If for some reason you want to turn off your Airport Extreme Card from the command line, simply type:
sudo ifconfig en1 down
Where en1 is the interface for your Airport Extreme Card. en0 is usually Ethernet, and en1 is usually the Airport Extrewme card. To bring it back up, just type:
sudo ifconfig en1 up
Enjoy!
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