Airport extreme - erratic connection, particularly iOS wifi syncing

My Airport Extreme (most recent model) appears to have erractic wifi connections.
I originally thought it was just borderline signals as the Apple TV is quite far, and the MacBook Pro (2009) moves around the house.
But with the introduction of wifi syncing for iOS I'm finding devices dropping off and becoming visible again even a few few from the Airport Extreme. It seems to happen with all devices simulataneously.
At least most of the time I still appear to have a wifi connection from the devices, but iTunes and iDevice can't see each otehr
The new Airport utility has also been unable to locate the Airport extreme, even though my iPhone reported that it had a wifi connection.
I also believe I'm losing the wifi connection periodically as I've seen my iPhone report 3G data usage during the middle of the night (sometimes 10's of MB while streaming Pandora).
I reset the Airport Extreme this morning and all devices became immediately visible in iTunes and started syncing. It also became visible in Airport Utility
I haven't seen any problems with the Mac Pro connected via ethernet.
Devices
Airport Extreme
Mac Pro (ethernet)
rest wireless
Apple TV (1st gen)
MacBook Pro (2009)
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPhone 4s
iPod touch (2nd gen)
occasional work machine (Dell runing XP)

I found the problem ! Just changing the channels solved the problem. (not related to upgrade but to more and more wireless networks in the street.). So if you have the problem try to change the channels of the 2,4 network (see help of airport extreme - interferences with other networks)

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