Change base station password

ipad network utility not recognising airport base station password, have changed airport base station password (4th Gen Airport Extreme) ( Mac OS X 10.6.8 )
Any help would be appreciated

Hello edex67
thankyou for resonding
I am using a Airport Extreme (4th Gen) Airport software 7.6.1
I have changed the password twice, I feel it was successful as I changed the length of password and you can only see the number of dots in the password they changed correctly,now when using the network utility on either the ipad or the destop mac, neither will recognise my password I am using 10.6.8

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