Wifi no longer connects

OK this is driving me mad:
wifi works perfectly for a month or so from new. Then it breaks mid iplayer stream and that's it... no more connections; any attempt to connect to any wifi network results in the "Unable to join the network..."
Now, here's the things i've tried to repair this issue:
reset network settings
turned airplane mode on/off many times
turned wifi on/off many times
hard reset
hard reset + restore of iphone to original state
hard reset + restore of iphone to original state on a different computer
multiple reboots of two different routers
changes of various types of encryption, turning encryption off, changing channel number and network name
full reset of the iphone locally on the device to factory settings
The only thing that has showed a glimmer of possibility is that the iphone will connect to a computer to computer network created by a macbook pro no problem. Though, connecting it to a shared network from the same laptop also fails.
i've even tried bashing the iphone a bit. That didn't work either.
i have tried every possibly combination of reboot, reset, restore, on off on off, possible across multiple routers.
help.

Turn off your iPhone completely (hold sleep button until the power off slider shows up and turn off the phone)
Hold the sleep and home button simultaneously for 10 seconds or so and then release the sleep button while still holding in the home button. This will put your iPhone into recovery mode.
If you haven't already, download the older version of the firmware. Go to this website and download the firmware that is right for your iPhone. When you go to this site, make sure that you download the correct firmware for your 2g iPhone or 3g iPhone. http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=750
Now connect your iPhone to your computer and open iTunes. iTunes will detect that your iphone is in recovery mode and tell you that you need to restore it. If you are using a Mac you need to hold down the option button and click restore, if you are using a Windows PC hold down the shift button and click restore. This will allow you to choose the firmware file you want to restore to. So when it asks to choose the firmware, browse to the firmware you downloaded from above and it should restore to that version of the firmware.
Let us know how this works for you. If this method doesn't work either, then I would say it is definitely a hardware problem, even though it already sounds like a hardware problem.

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