E4200 wireless drops and timeouts

Hello,
I have the latest version firmware
I am constantly getting dropped and timeouts accross all of my devices this has been hapening for several months now I think ever since I upgraded to 1.0.04
It says no internet access when the wired computers have it fine.
Android phones, windows 7 pc, and chromebook.

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