TS1589 My amber light keeps blinking on my airport extreme

The utility tells me there is no internet connection but I know there is because my old router connects. What do I do next?

Sorry for your frustration but I bet we can get this to work.
1. You can't connect your computer to the Extreme using the USB port. That is only intended for use with a printer, external hard drives, or powered USB hubs. So just go ahead and unplug that for now.
2. We should be able to connect to the Extreme using WiFi. On your Mac laptop choose the Extreme as your WiFi access point by clicking on your Wireless icon on the top right. Once you are connected via wireless then run Airport Utility and you should then be able to setup the Extreme. You could also connect to the Extreme temporarily by running a Ethernet cable to one of the Ethernet ports of the Extreme and then to your computer.
3. I'm going to cover the basics which usually fix this problem - just to make sure this is all done correctly.:
1. Make sure you have plugged the Ethernet cable from the Comcast modem to the WAN port of the Extreme. The other 3 ports are switching ports and it won't work correctly if it is plugged into one of those ports.
2. After verifying the previous has been done correctly - power off both the modem and the Extreme, Then, power on the modem and let it go through its startup till it is working correctly. Then, power on the Extreme. This may very well solve the blinking amber issue because what I have found is that cable modems are assigned their IP addresses by what equipment is connected to them - if your old Linksys router works fines when connected but the Extreme doesn't and the modem hasn't been reset then that should fix it.
Let me know what happens and if that doesn't work we can try something else. If it doesn't work please post what error message Airport Utility is telling you - that will help as well.

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Hello popadave. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
A persistent, flashing amber light indicates that any of the several potential conditions may require your attention:
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(ref: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305101)
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