Intermittent connection issues from Mac Pro & iPhone

Hello I have a single band AEBSn. I bought it in Nov. 2007 and it's been working great. Occasionally on my Mac Pro my the airport signal strength drops off and it displays a "searching" icon (the icon cycles through all signal strengths as it searches). During this time I cannot connect to the AEBSn with my iPhone, either. This scenario has been observed with all iPhone OS versions as well as Leopard and Snow Leopard on the Mac Pro which rules out the issue being the computer.
The green light is always illuminated on the router and I get no error messages. After awhile (sometimes a couple min, sometimes longer) the connection re-establishes on it's own. No restart of any device is necessary for it to reconnect.
Any ideas what could be the issue?

I have it set to automatically find a channel. I thought it scanned for the least amount of traffic on a given channel to use? I only pick up 4 other wifi hotspots at my house but I do live in the city with plenty of other devices running I'm sure.
What's default for most Linksys and D-Link routers, Ch 11 correct? I'll try changing to Ch 1 for now to see how that goes.

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