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dropping router connection

about 1-2 times a week, my laptop and wireless printer lose their connection. once I reboot the router, they reconnect. my iPhone and kindle never lose their connection. the router is several years old. could the router lose connection from certain devices and not others? would a new router fix the problem? thanks

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You could try changing the channel in your router settings, usually it would be set to "auto", could be something around you causing interference.  A slightly more complicated thing to try would be assigning static IP addresses to the devices that drop their connection.