HT3728 My airport shows a blinking yellow light? Can't connect to the internet.

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Whenever major network changes are made.. eg.
My husband switched out TV cable boxes and had to unplug something.
Then you need to reset the AE back to factory and redo the setup from scratch.. it is near impossible to fix when the network has been altered apart from that.
BTW.. what exactly did hubby unplug??
How to reset.
Unplug the power to the Extreme..
Hold in reset and keep holding it on while you plug power back in.. get hubby to help. You need 3arms to do it.
Count to 10 slowly all the while waiting for the front LED to flash rapidly.. about double the speed of the normal slow flash.. release the reset.. and wait a couple of min for the Extreme to reboot.. then run through the setup again.
If your current setup has a router, then setup in bridge. I suspect this is what it is otherwise your other stuff would not work.
If you still have trouble.. what is the modem make and model??

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