IPod Touch iOS 5 Wifi Issues

I have a 3rd generation iPod Touch that I just upgraded to iOS 5.0.1 2 days ago.
My iPod has been working fine on my home wifi network since I originally hooked it up and since the upgrade I have nothing but trouble.
I spoke with apple yesterday and they told me that theres nothing they can do about it.
I understand I can't roll back to iOS 4 but has anyone tried to troubleshoot this?
Here is what I have done with no success:
1. Unplugging my airport extreme and modem... let them sit a bit and then plug back in. (Fail)
2. Forget the network on my iPod and try to reconnect (Fail)
3. Reset my iPod (Fail)
4. Hard reboot of the iPod (Fail)
5. reset Network settings
Now I have intermittent connectivity using the wifi on my iPod and it takes forever to bring up a webpage or I receive the error message of Unable to join network even though my wifi signal indicator is at full strength.
Any other suggestions or tips out there?
Jake

  If its anything  like mine you have to briefly turn on SSID broadcasting  let the ipod connect once and its ok  after that and you can turn off broadcasting the SSID .  It has always done this even before IOS 5 .  It's fine after this unless you have to reset your ipod etc ..  then you will have to repeat the above procedure.  Yes you should not have to do this but Apple is less than impressive in their software implementation in these devices..

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