No signal from Airport Express

I have had my little Airport Express for 4 years and have loved it. I have had to unplug it and plug it back in (and the cable too) perhaps a half a dozen times over the years when I would find myself with signal but no connection. It was working fine last night. Today I am getting no signal and only a flashing yellow light. I have 1) unplugg it and the ethernet connection several times in several ways. 2) let it sit unplugged until it completly cooled down before trying the above, and 3) tried a hard reset.
End result, only flashing yellow light and no signal.
I am working from my cable modem plugged directly into my laptop now.
Interestingly my old desktop eMac also will not turn on. They were both plugged into the same surge protector, as is a clock that I found blinking, and my cable modem, which is fine. The eMac has occasionally done this before. Given enough time, it starts up again, though so far not yet today.
Any ideas? Is my airport Express dead?

Unfortunately, the solid amber light is likely a symptom that the Express has experienced an internal component failure.
Try a Factory Default Reset as follows to see if you can unlock the device.
Power down the Express for at least 15-20 minutes
Hold in the reset button and keep holding it in for another 10-12 seconds while you plug the Express back in to power
Release the reset button
If you have a slow, blinking amber light after 40-45 seconds, the Express may be OK. If the light stays solid amber after a several tries on the default reset, I'm afraid that it will need to be replaced.

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Unfortunately, you must have missed the following clear statement in the product information for the AirPort Express regarding extending a network.
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http://www.apple.com/airport-express/

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Ok, thanks for clarifying your network requirements with the AXns.
For both AXns to be successful in extending the AEBSn's wireless network they need to be within a 25+ dB SNR range of that AEBSn. SNR, or Signal to Noise Ratio, is the base station's Signal strength (in dBm) - Noise level (in dBm). Two primary reasons for low SNR values is Wi-Fi interference and obstacles (like walls/ceilings, etc.) that prevent a signal from passing through.
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I have a network that uses an Airport Extreme as a base station downstairs in a corner of the house and an Airport Express upstairs at the opposite end of the house. The Express was purchased to improve signal and range.
I get enough bandwidth to open/send emails upstairs and render webpages (albeit slowly) but I cannot stream any media. The upstairs signals on my iPad or iPhone is low.
I've been looking at some range extenders (like Netgear) but wanted to see if Apple people had a better idea. I want something easy to set up that is "fire and forget." Hence, I am skeptical about Netgear (or Linksys) for that matter.

First off, neither Netgear nor Linksys products would be compatible with Apple's "extend a wireless network" feature.
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Most users tend to locate the extending device much too far away from the main router for it to work effectively.
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