Wifi Internet Connectivity Drops

So I have the latest generation Airport Extreme Base Station and a couple Iphone 4s devices in the household... They will both occasionally drop internet  connectivity, though the icon in notification bar shows the wifi as having full strength.  The only way to get internet connectivity back is to go into Settings > Wi-Fi and toggle Wi-Fi to off and back on.  We have several Macbook Pros & Apple Tvs on Wi-Fi in the house and none of them experience issues like this, just the iPhones...  So far I've downloaded an app called iStumbler to see what neighbors channels my neighbors Wifi was on and changed my AEBS 2.4ghz wifi channel from automatic to a channel nobody was using, but that hasn't seemed to help.  I've also completely factory reset my iPhone & AEBS and that hasn't helped...It feels like maybe this all started happening around 6.1 update onwards... everything was totally solid for over a year...
Any thoughts?

If you connect directly to the router with an Ethernet cable that would remove the wireless out of the equation. Then if the problem persist then you know it isn't to do with the wireless and something in either the router or ISP side of things.
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