My mac is constantly  dropping my wi fi connection when not in use for a while - annoying.

Recently my Mac has taken to dropping  the wi fi connection -  it seems to happen if the Mac isnt used for a short peiod of time say 10 mins or longer . It is very annoying and  it never used to do this. When you come back it tells you no connection and then  looks for the nework and says it cant find the prefeered one. I have reset newtork preferences to id/connect to  my home wi fi netowrk but the problem persists every time I ause use fora while. Really annoying. Is this something to do with a  recent OS software upgrade? Does Apple have a fix ? I am getting increasingly annoyed with  thier upgrades which are apparently  desighend to improve software but which  then degrade another apsect of performance. Any answers?

Hi Bibii and welcome to Discussions,
first of, you have posted in the Mac Pro section not the MacBook Pro section here http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=190
Anyway, is this really a shutdown or is it just sleeping ?
If sleeping check the Energy Savings settings in the System Preferences for when your MBP should go to sleep when inactive.
Regards
Stefan

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