Why would AOL webmail suddenly start to drop & reconnect every 2 minutes

using v7.0.1, IE8 doesn't display this behavior, so it's apparently not an AOL thing
almost like clockwork, every 2 minutes, message flashes "reloading" followed by "you've got mail" and return to webmail starting page

I forgot to mention another odd part of this issue:
In the scant five minutes of uptime I get after rebooting the router, I'm seeing only about a quarter of the speed I usually see when transferring files between my wired MacBook and my WiFi MacBook. Usually, downloading a file from the wired computer to my wireless computer goes at about 8 MBps, but in the uptime I get now, it caps out at 2 MBps.

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Feb 9 13:23:33 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
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Feb 9 13:27:11 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 13:27:13 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
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Feb 9 13:33:53 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
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Feb 9 13:35:46 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 13:35:48 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
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Feb 9 13:42:26 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 13:42:28 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
Feb 9 13:46:03 5 Disconnected from network.
Feb 9 13:46:06 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 13:46:08 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
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Feb 9 13:49:46 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 13:49:48 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
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Feb 9 13:53:39 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 13:53:42 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
Feb 9 13:57:18 5 Disconnected from network.
Feb 9 13:57:21 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 13:57:23 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
Feb 9 14:00:58 5 Disconnected from network.
Feb 9 14:01:01 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 14:01:03 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
Feb 9 14:04:38 5 Disconnected from network.
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Feb 9 14:04:43 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
Feb 9 14:09:23 5 Disconnected from network.
Feb 9 14:09:26 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 14:09:28 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
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Feb 9 14:15:47 5 Disconnected from network.
Feb 9 14:15:51 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 14:15:53 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
Feb 9 14:19:27 5 Disconnected from network.
Feb 9 14:19:30 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 14:19:32 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
Feb 9 14:24:42 5 Disconnected from network.
Feb 9 14:24:45 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 14:24:48 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
Feb 9 14:28:22 5 Disconnected from network.
Feb 9 14:28:25 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 14:28:28 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
Feb 9 14:32:22 5 Disconnected from network.
Feb 9 14:32:25 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 14:32:28 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
Feb 9 14:36:02 5 Disconnected from network.
Feb 9 14:36:05 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 14:36:07 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
Feb 9 14:42:57 5 Disconnected from network.
Feb 9 14:43:00 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 14:43:02 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
Feb 9 14:47:12 5 Disconnected from network.
Feb 9 14:47:15 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 14:47:17 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
Feb 9 15:06:42 5 Disconnected from network.
Feb 9 15:06:45 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 15:06:47 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
Feb 9 15:10:22 5 Disconnected from network.
Feb 9 15:10:25 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 15:10:28 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
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Feb 9 15:15:57 5 Disconnected from network.
Feb 9 15:16:00 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 15:16:02 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
Feb 9 15:19:37 5 Disconnected from network.
Feb 9 15:19:41 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48
Feb 9 15:19:43 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
Feb 9 15:23:17 5 Disconnected from network.
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Feb 9 15:23:23 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
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Feb 9 15:27:03 5 Internet Configuration leased -- host <192.168.11.2/255.255.255.0> gateway <192.168.11.1> dns <192.168.11.1> wins lease <86400> domain
Feb 9 15:31:12 5 Disconnected from network.
Feb 9 15:31:16 5 Joined BSS 00:1d:73:8e:a9:48

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klikka wrote:
The wireless network works fine on my three other PC's (with windows 7) plus my girlfriends laptop (with windowds 7). I have Mac OS X 10.6.7 on my MBA and still the same problem. I even had a friend on visit today which have a MBP with OS X 10.6.6, he also experienced dropping out of my wifi, but not on the same way as me on the MBA.
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Those are not the newest: http://eu.msi.com/index.php?func=nbdriver&maincat_no=135&prod_no=1998
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Message was edited by: lauriespieker

All right, I followed your instructions...I had to click Verify Disk first because Repair Disk was grayed out. The problem is, I got an error that says:
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I'm trying to again right now...now in the Disk Utility window it says:
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Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Invalid node structure
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.
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