Has my Airport Extreme gone bad?

We had bad storms on Saturday that knocked out a lot of people's power. Mine was not but the next afternoon,and since then, I haven't been able to get online. The ISP (Mediacom) said everything is fine with my modem and that speeds are up to snuff. I checked the AEBS in airport utility and got couple errors. They were DNS needed and conflict with my beginning and ending IP addresses. I resolved these by putting in the OpenDNS IPs and putting some DHCP IPs in but still won't connect. The WiFi meter on macbook pro shows zero bars but when I click on the part to select which network to join it shows my network with full strength yet won't join.
Then I tried plugging Ethernet from my modem (Motorola surfboard SB4200) directly into my macbook pro and I keep getting a 'self-assigned IP address and won't connect to internet' message.
I've tried just about everything (powered everything on and off, different cords) but can't get 'et up and running.
Is my AEBS failing? Should I reset to factory default?
I need internet for part of my income so help is GREATLY needed.

+Then I tried plugging Ethernet from my modem (Motorola surfboard SB4200) directly into my macbook pro and I keep getting a 'self-assigned IP address and won't connect to internet' message+
This would suggest that the modem is not functioning correctly. If it were, you should have an internet connection assuming that the computer is working correctly.
If you verify that you can get an internet connection when your computer is connected directly to the modem....but then find that you cannot when you hook the AirPort Extreme up directly to the modem, then that would suggest a problem with the AirPort Extreme.
It won't make much sense to try other things until you can verify that your internet service is working correctly. I don't mean to place blame, but in my experience, the ISP always says their stuff is working perfectly. That may be, but you need to verify.
Be sure you reset the modem when you make any change in the device that is connected directly to the modem. I assume that you are doing this already since this is common practice with a cable modem.

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My home network has an Airport Extreme w/Time Capsule as the base and then an Airport Express and a second Airport Extreme to reach different areas of the house. Is there a way to use the second Airport Extreme for file storage on this network? Network is administered through an iMac running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2. Ideally, would like for the second Airport Extreme hard drive to appear on the list of devices in the Finder window.

Ok.. gottcha
The problem is network wise.. Yosemite is about equal to tin cans and string.. pathetic.
Here is my usual set of instructions to get anything working on Yosemite.
The best way to fix problems is a full factory reset of all the AE in the network.
Factory reset universal
Power off the AE.. ie pull the power cord or power off at the wall.. wait 10sec.. hold in the reset button.. be gentle.. power on again still holding in reset.. and keep holding it in for another 10sec. You may need some help as it is hard to both hold in reset and apply power. It will show success by rapidly blinking the front led. Release the reset.. and wait a couple of min for the AE to reset and come back with factory settings. If the front LED doesn’t blink rapidly you missed it and simply try again. The reset is fairly fragile in these.. press it so you feel it just click and no more.. I have seen people bend the lever or even break it. I use a toothpick as tool.
Then redo the setup from the computer with Yosemite.
1. Use very short names.. NOT APPLE RECOMMENDED names. No spaces and pure alphanumerics.
eg AEgen5 and AEwifi for basestation and wireless respectively.
Even better if the issue is more wireless use AE24ghz and AE5ghz with fixed channels as this also seems to help stop the nonsense.
2. Use all passwords that also comply but can be a bit longer. ie 8-20 characters mixed case and numbers.. no non-alphanumerics.
3. Ensure the AE always takes the same IP address.. this is not a problem for AE which is router.. it is a problem for AE which is bridged.. you will need to set static IP in the main router by dhcp reservations or use static IP in the AE which is tricky.
4. Check your share name on the computer is not changing.. make sure it also complies with the above.. short no spaces and pure alphanumeric..
5. Make sure IPv6 is set to link-local only in the computer. For example wireless open the network preferences, wireless and advanced / TCP/IP.. and fix the IPv6. to link-local only.
6. Now mount the disk of the second AE in finder... manually.
Use Go, Connect to Server and type in the AE ip address.
SMB://10.0.1.2
Where you will replace that address with the actual address. The network resource should be discovered and then it will request the password.. type that in and make sure you tick to save it in your keychain.
There is a lot more jiggery pokery you can try but the above is a good start.. if you find it still unreliable.. don't be surprised.
Do as much as you want of the above... not all of it is necessary.. only if you want it reliable.. or as reliable as Yosemite in its current incarnation can manage.
The most important thing is point 6.. mount the disk using direct IP address and not names.. dns in Yosemite is fatally flawed.
See http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/01/why-dns-in-os-x-10-10-is-broken-and-what-yo u-can-do-to-fix-it/

Has my M1424WR router "gone bad"? - and its replacement "bad" out of the box?

