Airport won't connect to network

Hi there. I'm having heaps of trouble creating and maintaining my wifi network. I will set up the network the usual way, Preferences> Ethernet/Airport> Internet sharing etc. All is fine and dandy, I can now connect to my iMac's wifi network from my phone. But wait! Now the internet is not working on my computer! So I go back to system preferences, connect to Ethernet, now my iMac's internet connection is working again, phew. But wait! Now I can't connect to my wifi network anymore! So back to sytem preferences to connect to wifi network. But wait! It's not even there anymore! Cool. Try typing in network name and password, doesn't find it! Repeat process a gazillion times, no wifi for olivehere. Please halp! I'm at my wits end. I'm using a 4-5 year old iMac with Snow Leopard, 10.6.8 with a crappy router without wifi. Thanks a million

it's actually working now, don't know how but it is.
still though, airport iMac shows 40 as peak connection in AirTrafficControl and right beside it the Macbook shows a peak of 55-56
wow.

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