Airport loses wireless connection have to quit Airport restart

Today my lovely Macbook's airport has quit, giving me the "no server found" page. No problem with router or network connection. After fiddling around with restarting browser, operating system, I finally found that by turning off airport and nearly immediately clicking on. It just did it again. Drives me crazy

Clarification: System is Verizon DSL.

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