Airport Express,  airport icon from black to grey losing signal,

airport Express worked great for a year. It is connected via ethernet cable to an RCA modem and runs a MACPRO QUAD and MBPro. Recently im getting interruptions slow connections/ pages take forever to load. I have tested the MAC PRO to the moden directly and it seems to work great. Wit AExp there seems to be a problem.
I ran Airport utility and it is reporting an error. I wish this wasnt so complicated. is there any one who could tell me how to start from scratch with this AE and get it working again. Road Runner boosted the signal so it is not the problem. The green light stays on. and there are moments when the internet and mail works fast. BUt recently there is slowness and the 3 curved lines ( upper right ) are not always black and 3 strong. this has started to vary.
IS this common with the AE cos i will trash it and get a router to run the two comps i need connected to internet and mail. Any advie

it was unable to upgrade to 7.3.2
and kept getting connection failed
connection lost
Your problems could be due to interference on the channel you're using, although this may not be the entire cause. Nonetheless, since your setup worked fine before and you haven't changed anything, suggest you start by seeing whether a good signal can be restored.
Use [iStumbler|http://istumbler.net] to look for a channel that's at least 3 different from any your neighbors may be using, then set your AirPort Express (AX) to that channel and reconnect to it. If you don't get full bars in the AirPort icon, try another open channel.

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