WiFi issue after ICS update

This has also happened with me, specifically the issue where my phone says I am connected to wifi but wifi does not work. In order to get wifi working again I have to turn it off then back on. This started to happen after the update to ICS.

Now thinking this was an ICS bug I completely wiped my phone and reformatted everything including the internal storage. I then proceeded to flash a CM 10.1 mod. The Feb 15th build of this particular one to be exact http://http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36724636&postcount=2. But doing this did not seem to solve the problem. Although now I could tell when wifi was not going to work as the wifi indicator would be grayed out. What is odd is that the triangles within the wifi indicator would still indicate data being sent and received.

Next I looked at my router being the potential culprit, a linksys wrt54g v4. So I proceeded to flash Tomato to the router. All seemed fine and dandy for the rest of the evening and even when I woke up in the morning. After I returned home from work all seemed fine for about an hour until the problem showed back up, just to clarify this problem also shows up on the wifi at my work place.

So as of now I am still dealing with this issue. It is frustrating because every other device that uses wifi in my house does not have this issue. I even own a nexus 7 which has never encountered this problem.
 
DO...A...FACTORY...RESET
DO...A...FACTORY...RESET

Is this hard to understand everyone?

ATTENTION NOOBS: IF YOU UPDATED FROM EL29 GINGERBREAD TO FF18 ICE CREAM SANDWICH DO A FACTORY RESET...I REPEAT...DO A FACTORY RESET

What will a factory reset fix???
Horrible Battery Life
Crappy WiFi Performance
Random Reboots
Poor Radio Performance
App InCompatibilty
Lagginess
DID I MENTION POOR BATTERY LIFE?
DID I MENTION CRAPPY WIFI?

But wont a factory reset delete all my user data?

YES YOU WILL LOSE ALL USER DATA. THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN INORDER FOR THESE RANDOM ISSUES TO BE FIXED. BASICALLY ITS LIKE A BAND AID....JUST PULL IT OFF FAST

If Im not rooted how can I backup my apps and app data?

USE AN APP IN GOOGLE PLAY CALLED "MYBACKUP" AND ONLY BACK UP YOUR APPS.

DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT BACKUP APP DATA. APP DATA FROM EL29 INTERFEARS WITH FF18 STABILITY.

Why didnt Samsung/Sprint make the update.zip wipe my user data?

THIS IS BECAUSE USERS DONT LIKE SUPRISES. SAMSUNG KNOWS THIS. DO A MANUAL WIPE.

What About the eMMC Lockup Bug?

I HAVE DID 13 FACTORY RESETS ON THE OTA FF18. MY PHONE IS STILL ALIVE. IF THIS DOES HAPPEN THEN YOU WILL GET A WARRANTY REPLACEMENT FROM SAMSUNG.

Let me let you in on a little secret.... A FACTORY RESET DOES NOT NECESSARILY FIX THE WI-FI ISSUES, OK?
 
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What about when you get the device brand new out of the box running ICS with this problem? Do you still suggest a reset?
 

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