Macbook will only see AEx when I'm standing in the stairs

All right, this might be a stupid topic title but at least it says it all. It reminds me of my first cell phone, that I could only use when crouching in the shower to get a proper signal. I can only get my Macbook to connect to my AEx network when I'm standing in my stairs, holding my laptop with my hands, which is :
1) vaguely uncomfortable ;
2) definitely grotesque.
The light on the AE is green, the bars of the Airport icon in the menu bar are all black and my network appears in the drop-down menu, as well as the neighbours'. iStumbler says the signal is around 60% when I'm in my stairs (where it works) whereas it's 80% when the laptop and the AE are next to each other (and unable to see each other), so I'm thinking about interferences. Changed to another channel, but nothing has improved. The 'funny' thing is my Wii, of all things, located downstairs, can connect to the internet with no difficulty using the AE network — although it is 6 meters and a thick layer of concrete away from the AE base.
Also tried to tilt or place the AE base sideways, upside down,... but nothing changed either.
I'm running out of options and ideas... What else should I try ?

Most often BitTorrent, iCloud or some other cloud-data application is involved in cases of mysterious bandwidth use by a Mac. If you use iCloud, uncheck at least Photo Stream and Documents & Data in its preference pane and see whether there's any change. If you use third-party network backup software, disable that. If you use a torrent client, remove it.
Otherwise, there's no easy way to monitor network usage per process using built-in tools. If you're an advanced user and you want to try, see the manual page for the nettop(1) shell command. It may or may not provide the information you're looking for.
The third-party products Rubbernet and Little Snitch are supposed to record network usage by processes. I can't vouch for them. Both were available as free trials, the last time I checked. I suggest you uninstall either one when the question has been answered.

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