said by IowaCowboy:When you are dealing with Apple hardware, a failure is unlikely. Several of my friends use Apple routers and they have had zero issues with them. We're talking a $179 piece of hardware.
i don't know what you're smoking but in our manufacturing company, we have both macs and pc's on the network.....
we have one mac that's always a problem child even after repeated attempts to fix it...and yes, we do have an IT dept that's very capable but the macs came into play after our VP who probably smokes the same stuff you do, has so much to say about Apple...
not because it's Apple and costs your newborn child doesn't mean it will not fail. and just because of this, you won't even try isolating it as it maybe the problem child?
EDIT: seeing that you're a complete Apple setup guy, just try another router, heck even another apple router just for the sake of troubleshooting...