Airport Express intermittent trouble

I'm using an Airport Express with my iMac G4, Powerbook, and notebook PC. The powerbook and pc work great, however my iMac works intermittently connecting to the net.
Sometimes it works fine, others all I get is "Safari can't connect to the server." Last night I reinstalled the Airport software on the iMac, and I thought that resolved it. Same problems tonight.

Sometimes this is caused by radiofrequency interference from neighboring networks or 2.4GHz portable phones (yes, even though the other computers seem unaffected). Try changing the channel used by your Airport Express (start experimenting with either channel 1 or 11) - this setting found under the Airport tab of the Airport Admin Utility.

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