Wireless cutting out with lots of disk access

This happening to anyone else? It's happened to me twice today, but if I'm writing to the disk a lot, either from a wired computer or a wireless one, the wireless network sometimes goes away and won't come back with out a base station reset.

Has anyone seen anything like this?
Basically, try to xfer a lot of data to the drive, or R/W from it a lot, and wireless fails. I lose all wireless connectivity from an XP box running 802.11g, a Powerbook on 802.11 g, and an airport express running 802.11b.
My wired XP box keeps working fine.
This has happened 4 times now. In at least one case, I had to power cycle the base station. The other times, I just had to access it via the utility and make it restart via the update button -- w/ or w/o config change.
/Sean

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In the FAQ of the Airtunes, Apple mentioned to use lower security, as some Computers probably do not have enough power to stream music flawlessly. But my Computers really do have enough power! I think the AX does not have enough power to do that. So I created another wireless network with one of my AX. I set the security to WEP-40bit key and joined this new Network with my other AX. Not the best solution, as I'm now connected to the Internet or to the AX to use Airtunes. Cables could fix that problem, but then I could use a wired system instead...
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