re: Everybody gave you good advice below.
"Has anybody else encountered problems with interference? I work for a truck dealership and I routinely lose connections with the laptops that we use to run diagnostics on the trucks... Not completely sure if its coming from other wireless networks in the neighborhood, tools that put off static electricity, or overpowered CB radios driving by on the interstate..."
Running engines possibly. Sparkplugs and condenser coils (alternators also perhaps) will put out lots of RF noise. If your system can monitor the signal to noise ratio of a connection put it near a running engine, then turn it off. Should be a big difference.