Airport Express-Apartment-Multiple Wireless Routers

I live in an apartment and there are many wireless routers within range of my MBP and APE. I often have problems with skipping songs while streaming iTunes and so I was wondering if there was a better way to set up my network.
Frankly I'm not well versed in this sort of thing. When I bought it I just pluged it in and went with what worked.
Any advice would help.

There are so many external factors that affect this answer.
Actual distance required ,
Type of structure, ( Interference ). This affects all Routers.
Overall ability of the product.
Airport Extreme and Airport Express have several other features that normal Routers do not offer. The ability of the Extreme as a Print Server
The ability of the Express as Streaming Audio there are several options that are in fact only Apple propritory.
The ability to use Express with Extreme to extend your Network.
That being said I live in a 3 story Victorian and I have used several different brands and all worked very well with 100% coverage, the best in my situation was the Airport Extreme Base for the Print Server capability, that allowed for wireless printing.
Bear in mind that all of the major manufactures offer very good products that work and work very well. You will find that buying the top of the line from any company, will be extremely hard to compare side by side, because all are good. Some just offer different features you may or maynot need.
Cheers Don

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