Macbook airport keeps disconnecting

I have a first gen macbook pro retina running on 10.8.3. I have been having this issue of the wifi dropping in and out ever since I upgraded to Mountain Lion. It's really frustrating. I called apple and couldn't offer me any help since I'm no longer under warranty. I've noticed it happen no matter if its my internet at home or the internet at a local starbucks it never fails to drop out on me! I've tried removing the wifi networks and adding it back on....restarting the router, turning the airport on and off cures it for a second or two and then its back to disconnecting.... Any suggestions on how to fix this issue?
Thanks in advance!

Hey Jesselyn87,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities. The best way is to troubleshoot the issue with the Airport card but using the following article. It does say for Lion but the troubleshooting steps will be the same for Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8).
Troubleshooting Wi-Fi issues in OS X Lion and Mac OS X v10.6
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4628
Also this article is helpful to make sure it isn’t something that is just isolated in your user.
Isolating issues in Mac OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1388
Regards,
-Norm G.

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