Airport Losing signal/disconnecting

Hi,
I'm currently still having problems with my airport disconnecting and losing signal. This is really driving me nuts, is there any solution to this? As it was working fine till i updated it.
If anyone can help that would be greatly appreciated.

I had the same problem when updating to 10.5.6, i fixed it with a clean install. Before you do that you can try to isolate the problem further with these steps:
- What was that last thing you did before this problem started?
- Do you have the same problem no matter what network/type of router you try connecting to?
Just to make sure its not hardware, boot to your Leopard install disk and try connecting to the network from the airport pane. If you have the same problem when booted to the install disk its pointing towards a hardware issue. I would head for the nearest Apple store and make them fix it.
If you don´t have the same problem when booted to the install disk this might be cause by a software problem.
- Make sure everything is up to date. OS X, firmware for routers etc etc
- In System Preferences>Network, make sure the service order is set so that Airport is on top
- Is there any devices that can cause interference? cordless phones, microwaves and so on.
- Try changing channels on your router.
- Reset your router and set it up again. If your using a Airport base station go to Manual Set up and choose File from the menu bar, click Save a Copy as. This will allow you to export the base station settings, if you need to get this settings back you can simply import them.
- Rename /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and restart your machine. This will remove any network settings you have made on your machine
- Create new network settings
If your not able to solve or isolate your problem with these steps i would suggest you post the Console logs here as there are a lot of the ppl on the forum that prbly can help you more after reading those.
Best o´luck

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