It Rains In Triplicate

I have a reasonably old airport extreme base station in the house, which sits in the living room. I had the great idea of moving it to the basement to replace the netgear router (not modem, just the router) that I suspect is getting flakey.

So, after a quick factory reset and putting it through the motions of connecting to the modem, including the power cycling and battery yanking required, it won’t get a DHCP address. I suspect comcast is using MAC address provisioning, so I restored the network to what it was and factory reset the airport and redid the setup so that it would act as the wireless bridge again.

Except it no longer gets a DHCP address from the router.

To be clear, every other piece of equipment, wireless and otherwise still gets an IP address from the DHCP server on the router.

Further, if I set a manual IP address on the airport extreme, it works fine. The only thing not working is that the airport extreme cannot obtain a DHCP address.

Back to square one, I still have a (mostly) working airport and I still have a flakey cable router.

I hate computers.