My iPad (1st gen) loses Wi-Fi connection after sleep.

If my iPad is allowed to go into "sleep" mode on its own, the connection to my Wi-Fi network is lost. Going into the iPad settings and toggling Wi-Fi off and back o n will restore the connection. I don't have to re-enter the password for the connection to be restored. This doesn't happen with any other devices on my wireless network. Any suggestions on how I can resolve this?

I was having the same problem and could only get it back either by restarting iPad, clearing the network or restarting the Router. I eventually found this useful post on the Princeton Universty website:
http://www.net.princeton.edu/apple-ios/ipad-iphoneos32-dhcp-workaround.html
It appears the problem is caused if you have any applications which uses Push notifications such as Mail, Contacts, Games Centre etc. Apparently in IOS 4.3, when the iPad goes into sleep mode it should drop the wifi connection to clear the DHCP cache. If you have notifications on, it doesn't drop the connection on sleep so when it wakes up again, either the DHCP cache entry is out of date or something else is out of step with the router.
This only happened after an abortive attempt to upgrade to IOS 5.0.1 (see https://discussions.apple.com/message/16778153#16778153) and a downgrade to IOS 4.3 which I think is where Apple introduced the Games Centre with notifications turned on by default.

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