AirPort turns off by itself and won't turn on without restart

I got it back yesterday, after 20 hours of use, no problems. But that's not saying much because it'll take a week or two to be sure because you can never predict when airport wants to shutoff. But I found when i was meeting with the genius that jerking the moniter froze the macbook and turned off the wireless card. So if the monitor was the issue hopefully its solved because I have a brand new monitor and got rid of all my scratches too :P. I will update in a week just to see if it was the root cause and if the problems are fixed. As long as ur under warranty, it should be good, otherwise itll take 600-700 dollars.

Good luck with it =). Yeah mine's under warranty... I bought it 2 weeks ago and it's happened since day 1. Oddly enough it hasn't happened today. I think I've discovered for me it happens mainly when I close the lid in sleep then wake it up and use it. Granted this shouldnt happen. But it used to happen after awhile without putting it in sleep too, so I don't know.

Oddly this is the first day in 2 weeks that I've kept a solid internet connection both on my campus wifi and my work's wifi. No idea why or how it could fix itself, but I suppose miracles happen lol. Now the real test will be when I go home and try it. It never has connected to my home network right. It used to connect and I could get 1 or 2 sites to load for a minute or so, then not work... to be fair, it says it's connected but it doesn't access the internet. Since that first few days when I had that it hasn't brought up the internet ever since. That's not as big a deal since my iMac connects to my wireless network no problem... besides it keeps me from being distracted on the internet while working on homework on my laptop lol.

But somethings wrong with my laptop for sure, I just don't have the time to trek all the way down to an Apple store. Blah.

FYI, I brought my MacBook Pro to the Apple store after talking to a few Apple Experts on the phone. They immediately swapped my MacBook for an identical new one because the first one had no scratches and I still had the box and all the contents.

That was 4 days ago, and I've had no problems since.

I have the same problem where I try to connect to any wireless connection, the Airport turns off spontaneously, and I'm stuck! It's been happening for 3 days now. I think I remember seeing a failed update around that time too. Anyone else notice that?

I hijacked this thread to talk about this issue (oops):
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10527112#10527112

Basically the solution is: bring your MacBook into the Apple store or mail it in and have it replaced. When I did that, everything has been working perfectly since then.

So far no problems at all, i think i got mine fixed. 😀

If you only got it just a while ago, that maybe enough to warrant a replacement. Too bad you live so far away from an apple store. I'm not sure that my solution would fit everybody else's but it solved mine and so far it's the only concrete solution i've seen. did your macbook ever freeze up?

I had this problem and replaced the memory - all better! Turns out one of the after-market memory modules I bought 2yrs ago had failed. I've upgraded to new Kingston ValueRAM 4gb and everything has been working fine - and my computer feels a lot faster too 🙂

Have you seen all the other discussions reporting this problem. You can leave feedback for Apple here...

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Here is what I have just written to them...

Hi, I love my 13" MBP, I have had it for around 6 months now. However recently I have found that it randomly disconnects throughout the day. Extremely frustrating. My old Macbook nearly 2 years old I gave to my wife does not suffer from this at all. We both connect to the same router on the same network. I am not the only person finding this. At the time of writing this mail to you there are over 8000 views on one single support forum thread entitled "Wireless disconnects randomly throughout the day on 13" MBP". There are also many other forum threads describing the same fault. Infact 8 out of the first 15 discussions on your 1st page list of threads reference this problem- thats over half! All people reporting a problem with MacBook Pro's and wifi connection dropouts, running both 10.5 and 10.6. Please can you sort this out.

Here is a list of forums where people are begging for a solution. There are more discussions than this, this is just a selection. Please don't ignore us.

8411 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2116174&tstart=15

7912 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2108841&tstart=30

6029 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2077738&tstart=0

3180 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2159149&tstart=45

2222 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2143268&tstart=30

1271 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2196802&tstart=0

1092 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2172455&tstart=60

865 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2103370&tstart=60

561 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2168865&tstart=15

532 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2199231&tstart=0

425 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2217751&tstart=45

334 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2220528&tstart=15

216 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2230572&tstart=0

264 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2227801&tstart=0

121 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2232460&tstart=0

75 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2235250&tstart=0

72 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2228356&tstart=15

88 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2233304&tstart=0

80 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2230603&tstart=15

152 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2230645&tstart=15

165 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2229632&tstart=15

96 views http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2231890&tstart=15

Kind regards,
Mike.