Time capsule not working as wireless base station suddenly

I have been using my time capsule as base station for wireless network in our house for some time and suddenly network is not working for all wireless devices in the house.  Desktop imac is connected to internet via ethernet cable through time capsule and works fine so I know problem is not with cable modem or signal coming to house.  Laptops appear to be connected to my network fine but when attempting to connect any site through safari or firefox I just get the spinning wheel thingy. 

Check that the laptops are getting DNS and router (gateway) from the TC.. if not reset it and do the setup again.
What OS are you actually running on the laptops.. this problem started with Lion and is much worse in ML.. it is actually not a Snow Leopard issue which you list as the OS.

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    Your first statement and last statement are in conflict.
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    Please clarify what is the problem.

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    Read C12 and C17
    http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

  • 1st generation time capsule won't act as base station.

    Yesterday I bought a used 1st generation Time Capsule (TC).  I expected that it would operate as a "base station" and replace my Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS) (in addition to it's primary function of acting as a repository for Time Machine back-ups).
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