Airport Express disconnects non-Macs

My Airport Express network has been working flawlessly for my MacBook Pro, including Airplay. However, my work PC and Android phone both experience frequent loss of internet. During this time, they both register still being connected to the network, but have no access to webpages or VPNs.
I read a suggestion to change my security type to TKIP rather than AES, so I set up the guest network with WPA/WPA2 TKIP and the issue has persisted. Any thoughts out there?

I just wanted to echo the problem. I also have occasional disappearances of the AirPort Express, completely without reason. I'll be using the internet, or not...listening to music, or not...and poof, all signal bars are gone, no more connection between the computer and the AE. The LED on the AE stays green, indicating no problem.
I do a soft reset on the AE. Still not appearing. I shutdown, wait, and restart the computer. Nothing. I have to do a hard reset on the unit to get it to be "seen" by the computer again, and set up the AE and my wireless network from scratch. Annoying and frustrating.
This tends to happen about once or twice a week.
I guess it wouldn't bother me so much if I didn't have to re-enter all the Airport Express settings/passwords each and every time.
Any ideas?

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