Sounds like you might be getting interference (Quality = Signal - Noise) and your actual quality drop as the noise increases. If you are lucky it may be a phone or another AP on the same channel and simply switching to channel 1 or 11 will help. If you are unlucky the interference is all over the band and you will need to track it down, work around it with more directional antennas, or live with it.
'Thanks, Cliff,
But the noise level is unchanged between "good" and "nonexistent" wi-fi connections. The signal strength seems to vary around 70, and noise around 50. Sometimes the AirPort menu lets me connect, sometimes not, but the signal and noise levels (per MacStumbler and AP Grapher) don't change much.
Any other ideas, folks?
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