Okay... My 5-1/2 year old Airport Extreme base station is in the garbage, the new one is hooked up, the frakking cable modem finally reset so that it could talk to both the Internet and the new Airport Extreme, and I even replaced an old Ethernet cable just for good measure.
I am, it seems, back on the air.
Oh, I still get to watch my TV screen go black at odd intervals for no apparent reason due to Comcast's antics, and sometimes when a show that has gone black suddenly comes back on my browser loses sight of the Internet, and the stupid HP all-in-one will happily wirelessly print as many test pages as the printer utility can send but steadfastly refuses to print a damn thing whenever I try to send any actual documents to it[1], and the lights on the cable modem are flickering in a totally different pattern from what I'd become used to over the past several years...
...but (at least until the next piece of hardware fries or cable gets cut) I am back on the air.
I think my second long paragraph lists enough annoyances for the time being, so I am going back to bed and will make a "real" post in the very near future.
[1] This particular all-in-one uses the same 802.11n standard as the Airport Extreme and my MacBook Pro, and the print on the box trumpeted the fact that it would make itself an integral part of my home WiFi network... but somewhere along the line I seem to have missed some fine print somewhere about how picky it would be about which services were actually available via WiFi vs. USB vs. Ethernet, and more recently I discovered it seems to be one of a tiny handful of models that HP did not bother producing an AirPrint driver for so I cannot send anything to it from compatible smartphones or tablets... C'mon, HP, stop being so annoying and make all the products you trumpet as being compatible with certain standards actually compatible, okay...?
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