Connection slow/stopping - having to turn Airport connection off and on

Over the past day or two I've had a problem with my internet connection. I was finding it was fine at first but then would slow down and/or stop (even though the bars on my Wifi connection were full) and only turning my Airport connection off and back on would fix it, but only temporarily.
I tried all kinds of solutions, mostly to do with reconfiguring my Time Capsule with different channels, different security settings, different DNS servers, etc.
None worked, and then I was reading a discussion about aluminium iMacs and how they only receive a connection through certain parts of their cases. It occured to me that I had cleaned my desk a couple of days ago and moved my computer further back on the desk. I've pulled it back again and this seems to have fixed the problem.
My room is quite far from the base station so it's clearly quite sensitive with regard to positioning.
Hope that helps anyone having a similar problem.

Hi
I also get this problem. I have just bought an Intel-based 21'' Mac desktop and the internet worked fine for the first 2 weeks but ever since has been on and off for 20 minutes or less at a time.
Suddenly, the computer either loses the wi-fi signal or simply does not process it. Even if I go to Airport and attempt to connect to my network, the connection just times out. I believe that it may just be a simple connection problem but I don't believe this is satisfactory given that my girlfriend spent more than £1,000 on the machine and I never have any problems with the internet on my £300 Dell laptop, even when in exactly the same location.
Does anyone have any solutions? We have tried tech support but they have been hopeless!
Thanks
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