AirPlay seems to crash home wifi network

Hi all,
I am having problems in operating airplay at home.
I am running an iMac, Time capsule and airport express across a wireless network. I am using my iPad 3 as a remote to control my iTunes library. The airport express connects to my stereo. This is recognised in iTunes and connects. To start with music plays through the stereo over airplay via airport express. The airport express is set up to 'extend' network. After a few minutes the connection seems to drop, the song is still playing on iMac but not via airplay on stereo. My iPad and iPhone seem to disconnect from my wireless network and they can't find iTunes library nor connect to the Internet.
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Suggestions most welcome.

Tried this, I still have the same problem. I can only access the internet when on apple.com if I try to open a different web page I get the Neatgear genie page again. It also won't allow apps that need the internet to open.

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