Random WiFi dead zones in the house???

So I've noticed that I have at least one WiFi dead spot about 8 feet from my router, but its ONLY on the iPhone that I have the dead spot. I can go out in the yard, to the other end of the house, the front and back porch and get WiFi but if I sit on one particular end of my couch its nearly impossible to access my home network. When I am able to access it, it drops after a single page loads in safari.
Has anyone else experienced this or know what could cause this? It works with my Blackberry, my iBook, the Wii, my work laptop, and everything else, EXCEPT the iPhone. Any ideas?
I should also add that I do show WiFi at 2 of 3 bars on the iPhone's signal meter. The router is a fairly new Netgear Rangemax Wireless N and I have verified that it does have excellent range.

I have noticed that my MacBook often has the same problem as your iPhone. The Airport network will drop out totally, while my iPhone works fine.
My guess is that the signal from the router is weak in that spot due to interference within the wireless signals themselves. I'm sure there is some nice and complex mathematical way to show that these dead spots exist, but I find just moving my router to the side or shifting the position of my device slightly fixes the problem.
At least you know you're not the only one!

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