Continually knocked off home network while cable modem looks normal

I have a cable modem connected to an Airport Extreme base station (circa 2005, so it's the 802.11b/g). Almost every day I get knocked off my home network and the name of the network that shows up is "linksys" for some reason. The cable modem lights continue to flash in their normal sequence. I live in a private house, not an apartment building.
What I then do is follow a protocol that I discovered on this site (I don't remember if it was this forum) a couple of years ago -- I shut down all the computers, unplug the modem and Airport, wait five minutes, and then plug everything back in sequence.
Last night after I got through yelling at my cable company, they ran some tests remotely and suggested that the problem was with the Airport base station. How can I check for the connectivity of that? What in the System Preferences or Airport Setup can I look at? Thanks.

Change the wireless channel on your AirPort Extreme to try to avoid the interference that you are picking up from the Linksys router in your vicinity.
Open AirPort Utility - click Manual Setup
Click the Wireless tab/label located just below the row of icons
Start with Channel 11
Update to save your changes
Keep trying different channels working your way down until you find a clear channel, or you run out of channels

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airport (snow) network with g3 ibook, intel imac and
g4 imac. g4 was tuned off for couple days and will
now not see home wireless network. airport symbol
appears gray and it shows up in system profile, so i
think it is functioning. in addition, the other
computers, as well as this problematic g4 imac have
always picked up 3 or 4 other neighborhood networks.
but now this g4 imac will not see any of these other
networks when the other 2 computers do.
i have tried the airport admin utilities and network
assistant in preferences with not luck. the fact
this computer is not seeing any of the networks that
the other 2 are picking up makes me think this is a
hardware problem ( card, wire). before i take it
appart, are there any recommendations. thanks.
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