Yoga 2 11 drops signal on Airport router - change router settings?

i have spent several hours with Lenovo tech supports (all perfectly friendly), trying to fix the issue of the Yoga 2 11 consistently dropping the wifi connection at my workplace. Two important considerations:
* It's not entirely on the Yoga, as it does not have this issue with home wifi, coffee shop wifi, etc.
* And several other PC and Mac desktop and laptops have no trouble with the workplace wifi. The problem is definitely the way that the Yoga interacts with the Airport router.
Lenovo tech support has made numerous changes to my drivers, system settings, and so on, but cannot fix the problem. The next solution is to return the Yoga to factory settings -- a solution I'm convinced will not work as I've already returned one laptop to Best Buy for the same problem. In other words, two Yogas, directly out of the box (presumably with factory settings), had this issue.
My question is -- is there possibly a way I can change the Airport router settings (or set up a new network entirely) that might be more compatible with the Yoga 2 11 with Intel Wireless-N 7260 card? If I can't get the Yoga to talk to the router, maybe the router can be changed to talk to the Yoga.

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