Wireless signal quality just randomly worsened.

Well.. its good day from TK31 and his dodgy macbook pro. I've been having a lot of problems recently with this macbook, and this is yet another chapter in the suffering.
Okay, the wireless quality suddenly decides to stop having reception in my room. It shows full connection quality, but it cant seem to connect to the ISP, Internet, Server.
My room is upstairs in a normal house, around say 2-3 meters (6.5 - 9.8 feet) in a North Westerly direction from my antenna. not very far. As soon as I walk into the corridor, around 1.2 meters closer to the router, i get internet connection back. like IMMEDIATELY as i step out of my room... not an inch further out, not an inch closer inside the door.
The only thing separating the router and my macbook is the 2nd floor's floor.
Also, even though it displays full connection quality in the airport settings, i cannot access my router's settings page, which when pinged returns timeouts.
Message was edited by: TK31
Message was edited by: TK31

Thanks. that was close to the solution. I reset it, but moved it away from an electronic water filtration system i have going in the house. It either was interference from the filtration system, or as you said, a simple repower as i've had the router on without switching it off for around a month now.

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