do next would be much appreciated.

I would suggest that you start by performing a complete power recycle of your networking hardware to see if this resolves the issue. Check out the following AirPort User tip for details. Please post back your results.

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