The wonders of the Time Capsule; I keep dropping internet.

Ok, so a little back fill here as to what the issues are. I have an all Apple house, 1 iMac, 2 Macbooks, 2 ATV's, and a couple iPhones. In the past I had run into issues where the iMac would not connect or stay connected to the wireless network. After some deep research I was able to find an answer to resolve that issue. More recently, my TC has been randomly dropping its signal to all of my wireless devices. The problem is that I still have a green light on the TC, but I can't access any form of internet on any one of my products. I can access airport utility but nothing shows up, yet all of my products still say they are connected via the airport logo in the finder bar. A normal power cycle will normally reset the TC and it will go error free for a while. The word "while" being extremely subjective. At times it has gone a couple weeks without needing a power cycle, other days though, I might have to reset it four, five times a day. I'm tired of leaving the comfort of my couch to reset the TC. I have wireless for a reason, and this is not it. Other than this issue, I love the darn thing and haven't been happier with any other computer products. Any help or anyone who might have experience with this, I would greatly appreciate.

My TC was fine for about 6 months after purchase, then I started experiencing problems. Firstly it was the wireless network fell away and TC couldn't be found, and I overcame that with a hard reset. Then it was failed backups, then it was failure to find TC as a backup server, with all sorts of pop-up window messages:
- "The storage location for Time Machine backups can't be found!"
- "Connection Failed"
- "Connection failed
- "This file server will not allow any additional users to log on. Please try to connect again later."
- "The storage location for Time Machine backups can't be found."
And all the while the wireless network running from the TC was working??
Couldn't even connect to the TC, so I've just reverted back to firmware 7.3.2 in an attempt to rid myself of the dreaded scourge of 7.4.1. he says with hope in his heart!
I had to select the TC in the backup set-up again, but at least it looks like it's now doing the job of backing up. Like previous post, I will get back to here if this proves to be a temporary success.

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