Wireless network has lost its range...  help please

Hi,
I have an 80211B network using Airport cards in 3 ibooks and for 2 years the range has been fine all over the house, outside by the barbeque ect... Suddenly and recently all of the range is gone beyond about 15 feet of the wireless router except on a few occasions. I thought maybe that my my neighbors wireless network was interfearing since they recently added wireless to their house. However, I had them ungplug their rpouter yesterday and it made no difference.
I have not added any wirelss devices such as cell phone recently so nothing has changed as far as that goes in my house. I even went out and bought a Linksys wireless G router and extension antennas to see if it would make a difference but it has not. The nonly think I have not tried is a range extender but I have a feeling since the signal is so weak 20 feet away, it will not do anything? I have already tried changing channels, turning off encryption and a few other adjustments and nothing is working.
HELP PLEASE!
Thank you, Mitch Farber

It sounds to me like something in the area is intefering. Cell phones don't necessarily do this, but cordless home phones will- Or someone has gotten into your Router and done some fiddling. There are firmware hacks out there for the Lynksys- some that allow you to really crank the power.. as a test of course.
google it!
JDS

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