Computer not connecting to network after a good nites sleep

Question

My computer will frequently (once every other day) not automatticallly reconnect to my network after waking from sleep in the morning. I have all the security options enabled, tried changing the interference robustness on and off and it seems to make no diff, reduced the network range to reduce interference from the 3 other wlan networks around, and changed the channels around. It didnt do it in my house. I realized that when I put the cpu to sleep at night, I leave iTunes running. Well, in a dorm, there is alot of shared music going. I tried quitting iTunes, putting the computer to sleep, and waking it up and it reconnects every time. when i leave itunes on and repeat the test, I have to connect manually by using the drop down menu (which i hate) and sometimes it will say "error joining network" a few times before connecting. I havent thouroughly tested this, but is it possible that the sharing feature of itunes is somehow interfering w/ the airport connection? Maybe it is looking for shared networks before the network connects and prevents it connecting somehow? If this is the case, I dont mind quitting itunes every night as long as I dont have to screw with the internet connection every morning.

Answer 1

I know you don't have any replies posted here, but has anyone given you or have you found the answer?
We have the same problem with our airport extreme. My son listens to iTunes at night too. Sometimes the next morning with or without the iTunes running at night - suddenly my network is gone. I have to go back in and re set some stuff. Our AE is not even 2 mos old and it really has been problematic.
When we first got the AE set up this strange network appeared. We didn't recognize it from anywhere and it wasn't the AE's address. Every once in awhile it shows up. There are times when we think it might be our neighbor's wireless connection, but who knows?
Then the other night my son was on AIM and MIM chatting when suddenly the connection was dropped. He tried to sign back on but everything was gone. A strange new network name appeared (this time it looks like the AE created a new network and name based on it's address) and we could not sign back on to the internet. This all happened in the space of 2-3 minutes. All my efforts and re-sets have failed. My husband uses the AE as a router and plugs his PC into the LAN port to connect to the internet (of course the wireless portion then no longer functions thereafter). Well, now he can not even sign onto the internet.
I have put at least 6+ hours into trying to figure this out. i guess I'll have to give up and try Apple support since it is still basically new. Last time I called Apple Support, it sure seemed like I was able to guide/help myself more than the joker csr I happened to dial into.
Anyone else have this problem? Did you eventually fiz it?
Cheryl