Unreliable WiFi connections when on battery power

I've had my MBP for 2 weeks. It worked flawlesly for the first 10 days. Since then, when running on battery power, my WiFi connection drops repeatedly, and at random intervals. Signal strength is good always (on a/c pwr or batt) and I am always able to reconnect via the menu bar by re-selecting my network.
I believe that this started happening after the latest updates were downloaded and installed.
Again, this only happens when running on battery power...
Any ideas?

This is an issue that has appeared in many threads. It looks like OS X Tiger has a driver issue with certain wireless APs - something related to power management.
In my case, I had no trouble with my Netgear AP but when I recently switched to a Linksys running DD-WRT open source software, I would drop my connection on battery every 2 minutes or so.
Same computer using Windows has no drops. I have not seen any press that Apple has admitted to the issue.
Until then, use the workaround that has been suggested. Run the Cococonut Wifi. This is a menu-bar utility that shows a count of open APs in the area. However, the side-effect is to keep the wireless driver open and stop the disconnects. It worked for me. The URL is: http://coconut-flavour.com/coconutwifi/index.html
Enjoy...

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