Time Capsule Undiscoverable and flashing amber lights?

Hi,
I have had my time capsule connected via ethernet to a wireless router on an unsecured wifi network.
Yesterday all of a sudden the time capsule became undiscoverable in the middle of a backup and the amber light is flashing and airport utility cant find it.
Can anybody help?

Last resort is a factory default reset.
Power down the Time Capsule for 30 minutes
Hold in the reset button and keep holding it in while you plug the power back in on the Time Capsule
Keep holding the reset button until the amber light blinks more quickly, hold a few more seconds and then release
Try again. If you try this a few times and still cannot connect, you'll need to take the TC in to the Apple store to have them take a look.

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Time Capsule keeps on flashing amber light.

I've been using my TC for a year, in wifi, without problems.
I've changed apartment now, went and turned my modem on, Mac on, everything was connected working properly and ready to go (as usual).
Connected my TC to the power cable, and it started up with solid amber light as usual.
Then instead of connecting with my wifi network (as it did in my old house with old wifi) and turning solid green, it started flashing amber and keeps on doing it.
It just won't "go online", and it says in the menu bar "Time Machine Not Configured", and I won't find the disk if I open the menu for TC preferences.
If I open the Airport Utility, no disk there either and if I tell it to search for disks it does but it won't find anything.
The light just keeps on flashing amber and the disk isn't there, anywhere to be found, or not configured, basically.
But computer and wifi network do work properly, so it's not that either of them is having any problem.
It's the TC itself, like it can't manage to connect to THIS new wifi network, which is also from the same provider as in my old apartment same modem too.
There's no difference at all, I don't know I thought TC would automatically connect to this new wifi and backup on it like it did with the old one?
Maybe not, I hope someone can give me a heads up, the manual isn't helping much.
I have obv. disconnected, connected again, restarted...everything.
Starts up properly but then doesn't go solid green, it never goes online.
I don't know if I should hit the reset button on the back of the TC, like reset it to factory settings? D:
Or maybe just try and re-configure it, but if so, how and where?
It won't let me do that in time machine preferences, or in airport utility.
It just won't find any disk, and I need to backup asap.
I hope I haven't lost all of my previous backups, too.
Only thing left, which might help, but didn't change things much: at the beginning I went to time machine pref. through the menu bar and the disk was there with my name and all, but it said that there was a problem or something, the rest is as stated above.
So I thought I could forget/delete that disk, and maybe re-add it?
Which is not a reset I just deleted it from the list of disks in the pref. or airport utility.
Now as said there's no disk in the list anymore, I wouldn't know what to do.
I deleted it 'cause even if it was there I was still stuck, it wouldn't go online/green, it wouldn't connect, it wouldn't backup, not even disconnecting it and so on.
What should I do?
Hope someone can help, thank you.
If it can help, this is what I see now, not sure what to do. "Not configured" in menu bar, no disk in the TM menu list, nothing found in the airport utility.

You need to find out where the issue is.. it is most likely not the TC.. Mountain Lion has known networking issues.. Since you crossed out the IP your modem is getting, I cannot see if it is a private or public address.
You need to do all these things.. in order.
1. Install 5.6 utility in Mountain Lion. v6 is useless.
How to load 5.6 into ML.
1. Download 5.6 for Lion.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Click to open the dmg but do not attempt to install the pkg.. it won't work anyway.
2. Download and install unpkg.
http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/
Run unpkg on the desktop.. it is very simple.. drag the AirPortUtility56.pkg file over to unpkg.. and it will create a new directory of the same name on the desktop.. drill down.. applications utilities .. there lo and behold is Airport utility 5.6 .. drag it to your main utilities directory or just run it from current location.
You cannot uninstall 6.1 so don't try.. and you cannot or should not run them both at the same time.. so just ignore the toyland version.. the plastic hammer.. and start using 5.6.. a real tool
2. Read this so you know how to factory reset.. it is different to what you are doing. You hold the reset before you power on..
Please read the info.
There are three different kinds of reset. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3728
A reboot is not a reset.. you simply power down and power up again.
3. Reset TM as per A4 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
4. I suggest this.. start with the TC completely disconnected from network..
Turn off wireless in the computer. Plug the TC LAN port to the computer ethernet port.
Do a factory reset on the TC. Open Airport utility 5.6, and setup the TC..
Give the TC a name of TC.
Give the hard disk a different name.. TCdata
You can ignore the wireless for now.. but if you want call 2.4ghz TC24ghz and use a different name for 5ghz ie TC5ghz.
5. Changing names is important.. you are ignoring it. but it is important to make things look anew.
6. If TM after a reset cannot find the disk.. you have a problem in Mountain Lion install on the computer.. clean install ML.

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did not have airport card, so got refurb airport card (802.11g)
I need to verify which AirPort card (the original or the Extreme) you installed in your iBook. The 2001 iBook models were AirPort ready, meaning they can only work with the original AirPort card. (ref: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107908)
or WPA2 ( more secure). Go with WPA2
WPA2 would be the best choice, except if you installed the original AirPort card which doesn't support WPA2. However, it will work with WPA if it meets certain requirements.
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- Configure IPv6: Automatically or Off
Proxies tab
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To do the setup, plug it in via ethernet.. do not try to setup over wireless.. Once it is setup you can plug the TC into the network and use wireless.
Most likely you will use the TC in bridge to an existing modem router.. but we cannot help as you have no details of the network setup.
I do recommend in the setup of the TC you use SMB type names.. that means, short, no spaces pure alphanumeric.. as later Mac OS do have issues with long names, spaces and that apple shocker, the apostrophe.

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