1st gen Touch w/3.0 now wireless is intermittant

Hello all,
A side note. I've actually been on these discussion boards for years however today when I logged on to Apple Discussions a message said that my former name and info had been deleted "due to security reasons". I have no idea what the problem was as I never was informed by Apple. So I now start over with a new alias and avatar.
Anyway...
I have had a generation one Touch for over a year and wireless has always worked well...albeit a bit slow at times. I paid for and downloaded v. 3.0 and all was fine, including my enjoyment of the additional 3.0 features.
About three weeks ago I began having intermittant problems with connecting to my wireless network. We had some bad weather locally and I thought it might have been related. Then all seemed well again until the past week, which connection to my wireless network has been intermittant at best. Yesterday it would not work at all. Tried all the typical 'fixes', restarting wireless router and Touch, etc. Touch would not accept my wireless password yesterday at all. Very frustrating. I turned it off for the day and night. Today I turned it on and it is working.
Is this a problem with 3.0? If so has Apple attempted to fix the problem? How do we notify Apple of these issues? Thanks.

There have been more than the usual problems with 3.0 and WiFi. There are certain iPods that seem to be "broken" by the update. Problems like you experienced seem to be rather common, however most get corrected with a network reset on the touch and logging back into the network.
I'm sure Apple was sent enough bug reports on 3.0 and WiFi. They did issue a couple of new technical documents. Supposedly version 3.1 will bring some relief. It is out in test now.
If you want to file a bug report, you can do it at http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipodtouch.html

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