Why is my ipad mini disconnecting my netbooks wifi connection to my home router?

almost every time that I connect my Ipad mini to the charger, my netbook connection drops out and I have to go to my ipad mini and browse something like facebook before the netbook will work again. (Netbook is an Asus Aspire One with XP)
So I have an aspire one netbook, a home wireless router (which supports our households 3 laptops, 2 ipad mini's, an iphone, samsung, and nokia, plus occasionally the playstation.)
Everything is fine, all the connections work ok usually. But whenever I connect my ipad to the charger, instantly the netbook drops out and no longer can connect to the wifi network - until I browse facebook on the ipad mini on the charger, then the netbook can connect to the internet again.
It's the most bizarre thing.
I haven't done anything particular to setup anything on my ipad - just the usual apps and games. My netbook works fine if the ipad is turned off etc, but as soon as I connect it to the charger and it turns on bam out goes my netbook connection. Doesn't happen with my wifes Ipad mini when she charges it, or with any of the other devices as far as I can tell. It also happens if my netbook is on and working and the ipad is on and working, both connected to the internet fine, I connect to top up the charge on the ipad, and then when the ipad goes to sleep the netbook instantly stops working and I have to go wake it up and connect to facebook and then I can carry on working on the netbook until it goes to sleep again. The netbook definitely reports a connection to my home router and my ipad doesn't have any "be a wireless server" capabilities on it. Must be some sort of interference but I don't know what to do about it.
Happens a lot. Hasn't changed since upgrading the OS on the ipad to 7, still happens. Been happening for months now.

update - it seems to happen when the ipad goes to sleep - so I connect the ipad to the charger and I can still browse the internet on the netbook (asus aspire one), but as soon as the ipad decides that nothing's happened for a while and goes to sleep, it takes out the Wifi connection at that instant - and the netbook no longer can see the internet, and I have to go and wake up the ipad and open facebook to get internet back.
What can I try?

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