Time capsule on - but can't see it

My Time Capsule is on with a green light and connected to my modem (by ethernet cable - WAN port to the modem), but I can see it on neither on my Mac Book, nor my PC. I set up up as my router with support from Apple: I would like to use it to back up files now. I'd previously been connected and run a back up using Time Machine from the portable - but Time capsule is no longer visible and rescan does not pick it up (even though the green light is on). Do I really have to reset it and reconfigure everytime I switch on my PC? It seems very time-consuming, but I'd really need to be able to do backups. Are there intrinsic problems with its use with PCs?

Sorry, I see there is a unanswered thread for exactly this issue. I'll call this answered, even though it isn't.

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