My Mac desktop has intermittent Wifi connectivity

I've had a problem with wifi connectivity for over a year now, and have had the desktop repaired once already, with no improvement. Upgrade to Mavericks has made no difference.
The computer always thinks that I have a connection to my network. In system preferences it says 'connected' but I don't actually have a connection to the internet, for example. Streaming to the Apple TV stops, or the website stops loading.
However when I go to Network Preferences and click 'assist me' then I don't have all 6 lights in green, but maybe 2-3 green and the rest yellow. I go through the reconnection, get 6 green lights, and all is back to normal.
I have many, many other things connected to this wifi network (1 desktop, 2 laptops, 2 phones, 2 ipads, 1 apple TV, one speaker) and everything else has no problems, so it is clearly not the network.
Any tips, short of throwing the desktop away and buying a new one? My nearest Apple Store is in Paris (I live in Brussels) so no Genius bar for me. Plus no car.

Thanks, but as it's an intermittent problem, and only my desktop is having it - everything else doesn't disconnect, it's more likely a problem with the computer than the network itself. Everything is up to date.
However this morning I noted that the Time Capsule thought it was in the UK (which doesn't cause a problem to anyone else, but I fixed it) and I also switched on the 5GHZ network option and connected to that.
Wireless Diagnostics is monitoring my wifi connection. I wonder if anyone knows how to interpret the logs it produces when/if my connection fails?

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