Problems with new ISP, and base station now disappeared

I had been happily using AX for my wireless connection for a year and a half with no problems (well, apart from the alleged wireless printer issue...grrr). Now I've moved and have had to change my broadband/ISP provider. I now have an ADSL router (BT voyager 210). I can connect by ethernet cable but no joy with my AX, despite a solid green light, strong signal and recognised network. I spent two hours on the phone to a helpdesk in India today and managed to reconfigure some of my base station settings, but now my base station has disappeared from the network list completely and the AX just flashes amber. I've tried resetting it with the old paperclip routine but nothing. I'm going nuts turning it on and off and trying to figure it out... any ideas?
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Hi melsteel,
reset to factory settings using the instructions from here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108044
After you've done that, choose your reconfigured AEBS from the dropdown menu, run setup assistant, then go into Airport Admin in the Utilities menu and set up some security
Create new network names, get rid of the old stuff, just start all over, you'll be glad you did

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