PLEASE HELP - Internet keeps cutting me off - is it because of my router?

Hello!
I live in a building where I can see many active wireless connections from my neighbors. I have my own router that is giving me a very strong signal, however, every 10 minutes or so my internet will die on me and I need to constantly shut off Airport...turn it back on, and reconnect to my router.
Do you think this is an issue with my router?

It may be that your router has a setting for the number of devices that can be active on the network. You should be able to adjust that setting as well as a connection time setting if there is one. Check your router's instructions to see how to access the web-based setup page, but I've read other posts, some of which said just type - home - into your browser's address bar, but otherwise you enter something like this for a Linksys: http://192.168.1.1
Also, you might have a problem with outside interference, refer to this Apple article - Items that can interfere with AirPort: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Airport/5.0/en/ap2082.html
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