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Crossed Signals

To boost my wireless network's signal strength, I have an Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station on the second floor of my town house and an AirPort Express on the first floor. Aside from the neighbors' occasional 2.4GHz phone call, everything has worked fine. Lately, however, several 802.11 networks have popped up in my vicinity, and one of them has a signal strong enough to prevent me from connecting to my network when I'm on the first floor. How can I improve the signal strength?

Chris Tatian

Instead of attempting to boost the strength of the signal, ...

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