IPod Touch connects to wi-fi intermittently

My iPod touch has begun acting weirdly when connecting to already known networks.
It will connect and then disconnect intermittently without me doing anything.
What is wrong and what is the solution?

LetsGoMets1 wrote:
Read some of these posts and you'll see that _LOT_S of people are having this issue. Yes, some "could" be router issues, but far too many people are having wifi issues.
There are not "lots". Most of the Wifi issues reported here turn out to be caused by the router. Very few Wifi threads remain unresolved...
Here's me repeating myself...
+There are millions of iPods... all the same hardware... all the same OS... and a few go bad. It happens... hardware breaks or software getting corrupted.+
+There are hundreds of different brands of routers multiplied by the various firmware revisions multiplied by the various user settings multiplied by the various ISPs.... a few of those will go bad too.+

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