An irritating problem with AirPort

Hi,
I've read a few forums addressing this issue but none of the proposed solutions have worked for me.
I am currently running a MacBook Pro on Snow Leopard (10.6.4) and my internet connection has just died. I tried unplugging the router, turning on/off AirPort and rebooting, attempting to renew the DHCP lease, but the problem still remains - AirPort has self-assigned an IP address and I am unable to connect to the Internet.
Does anyone know of a solution to this problem? I would greatly appreciate your help.
MANY, MANY THANKS.

OK, so I would check whether your computer works with your router when it is using the Ethernet connection, and I would check whether it works wirelessly at other wireless hotspot locations other than your home.
If this were my problem, that would guide me in deciding whether it is a hardware problem with the wireless or maybe a configuration problem such as MAC authentication in the router preventing affiliation or incompatible wireless protocols.
That new piece of information now confuses me about what exactly is your network topology. So are you running BootCamp on this computer and you can connect to the internet in the Windows boot camp partition but can't connect to the internet in the Apple partition? Or vice versa? Or none of the above? What is "excellent?" Full bars in the signal strength indicators? What computers/OSs are getting onto the internet for you, and what ones aren't?

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