Network contiually dropping on new MacBook Pro

I have just bought the new 13" 2.8Ghz i7 core MacBook and have to continually have to keep connecting to my network.
I have 2 older MacBooks, iPhones, Apple TV and other family members using PC's on the network at various times with no issues...
I have mentioned this to some people around town here in Dubai and have mentioned that I am using Etisalat provided wireless router...could this be the issue?
Hopefully someone has the answer...

This is not the first problem I hear with people using Etisalat. Apparently it does have some type of conflict with Apple's new OS Lion. If the following options don't work, I'd go buy a different router and see what happens. Even if you return it if the problem persists.
First I'd do this:
1.       Make sure your Airport Network window looks like this
If it does, (with your network's name of course)...
then, do this.
2.       Under your Finder click on GO
          Then scroll down to Utilities and open it
          Open Disk Utility
          Select your main hard drive on the left column
          Go to the right column and click underneath where it says "Repair Disc Permission"
          Once the process is completed....
3.       Go to your Network Preferences
          Select the name of the network that keeps dropping
          Delete the Network
          Restart your MacBook
          Once it reboots, let your Airport look for available networks
          If it finds the name of the network you want, select it and follow setup steps.
          Sometimes a little cleaning/maintenance is all the comp needs.
If none of this works and all your other computers are working ok, I'd try going anywhere that has wireless with a non-Etisalat router. If your comp stays connected normally, then it's definitely the router. If it keeps dropping networks I'd make an appointment at the Genius bar to check the issue.
Good luck! Hope this helps!

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I have a question about how networking works with my new Macbook Pro. This is my first laptop so am new to mobile computing. I am about to configure it to replace my desktop which uses a wired DSL connection. Once I have my Macbook Pro configured to run off the DSL modem, what happens when I take this computer to a location that has ethernet? Will just plugging in the ethernet cable be enough to get on line? Or is there further configuration work that needs to be done?
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I see that there are already a lot of issues centering around networking problems with the new MacBook Pro. I would like to add mine to the list (I will be opening a ticket with AppleCare after this post).
I work for an educational institution, and one of the things we need is imaging capability to restore a notebook/computer to a "clean" state.
This has worked fine for all of our previous MacBook(Pro)s and desktop systems.
The new MacBook Pro is a big problem.
1. It won't netboot (yes, I've created a new netboot image with the base image from a new MacBook Pro). Bootup dies, and sits there with an AppleYukon2 rcv ring overflow message being repeated.
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3. After being imaged with APPLE'S DISK UTILITY, I get the same results as the 3rd party utility.
I would like to know if anyone else who is working with disk imaging is have the same problem with the new MacBook Pros.
Has anyone else experience AppleYukon2 error messages with a rcv ring overflow?
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IT Manager
iMac, MacBook(Pro), MacPro, Xserve Mac OS X (10.4.10)

1. It won't netboot (yes, I've created a new netboot
image with the base image from a new MacBook Pro).
Bootup dies, and sits there with an AppleYukon2 rcv
ring overflow message being repeated.
. After being imaged with a 3rd party application
(Casper), it won't communicate properly with Apple
servers (roughly 1MB/Sec on a Gigabit network).
Console log reveals an AppleYukon2 rcv ring overflow
error message being repeated. Oddly enough
communications with Windows servers is GREAT! But
SMB file transfers between Apple servers ends up
with the same AppleYukon2 error message.
. After being imaged with APPLE'S DISK UTILITY, I
get the same results as the 3rd party utility.
I would like to know if anyone else who is working
with disk imaging is have the same problem with the
new MacBook Pros.
Has anyone else experience AppleYukon2 error messages
with a rcv ring overflow?
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Brand new MacBookPro 17". Everything fine as standalone.
We plug it in our 1000BaseT (Gigabit) LAN. Transfer speed drops dramatically after about 30 seconds. Our 300MB test file transfer takes approx 90 minutes, not 30 seconds as usual. No error messages to the user, just an extreme slowness. Digging with console, we notice a repeating line (every second or two): "kernel[0]: AppleYukon2: 00000000,00000000 skgehw - cppSkDrvEvent - SKDRV_RXOVERFLOW: rcv ring overflow ", and sometimes this one: "AppleYukon2: 00000000,00000000 sky2 - RX ring overflow -- dropped a packet" or "AppleYukon2: 00000000,00000000 sky2 - RX ring overflow -- dropped 2 packets".
There is an option to stop the problem: we slow down to 100BaseTX the Eth speed (Network/Ethernet) and everything works, at moderate speed.
Oddy enough, if we: a) plug in or plug out a USB peripheral (as a card reader); or b) plug in or plug out a FireWire peripheral (as an external disk); or even c) mount or unmount a connected FireWire external disk; then the speed arises and console stops to get the error lines. Anyway the good effect lasts for 30 secons, then again in the mess. In short, if you repeatedly plugin/plugout you can transfer files.
For sure we will ask Apple, this is our situation at the present time.
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