All (only) Apple devices dropping home wifi. What do I do?

All my Apple devices (2006 iMac, 2012 iMac, Apple TV and son's iPhone 4 - when he's over) dropping Wi-Fi. What gives? Window 7, Window 8, Android tablets, Android phone, HP network Printer and even blackberry playbook and phones have no issues. Only the Apple devices!! Yes we have a lot of devices here but never more than 4 are ever here so not all devices are working at the same time.
I'm at my wit's end. It first happened when I pulled out my (never had any issue with) 2006 iMac for my son to use while he's staying with us. As I was updating everything, it kept dropping off the network. Now, my 2012 iMac has started doing it too as well as my (3r gen) Apple TV. I can't even watch one TV show (42 minutes-'ish) without having to reset 4 or 5 times.
Why only Apple!!! I have my 3TB digital collection connected up to my iMac and often watch movies from (i.e.) the bedroom using a Win 7 Laptop hooked to a TV pulling the file from it. Never used to be an issue but now I can hardly ever connect to it because it dropped off the network.
Can anyone give me actual USEFUL information on how to fix this?

basic.woodworks wrote:
Oh.. and Drew... I have no idea what you're talking about. I have no clue as to how to "record" nor what "deauth" is :-( though, among the people I know, I am, at times, the most knowledgeable computer geek I know but I really only know very little. Sorry.
It's not the first time
Deauth packets are used to tell a device to 'get of the network'. They don't require an authenticated connection, so anyone with a wifi card can use them to spoil your day. There are Linux tools that have the ability to target Apple devices by MAC address. It's tough to test unless you can run an app to see if there are lots of deauths being sent to your devices (I haven't tried on OS X, hence my question to the other users). There should be a way to get better logging of wifi disconnects on OS X. This covers it iirc…
http://hak5.org/episodes/episode-706
Since Android is also disconnecting too it's probably something else. You'd need to check for overlapping channels from other networks & do all the regular wifi debugging. iStumbler can help you see other networks (& overlapping channels).
It appears the wireless diagnostics has the ability to help too, I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned…
About Wireless Diagnostics
Read through that it should give you some tools to see what is happening.

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