Airport Utility can not connect to Time Casule in Yosemite

HELLO EVERYONE! I have a Macbook Pro 17 mid 2009 and recently i have it upgraded to Yosemite.Airport Utility doesn't detect the TIME CAPSULE despite the computer is connected to the network through Wi-Fi.Time Machine can not detect the back up disk as well . Please any sugestions,than you.

Did you perform the complete power cycle that I suggested? That will often help with issues like this.
If you did and it did not help....then the next step may or may not help....or may make matters worse.....so you might want to wait for the next Yosemite update to see there is a "fix" for the common issue that you are reporting.
In my case, the issue was resolved by resetting the Time Capsule back to factory default settings and then setting it up again....using a simple device name for the Time Capsule and a simple wireless network name for the network.
The names are short....no more than 12 characters, use only letters and numbers and contain no blank spaces or special characters in the name.
Once the network was back up and running, I had to reset Time Machine to get backups going again to the "new" Time Capsule.

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Please open a command window and ping it.. ping by name and by IP address.
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Thank you SO MUCH Tesserax for taking the time to help!
I powered everything down, slowly powered everything else up from the modem to the airport then the computer. I then reset the airport & rescaned it through utilities. I set up a new network & voila! wireless up & running again.
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3528704?tstart=0
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kfc360 wrote:
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