G5 suddenly will not connect to interent via Airport base station.

Question

All of a sudden today, my G5 stopped connecting to the internet via my Airport base station. Usually when this happens, I just go downstairs and unplug the base station, wait 30 seconds, and then restart it. This almost always worked until today. I tried reseting my DSL hub (2wire using SBC) and after a few tries this worked only briefly before my G5 once again stopped recognizing my internet connection. My eMac downstairs, which is not attached wirelessly, connects just fine. When I open the network preferences on my G5, I have a yellow light by the Airport extreme option. I trashed airport prefs and I also trashed Yamipod, which I had just installed and was using right around the time when the G5 stopped connected. I restarted, and verified and repaired disk perms to no avail. Any help?

Answer 1

All of a sudden today, my G5 stopped connecting to
the internet via my Airport base station. Usually
when this happens, I just go downstairs and unplug
the base station, wait 30 seconds, and then restart
it. [...]
If you had to perform this kind of restart of your
AEBS frequently, then this may be caused by one of
these two frequent reasons:
- you run a buggy firmware version on your AEBS
(5.6 and 5.7 have this kind of behaviour);
- you have a new neighbour using a wireless network
on a channel much too near from your own.
If you'd like to check if you may be in one of these
easy to solve cases, just indicate which firmware version
is on your AEBS (AirPort Admin Utility shows it), and
tell us if you have neighbours using wireless network
(iStumbler shows this).
dan