IPhones and iPods ALL drop wireless at same time-but not iPad??

In my family, we have mutliple Apple devices online at the same time.
iPhone 3s
iPhone 4s
two iPods
iPad 2
I also have two work laptops and a personal laptop, all running Windows 7. Plus, I also have an XBOX 360 on a Linksys wireless gaming router (older one...can't run WPA2 security, only WPA)
They are connected to internet with Netgear WNR2000 wireless router, running WPA security, up to 54 GB/s (I believe on 2.4 GHz).
HERE'S MY ISSUE:
About once every day or two, all of my iPhones and iPods will drop off of the wireless network - at the SAME TIME.  However, every other device in my house is running perfectly smoothly on the network.  Including the iPad 2, which never has any network issues.   The "fix" is, going over to the router and cycling it off and on again.  But that is not a real fix. 
The dropping is kind of random, sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the evening.  But usually after several hours after a recycle.
I have tried all kinds of router channels,1 -11, I have tried WEP and both kinds of WPA security (AES and TKIP).  I cannot do WPA2 because of my older Linksys access point.
The problem started happening when I added security to the router.  But I do not want to have the router without security any longer, so removing it is not an option.
Does anyone have any idea why all of my iPhones and iPods would drop the wireless network at the exact same time, however, my iPad 2 and every other device in my household NEVER drops?
I have already tried renaming the network, and that doesn't help, and I have tried moving the channel around - no better.  I am trying reserved IP addressing for my i-devices...but am not optimistic. (I read about trying this somewhere...)
Please help!  If someone could at least help explain what is common between my iPhones and iPods but not common with the iPad it might help me figure this out.

@wjosten
I agree that network interference can cause problems. I have surveyed the other close networks and tried multiple channels, same result.
But if it were bad channels, I don't know how that would explain why only the same set of iDevices would all be thrown off network at same time (and it's always the same ones),  while my other devices all work fine. 
My router is only single channel, so everything is on the 2.4ghz band.

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