Time Capsule stops transmitting wireless signal-power cycle required to fix

My 1 TB Time Capsule will work as a wireless access point for hours.. like 7 or 8 hours and then just
stop transmitting. It just doesn't show up as an available access point. If I power cycle (unplug/plug) it, then it starts working again. This seems to happen whether time machine is enabled or not.
Anyone else seeing this type of behavior?

My 500GB Time Capsule showed up on Friday of last week to replace a Linksys WRT54G router. I've been using the same MacBook since May of 2006 and the last several months, I've been having frequent connection issues running 10.4.11. I could only connect in the same room as the router. If I went on the other side of my small house, I'd lose the signal. Also on the old network was a Dell 300m, circa 2003 that runs 802.11B, a Nintendo Wii, and two Nintendo DS handhelds.
I configured the new Time Capsule as a closed network with WPA/WPA 2 encryption and interference robustness . So far I've only setup my MacBook, the wife's Dell, and the Wii. It was working great for the first few days. Tonight, my wife was using her Dell on the couch and I was working on the Mac in the dining room a few feet away. It seems that mixed mode traffic destroys the signal/noise ratio. We were both having issues with dropped connections. I rebooted the router from Air Port utility and it never came back. I checked it in my office and the light was solid green. So I unplugged it for a few seconds to cycle the power and the signal came back, but by this time my wife shut her computer down. At the time of peak interference which degraded the signal, the logs showed the Wii had the strongest signal and both laptops had next to none.
I should also note that the last couple of weeks have been really bad with just my MacBook running 10.4.11 on the network. I decided to do a fresh install of 10.5.4 after I setup the Time Capsule on Friday and my problems seemed to vanish. But it appears there are some major interference issues with my wife's Dell with Centrino and the MacBook.
But to more clearly answer your question, yes, my Time Capsule behaved exactly as you've described this evening.

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