Extreme suddenly lost range

My airport extreme suddenly lost it's range last night. We were working on the computer, where we always do, and the internet just disappeared. I have my extreme upstairs (for the last 6 months) and have NEVER had a problem, maybe usually only lose 1 bar, anywhere in the house. Now I can't connect at all when I'm downstairs, and I drop down to 1-2 bars when I'm in the NEXT room. Anyone know why this might suddenly happen? Thanks,
Wade
oh yeah, and I have full bars when I'm in the same room. No new materials have been added anywhere in the house.
Message was edited by: Wahaco

As well as above, I would set the base station to only accept n connections if that is not set already. If you don't have it set to the 5ghz band yet, also try that, as your interference might be something other than another wireless network.
If you set your base station to only accept "n" connections this will eliminate the possibility of the problem being caused by someone else connecting at the slower speed, forcing your network to operate in b/g mode.
For some reason, my base station does not have channel selections when it's in the 5ghz mode although it hasn't been an issue for me. The only setting it will accept is automatic, but I haven't had any interference issues while it is in 5ghz mode.

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