Airport wireless connectivity cutting out

For the last couple of months the Airport icon indicates it is still connected and that the signal is full strength, but pages simply do not load.  I have to physically turn the Airport off and then back on for pages to load.  This happens every 2-5 minutes.  My Airport/ wireless functionality has worked perfectly up until this point.
Not an ISP issue as other devices in the house work just fine (TV, MacBook, iPad, iPhones, work laptop, etc).  Just the iMac with this issue.
From memory, started getting a Citrix error message coming up just prior to the Airport issue, so I deleted Citrix from my system (as didn't think I needed it??) ... could the two things be connected?
Have plugged in an ethernet cable to complete all the recent security updates that were pending, but updates haven't made any difference.  Ethernet cable great, but not ideal so not a long term solution.
Any thoughts out there pretty please?

This is really weird - it's the exact same thing with mine !!!
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4382345
Wonder if it's a bug in the software / firmware ?!?

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