Airport Utility not finding TC

Hi,
Have been happily using a TC to wirelessly back-up MacBook Air for 2 years - however, since MacBook was in Apple Hospital for new screen it has failed to reconnect to the TC disk (although this was still showing in Airport Utility). After a couple of attempts at reconnection, the TC has now disappeared from Airport Utility window and all attempts to solve this (restarting wireless router, restarting TC) have not helped.
Original connection was TC by ethernet to router - this has worked fine in past but suggestions for better arrangement welcomed!

I have the same problem with my (late 2009) time capsule. Airport Utility only on occasion will find my TC when connecting wirelessly, but always will when connected via ethernet. I called Apple support and they had me change the wireless channel that the TC was broadcasting on and select "use interference robustness", which helps when there is interference, but (technically) slows wireless speeds.
They assumed that I had too much interference which kept if from connecting. Although that seemed to help for a while, same problems still happens until I reboot my Macbook. I only have one neighbor next to my house so I don't know how I could have wireless interference, especially when I'm 3 feet from the TC and it "can't be found".
It's pretty obvious to me that Airport Utility is the problem but kinda hard to prove I guess.
If you think that you do have wireless interference, those settings may help you. One way to tell what is broadcast where you are is to option-click on the wireless icon on the menubar, and as you mouse over your/other airport networks a box will appear that tells you the network type, GHZ, channel, etc. If there are signals on your same channel, ghz, then you should change yours.

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