I have the fabulous Apple Airport Express and am using it as an access point in my apartment and would like to keep it as my primary method of connecting to the internet so I don't have to string cables all over the place. The problem is that my laptop can see EIGHT wireless networks in addition to my own, so there's tons of interference and sometimes, when the wind blows or the moon is in the right phase, I will lose my connection and have a heck of a time getting it back.

So, is there any way of helping with this? I turned on the "Interference Robustness" feature, but it still drops. Are there channels that are rarely used, or do the routers jump around until they find an unoccupied one? Can I tell my computer to lock on to my network and my network only?

<Unrelated rant> My stupid ISP (well, internet provided for free by my building) shuts off the http ports every few hours for 5-10 minutes. That's just obnoxious. I guess it's to prevent huge filesharing networks, but I can still IM and VPN, so I'm guessing it probably does no good. Actually, I know it does no good because my internet is usually ground to a halt at peak hours, and I poke along with barely usable speed. I can only imagine how much porn my neighbors are downloading