Losing internet

I keep losing internet and have to diagnose with network diagnostics repeatedly, but there is no problem with my internet connection, please help!

Hi seneht,
I am connected via a wireless router to 1 mac and 2 pc's. I have not had any connectivity problems with the PC's going into and out of sleep mode. While, I have never had to restart my Mac to reconnect after sleep mode, it will OFTEN drop the signal and need to search again. This can be a simple as reloading page or shutting down browser or email apps and then reopening again and this works 100% of the time.
I have since changed some of my Energy Saver Preferences to get around this. I now set my computer to 'NEVER' sleep but of course allow my display to sleep. This is quite harmless to your Mac and many users prefer this rather than letting computer sleep. In using this option, I have not had any dropped connections, and when I wake the display all is still connected and can pick up where I left off...
Rick
iMac G5 iSight 20" - 30G iPOD in Slimming Black -   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   - HP Pav 15" WS and Toshiba Sat 17" WS LP's - Canon 20D & A620

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