IPad Messing up Router?

I heard a long time ago that the original iPad was banned from some college campuses because it somehow messed with the wifi. Now that someone is in our house with an iPad, the router has been crashing frequently, and nobody can get on the internet during those times.
Is this possible? Is it possible, but Apple fixed it with an iOS update? Is this impossible? Thanks for any info. I can't find the old article because searching "ipad messes up router" gives me articles on how to use the iPad.

I found a complaint about the Apple TV doing this on Discussions, and I also found this on Yahoo! Answers:
The thing is, the rest of the answers were idiotic like "your not getting enough internet from your company" and "get the xoom powered by droid", so I don't know if these people really have a problem, or they spilled milk on their router.
Why is my iPad 2 messing up my wifi so bad?
Practically whenever we turn it on, it always messes up the wifi so bad that we have to turn off everything that uses wifi and disconnect and reconnect. Does this happen to anyone else? Is there a way to solve this?
Answers (4)
Answerer 1YES! this happened to me with my iPad. It would disconnect and screw with our wifi. go to the apple store and tell them this, the will give you a new one and now mine works(:

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