maybe tis will help, reding through a few different sites i googled seems to be either a settings or modem issue, hope it helps
(I was having increasing (maddening!) problems with wifi on my two week old Playbook not being able to hold a wifi connection to the internet. I use a 1st generation Apple Airport Extreme 80211N router — and have had no trouble maintaining wi-fi connections on the following:
- Blackberry Curve 9300 (ATT)
- Samsung Captivate smartphone
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 7" (w/Verizon 3G)
- Asus Transformer Android 10" "Honeycomb" tablet
- TiVo Premiere
- Dell Inspiron 15"
- MacBook Pro
- iPad 1
- iPhones 3GS and 4
So... a lot of wi-fi devices.
I solved my Blackberry Playbook wifi problem by fiddling with the Apple Airport Extreme router. The setting that had been causing so much trouble was my set-up default of "WPA2 Personal."
So first, I reverted back to WEP and that was a total fail on the PlayBook. When I switched over (and rebooted) to "WPA/WPA2 Personal" the Playbook's wifi came on line like a hot knife through butter! It successfully downloaded the newest large PB OS update in, like, 3 minutes!
Since switching the router settings, I have not been kicked off Playbook's wifi once. So I hope this may help others.