Airport adapter

Is there a way to check and see if the airport adapter in my MacBook is working properly or not? I've been experiencing some connection problem these couple of days.
Signal strength is fine...but it would just stop working from time to time...and sometimes it's very slow.
Should I just take it back to my apple dealer for them to take a look?
Patrick

All I can say about what it does is to use different DNS servers than the ones your ISP provides. My ISP provides DNS servers that get bogged down because so many people are using them at the same time. Certain times of the day saw peaks in slowdowns. It was suggested to me that I try using these other DNS servers and it speeded things up immediately. I have no real detailed insight into the technological explanation for this, except that which would be conjecture.
As for Interference Robustness: it depends on what types of electronic devices are near your machine when you're using it. I had an old cordless phone that would choke my Airport almost immediately when I would use it in front of the computer. Interference Robustness wasn't an option then. So I replaced the phone.
If you're getting interference near a microwave or whatever, use it. I haven't had to use it, myself, but that's not to say that others won't. It's relative to your environment.

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I just switched to a new DSL provider who sold me a wireless router and a USB adapter. They are both made by Westell. I have my laptop running wireless no problem as well as anohter machine runing ethernet fine. But I have an Imac running 10.3.2 that I need to use a USB "airport" adapter to connect.
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I have a small wireless network at home and two macs which connect to it and from there to the web. My first mac is a macbook and the second machine is a 1st generation MacPro. The Macpro until yesterday was connected via ethernet while the macbook via airport. Both machines were running smoothly. Today my local Apple dealer installed the airport card at my macpro, tested it at THEIR WLAN and I went home hoping that I'd get rid of ethernet cables.
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Sorry for the late reply. I had a bad experience with the Apple Store and the 'Genius' Bar where I live. However, in the end, I received my MacBook Pro back from repair and everything is working.
Like I said in my previous post, the first time the Wi-Fi broke, I was using Lion. The mother (Logic) board was replaced as well as the Wi-Fi card.
The second time it broke, I was using Mountain Lion. Booting up the Recovery partition and Snow Leopard (new install) did not solve the issue. The Apple Store confirmed that the Wi-Fi card was broken through various testing, which I observed.
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