Time Capsule switches on, but not visible in AirPort Utility

I have just moved house.
New ADSL modem/router, no problem setting up network. Trying to 'extend' network with Time Capsule (and wireless backing up) as I had in the previous house without a problem. When I use AirPort Utility to scan for wireless devices (eg AirPorts), with the TC switched on, it doesnt appear in AirPort Utility.
The light is flashing amber, but it alweays did that.

Philippe Platon1 wrote:
My Time Capsule is visible in the finder windows as a drive, I am connected to it, and it is my link to Internet, it is visible from my wife's iMac in the next room, but it won't appear in the Airport utility (I can see only the two Air Port Extreme that are in other parts of the house for remote speakers).
If you can temporarily connect your computer to the Time Capsule with an Ethernet cable, you should be able to see it in AirPort Utility.
In fact I want to access my TC configuration in order to get back the password needed for my wife to connect to it.
Until you can resolve the AirPort Utility issue, you may be able to recover that password with the Keychain Access utility.

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My Time Capsule is visible in the finder windows as a drive, I am connected to it, and it is my link to Internet, it is visible from my wife's iMac in the next room, but it won't appear in the Airport utility (I can see only the two Air Port Extreme that are in other parts of the house for remote speakers).
All this is done within the same network as far as I know, so I don't see where the problem comes from.
In fact I want to access my TC configuration in order to get back the password needed for my wife to connect to it.

Philippe Platon1 wrote:
My Time Capsule is visible in the finder windows as a drive, I am connected to it, and it is my link to Internet, it is visible from my wife's iMac in the next room, but it won't appear in the Airport utility (I can see only the two Air Port Extreme that are in other parts of the house for remote speakers).
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OK. That should be a third or fourth generation Extreme, plenty new enough. (The most recent OS X and iOS versions of AirPort Utility cannot configure the original Extremes, but they can handle my mid-2007 second generation Extreme.)
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TC #1 is the network's router. Its WAN port talks to the cable modem. One of its LAN ports connects to TC #2's WAN port. TC #2 is in Bridge mode. Both TCs are configured to "Create A Wireless Network" and both wireless networks have the same name etc etc. WiFi works well throughout the house.
TC #1 is backing up a couple of the computers, TC #2 is backing up the others. This has all been working for a couple of months.
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Tonight I started to investigate. I'm on my main machine, an iMac running Mavericks, and I notice that TC #2's icon in the Finder under shared looks like the Time Capsule, but TC #1's icon is an old computer monitor. I can click on the icon for both and connect and see the disks.
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Maverick has changed a number of things.. which can mess things up.
Firstly reboot the network.. so everything off.. restart the modem.. wait 2min.. restart the TC#1.. wait 2min, restart TC#2.. wait 2min.. then restart the clients.
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CS J

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On your Lion MacBook, click anywhere on the open desktop so that the Finder menus are displayed at the top of the screen.
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hi
i think you mean AU can't find your +time capsule+. *time machine* is the name for apple's backup solution.
have you been able to successfully backup your machine(s) to your TC prior to installing 10.6 ?
hold on - your profile in the initial post says you're on 10.6.1 but in your subsequent post it is 10.4 ? which is it, then ?
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