I've had Verizon FiOS service for about 3 years now, and have had very few problems with it. A few times I lost internet or TV during storms when lines came down somewhere, but that's about it.
The FiOS installer gave me an Actiontec M1424WR router and access port, with a coax connection to the outside box. I have a multi-room DVR setup (2 DVRs that can "see" each other, and a third read-only STB), so as I understand it I have to use the Actiontec (good bye to my old Linksys router used with my high speed cable service).
I have 4 computers attached directly to the router and up to 8-10 wireless devices (cell phones, tablets, wireless printer, gaming devices, streaming media players, etc.) on my home network. As such, I reset the router's SSID to the same one I had before, with 128-bit WEP security (a 16 char hex key). I also am "advanced" enough to know how to go through the advanced settings and start the DHCP address allocation to start at 192.168.1.100 to allow several of my devices (network storage drive, wireless printer, gaming systems, etc.) to maintain locally static IP addresses like 192.168.1.3 through 192.168.1.9 that reconnect when the router is reset or rebooted.
All this worked beautifully for about 3 years, until last week. The wireless network started dropping out - not just external internet access, but seeing other hosts in the home network - requiring a router reset to come back (or just a disable/re-enable of wireless service via the router settings at http://192.168.1.1). However, the "Wireless" light on the router remains green.
Even the wired internet connection (the computer hooked up with an Ethernet cable, right next to the router) would lose its internet connection for 5-10 seconds at a time before resuming. The multi-room DVR functionality would get spotty, too - until a reset, boxes couldn't see each other, playing back data from another box would be very slow or not come up at all.
After 4 goes of it with Verizon support via chat and phone (the experience of which I won't go into), which included a remote reset of my external access box by Verizon, I concluded that the router must have gone bad.
Last night, I went in person to a Verizon service station near me to swap the router, got back what they said was a "brand new" M1424WR, and installed it... To get the same problem, actually worse. The wireless drops out in about 5 minutes, the light is still green but no wireless hosts can ping each other or anything on the wider internet (like using Speedtest). I can use my wired internet fine (no hiccups there, yet) but my multi-room DVR is not 100%, two boxes can see the other two but one of the DVRs can only see itself.
It seems unlikely but I have to believe this is still a problem with the router box itself, and I just got yet another flaky one back, right? Nothing in my home network has changed (no new devices, services added, firmware updates, etc.) from last Tuesday when it was fine.
Any other ideas for me to try?
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To do this I had to remove/disable ALL my wireless devices and computers, then add them back in one by one... It was frustrating because I'd forgotten that printer was actually connected wirelessly, I was used to thinking of it as connected via an ethernet cable since I "knew" that's what the printer supported. I even unplugged my 2.4 GHz wireless phone base, which I actually believed to be the culprit. I only remembered the printer's wireless adapter after everything else was removed.
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HT4262 I'm an installer customer has an airport extreme upstairs and airport express downstairs in office approx. 210 ft. away. trying to get a wireless signal to a sony Bluray to stream netflix about 30 ft. from express. signal inconsistent with lots of

Hi' y'all.trying to avoid running cat5e/rj11 hardwire from upstairs to Bluray for consistent streaming of Netflix. someone mentioned possibly reconfiguring the Airport Express downstairs to make the signal stronger for steaming. Client has Macbook Pro next to Express and it seems to work fine.good signal..........
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Vid

A CAT5e or CAT6 cable would provide the performance and capability that you need.
Next choice would be a pair of Ethernet powerline adapters to send an "Ethernet" signal over the existing powerlines in the home. This would be "iffy" in that you will not know how well it will work until you try.
Dead last choice would be wireless. Even under ideal conditions.....(line-of-sight with no obstructions in the signal path)....wireless is good to only about 150 feet or so. Even then, the signal will be weak and borderline as far as its useability and reliability.
Add in 4-5 walls and maybe a ceiling in the signal path, and the effective capability of wireless will be reduced down to maybe 40-50 feet in a normal home.

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I am not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to setting this stuff up. I was hooking the printer up to the Airport Extreme because the set-up instructions said to. When the software engineer was here, he could not get the wireless on the printer to find the Airport Extreme. The kid is pretty sharp but was under a lot of pressure to get done so that he and my Son could get on the road. He wasn't expecting to get into the hassles of setting this up.
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Airport Extreme card does not see any networks...help!

I have a home network that is working fine - 2 linksys routers with WDS set up... it all works great - an Ibook g4 running 10.3 and has an Airport Extreme card connects flawlessly everyday. As does an old G4 powerbook with an old airport card.
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When I turn airport "on" it never sees our network. And it doesn't see my neighbors' networks, either, which are also always visible.
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Users on the "main" network would not be able to "see" any devices on your "private" network and vice versa.
I use the two router set up all the time at hotels that only provide a wireless signal. The first Express "joins" the wireless network and feeds an Ethernet signal to the second AirPort which is configured to "create a wireless network" in router mode.
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