Airport range about 2 meters after power outage

Apologies if this issue has been posted previously.
I live in a country where we experience frequent power outages. I have noticed that after almost every outage the range of my Airport Extreme goes down to about 2 meters. Restarting both computer and airport has no effect. The only way I have found to get it working normally again is to get my computer to within a few feet and change the channel using the Airport Utility. It doesn't seem to matter which channel I select, just anything different to what is was previously set to. Once the airport has restarted, everything works fine again. The problem is, my wife's technical expertise is not very high so if I'm not there she has to stop work.
Has anybody experienced this, and if so is there a fix?

David Thompson5 wrote:
I live in a country where we experience frequent power outages. I have noticed that after almost every outage the range of my Airport Extreme goes down to about 2 meters. Restarting both computer and airport has no effect. The only way I have found to get it working normally again is to get my computer to within a few feet and change the channel using the Airport Utility. It doesn't seem to matter which channel I select, just anything different to what is was previously set to. Once the airport has restarted, everything works fine again. The problem is, my wife's technical expertise is not very high so if I'm not there she has to stop work.
Has anybody experienced this, and if so is there a fix?
That does sound strange. If you don't have your AirPort Extreme channel setting to "Automatic", you might try that.
You might also consider investing in a UPS unit for your AirPort unit.

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