Cannot connect to Base Station using Airport Utility

I purchased the AEBS over a month ago and as soon as I connected it to the modem, I was online. I followed the directions to setup a network and connected a printer. Everything worked smoothly, however, sometime shortly therafter, the printer communication stopped working and I could not check the settings of the base station using the airport utility. The airport utility could not see the Base Station whatsoever. The internet worked though. I had to do a hard reset on the AEBS and start from scratch. Everything worked again, but only for a short period of time. The airport utility would not see the BS again. So, what do I do to fix the problem.

Well, during setup, it asks to connect an ethernet cable from the PC to the LAN <--> port on the AE. So, that's part of the standard setup and I believe is how the PC communicates to the AE. The only wireless device I use on the network is my Droid phone. I plan on connecting another computer whenever I get a new one. I'll look again to make sure that I did it right when I get home tonight.

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With my prior macbook and same time capsule, etc if i had problems connecting to the internet I would run network diagnostics to help out. This included clicking on the airport utility ---> base station --> restart. This worked most of the time.
Bottom line, is there something I am missing in not being able to restart the wi-fi remotely? ]
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You are likely forgetting a step.
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Hi,
This reply is for anyone who got this far but couldn't get further, becuase their setup was similiar and the above didn't work.
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I just bought a new Airport Extreme. I hooked it up to my internet, got it connected to my computer, did all the set up, and it still wouldn't go online. So I though, "Maybe I entered some info wrong or something like that." So I read the manual and did a hard reset along with re-installing the software...
_and now when I open "Airport Utility" it wont even pick up the base station!_ I had it earlier but now it wont even connect. I've tried moving the base away from the wall and into the middle of the room, I've reset it, and hit the "refresh" button a million times.
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J

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