Airplay from 4S crashes Wifi

When I use the iPhone4S Airplay function in my home network, it will play music for about 30secs, then the Wifi will cut out - for all devices - the indicator light on my Airport Extreme blinks yellow until it - so I assume - reboots and all is fine. Until I use Airplay again.
Streaming music from iTunes from either my macbook or my macpro works fine. iPhone not at all.
Using Airport Extreme & Airport Express, none prompt me to update their firmware.
Other people seem to be having the same issue: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1257699
Any ideas on fixing this?

sstelter wrote:
Sorry, but that's just a ridiculous thing to say. The fact that an issue is intermittent or dependent on other variables does not mean its not an issue.  You have provided an opinion with no data and no help.  If you can't contribute to a solution, please abstain from this thread.
If a device on a network can crash a router/WAP, the issue is with that router/WAP is there is no "crash the network" command within the Wi-Fi protocol.
That's why there are networking standards; if properly adhered to they dictate what will occur when commands are received and commensurately, the only things that will happen.
Feel free to fill out the form and peruse the actual specifications of the protocol yourself if you so choose; there's no "crash network" option.
http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.11n-2009.pdf
Whether the router is Apple's or another vendor's, it needs to be able to deal with whatever traffic/commands are sent to it.

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