Airport connection drops about once a day..

is the problem in my macbook or in my airport?? when i go to look at the airport, the green light is still on. help would be appreciated.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hola -
If you go to your System Preferences/Network/Airport and check the box "Show Airport status in menu bar" you'll be able to see the strength of the signal in your top menu. 4 bars will equal a strong signal. Monitor this throughout the day ...if it's working fine for most of the time then I'd suspect the wireless router as the problem. Also, if the signal is very weak (1-2 bars) then you may indeed lose your connections at times.

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