Loose wireless internet whenever time machine starts backup

I am working on 24" 3.06 GHz iMac with 10.6.8 and over the last few months it seems almost everyday when my time machine begins it's backup I loose my internet connection.  I am running off of wireless through my time machine so I am not sure what is going on.  I have restarted it at least 5 times over the last week and it's getting rather old.   Is anyone else expereiensing issues like this or is mt time machine taking a crap on me? 

OK, I'm not sure what is going on there however you may want to run Software Update, what you are looking for is if  your TC is up-to-date. You can also check by opening Airport Utility and look at the firmware it is running, if more up-to-date firmware is available it will let you know.
You can also just do a reset too.

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    Title says it all. I lose internet connectivity (wireless) when time machine starts. If I turn airport on and off from the taskbar, it works and the backup completes itself.

    Me too!
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    Problem here too...it's driving me nuts! There must be a solution - but I have a feeling it'll need an airport/OS X update of some sort?

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    9/7/13 9:55:35.601 AM com.apple.backupd: Disk image already attached: /Volumes/Data/My Mac Pro (6).sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
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    9/7/13 9:58:02.483 AM mdworker: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
    9/7/13 9:58:02.484 AM mdworker: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
    9/7/13 9:58:02.485 AM mdworker: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
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    Thanks, Linc. Based on earlier posts around the same problem I assumed it was something to do with the computer. TC is up to date and restarting it seems to have corrected the problem, at least during the one TM backup that's gone since.
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