Hardware of software fault?

I have a really interesting problem with this MBP and so do many others with the intel processors.
The problem is this,
Whenever this MBP connects wirelessly to anything (internet, peer to peer, LAN, WAN) it will lock up when ever it feels like it.
so far i have tried to lower the internal temperature, and the external temperature
Also had the MBP to pieces to to examine for burns/defects in the hardware all checked out fine. (on a seperate issue after only 10 months the inside of this computer was absolutely clogged with all kinds of matter and the over heating stopped as a result)
all hardware tests have come back clear everything from verify disk to tech tools pro and even the apple hardware test have all come back clean.
oh and the console is pretty much useless here to.
i have spent hours testing this laptop and the os has been reinsatlled and rolled back several times and no matter which version of osx is installed it will still lock up when ever it connects wirelessly.
which brings me on to the intersting point, when booted into microsoft windows vista, this MBP will work absolutely fine with no lockups and 100% functionallity, infact the only limitation is windows it self.
Could it be that apple havent quite got their software right?
or are microsoft just better?
any feedback here would be greatly appreciated
Thank you

technicalwizard wrote:
I have a really interesting problem with this MBP and so do many others with the intel processors.
The problem is this,
Whenever this MBP connects wirelessly to anything (internet, peer to peer, LAN, WAN) it will lock up when ever it feels like it.
so far i have tried to lower the internal temperature, and the external temperature
Also had the MBP to pieces to to examine for burns/defects in the hardware all checked out fine. (on a seperate issue after only 10 months the inside of this computer was absolutely clogged with all kinds of matter and the over heating stopped as a result)
all hardware tests have come back clear everything from verify disk to tech tools pro and even the apple hardware test have all come back clean.
oh and the console is pretty much useless here to.
i have spent hours testing this laptop and the os has been reinsatlled and rolled back several times and no matter which version of osx is installed it will still lock up when ever it connects wirelessly.
which brings me on to the intersting point, when booted into microsoft windows vista, this MBP will work absolutely fine with no lockups and 100% functionallity, infact the only limitation is windows it self.
Could it be that apple havent quite got their software right?
or are microsoft just better?
any feedback here would be greatly appreciated
Thank you
Do you want help with your wifi connection or are you asking for comments regarding whether Microsoft or Apple software is better?
If the latter, I'll leave it to others to discuss. If the former, post details of your connection, router model, security scheme, etc so that we can help you troubleshoot.

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