Recent intermitent connection issues

We live in an apartment building sharing a cable internet with my mother in law in the apartment right below us. Untill about a week ago, it was working fine. New neighbors, new problems.
The signal will be excellent, then just drop and flake in and out for a few minutes or a little longer. Ive tried changing channels from 11 (default) to 5 and 6, down to 1. Nothing seems to really help.
My real question is simply this, would a signal booster help at all? Like a bridge placed in her apartment. Right now she is just using an external USB wireless card.
The model we have is the WRT54G. We've also tried a Belkin router, same troubles. (kinda rules out firmware upgrades)

Hi…
What is the approximate distance between the two apartments?
To improve the signal strength of your router you need to get a range expander. You can also replace the existing antenna of your router with linksys high gain antenna. The range expander will expand the range of your wireless router.

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