[jhokanson]

That was a great story about actually managing to debug a wireless problem. I wish there were better diagnostic tools commonly available that would clearly explain these things. I'm not sure if in the author's case there is some software that would listen for extensive polling and flag that as an issue - even better if it could log running programs at the time and try and guess which one is causing the issue.

I'm constantly having problems with my mac laptops and after many hours (10+) of internet searching I still have no idea why the wifi doesn't always work reliably. Some days or weeks (months?) it is great. Other days every hour it is disconnecting. Sometimes resetting the router helps, sometimes it doesn't. The whole situation is extremely frustrating.

Some issues: Why am I getting a DNS issue when my wired desktop never has a wireless issue?

Sometime I swear that the laptops becomes much less reliable at the opposite end of my house as my router but the signal strength is generally still excellent (4 bars).

Anyway, I'm not asking to have my particular issues solved (although that would be much appreciated!!!!). The real issue just seems to be that debugging these issues is extremely difficult and not based on principles but just random things that people can try (e.g., delete your plist files).