Signal being overpowered by neighbours!!

Hi, I come here frustrated and desperate for answers.
My girlfriend and I both run iPowerbooks (OSX10.4.1) with Airport express.
We have been living in current apartment for over two years. For the last..? 8-9 months we have had a few new neighbours within complex that give off wireless signals that at times are so strong our pages take forever to load or sometimes drops out.
Most times of the day/night it works well. Though periodically we just get "overpowered" by 1 or 2 particular neighbour's signals.
(It is not my ISP).
I have:
-reset both Powerbooks. (they are not faulty)
-Hard Reset on Express
-Switched channels
-spoken to local Apple dealer (no help what so ever...)
-I have painstakingly read through these forums.
I am yet to find someone with my specific problem.
The Apple dealer said I might need a new Express. I find this doubtful as when it works - it work well.
I do not want to go buy another product for several hundreds dollars at this point when the one I have SHOULD be enough.
Can someone help?

I agree. It seems the 2.4GHz band in your area is horribly over-saturated. I'm guessing that one or more of your neighbors has boosted his signal overmuch and is bleeding over to the other channels. The only surefire fix for this is to goto the 5GHz network. Unfortunately, only the AP Extreme does this at this point. The Express is still stuck on 2.4GHz, and hasn't been updated yet.
I'm guessing you've tried the AEX in another location and it works fine? By "another location," I mean, far away from your apartment, like a friend's house. Doing that would narrow down the problem. If it IS your neighbors, then I would think getting an antenna would make the AEX even more sensitive to interference. Maybe, if you could narrow down which neighbor is affecting your signal, you could block his signal a bit, either by some sort of shielding or by a directional antenna? I'm just throwing things out there, but I'm afraid the only real solution I can come up with is to switch bands. Of course, all your computers would have to be 5GHz-capable, which probably isn't the case...

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