Macbook airport issues! Help!

I have a macbook and last year I was having trouble with the airport wireless. It would lose connection and I would have to restart the Linksys router to make the internet work again. I got fed up with it and decided to buy the apple airport extreme router thinking that would fix my problem. I was wrong. Every other computer in the house connects to the router just fine, but my macbook loses the connection every time it goes into sleep mode. When i type in my password to get it out of sleep, the airport bars on my macbook book show no bars being filled... but the apple router is available to be chosen. When I choose my network.. it continuously shows the message :error joining network:. Once i try to reconnect about 50 times it will finally connect. But if the computer goes to sleep it starts all over. Any ideas??

Hi Carie,
I'm having a similar problem although not quite as bad as you from what it sounds. An easy way to reestablish a connection is to click the airport icon and then "turn off airport." You may have to type your admin password. You can then select "turn on airport" and, for me, a connection is made. Not perfect but somewhat quick.
Good luck.
Clint

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