IPhone won't connect to my router, but will to my neighbours'!

I have an iPhone 3G with the latest software update installed, and a Netgear DG834N wireless router (latest firmware). The router has no security enabled except MAC filtering and a hidden SSID.
Until recently, the phone would connect to the router successfully. Its MAC address is still listed on the router panel. But suddenly it cannot see the router at all, even if it's right next to it. If I enter the network's name, the iPhone responds with 'network not found'. And yet it has no trouble connecting to my neighbours' wireless routers even two houses along the road.
I've tried the obvious things, like un-hiding the SSID and turning off MAC filtering, but it makes no difference.
I just don't get it: why would an iPhone 3G be unable to detect a router with no security which is in the same room? I have three Macs in the house which detect a strong signal from the router across three whole floors and into the garden!

Ok this is getting RIDICULOUS Apple... there is obviously a problem with the software/firmware... this WiFi issue is popping up on ALL iPhone old and new; heck some of these people just bought a phone 2 weeks ago and the WiFi has quit working.
I have spent the better part of a month surfing the discussion forums looking for a resolution to my iPhone WiFi woes, to no avail!! I have tried all the reasonable suggestions, nothing. I have tried all the crazy and moronic suggestions and still nothing. Every once in a while I can connect to my WiFi, but it only last a few seconds. I tried the restart, the static IP, a new router, no security, b, g, f and z :o) Seriously... this shat is broke and Apple needs to fix it.
I am a 20 year veteran of IT and network solutions, and with everything I have tried, I have not been able to resurrect my iPhone's WiFi. The bottom line is this... I purchased my iPhone on June 29th, 2007 and it has work flawlessly with any network, hot spots, at work, with security without, with mac address filitering and without and many other configuration... until iPhone OS 2.2.1, and now I and hundreds if not thousands of others can no longer connect to WiFi.
It surely does not seam like Apple reads or monitors these forums... but I will say this... we need to all STOP spending our time monkeying around with our wireless networks and instead start writing, calling and posting here asking if not telling Apple to fix this problem in the next firmware release.
I for one will be giving up on the iPhone if Apple does not fix this issue soon. The iPhone becomes basically like any other so-called smart phone without the WIFi... heck you cannot do half of the cool things on the iPhone without the WiFi feature.
Come'on Apple fix the iPhone WiFi.

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