Airport not detecting networks

I am trying to find my LAN with my MacPro but it is not able to find them. I was online last night using Aiport (at a slow speed, but still using it).
Right now I am using a PC Laptop that is finding and connecting to any WLAN available.
I have tried to shutdown, restart, turn off airport but nothing remedys the problem.
What can I do?

Hi,
I had the same problem with my old Airport base station (graphite model). Very hard to connect to it, after turning my MacBook on or after waking up from sleep mode.
All problems disappeared when I started using an Airport Express access point and unplug the old (apparently the fact that it was in range still caused problems).
I take it the more recent wifi cards such as the one in the MacBook's don't handle the quite old Airport too well.
Cheers,
Bas.

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