AirPort Express losing connection to the internet when part of WDS

Hi,
I have an AirPort Extreme Baste Station (802.11n) and an AirPort Express Base Station. I have set the Express to extend the wireless signal via WDS. However, after a while the internet connection seems to drop. My computer still tells me I have full signal, and AirPort utility reports no problems, but there just isn't a connection to the internet! If I turn off the Express and then turn off AirPort on my computer, and turn it back on again, I can access the weak Extreme signal.
This is very frustrating. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas to what the problem could be?
Thanks very much.

I had been experiencing the same problem -- Airport Express extending an Aiport Extreme N base station via WDS constantly dropping the connection, but still showing solid green on the LED. I'm also using the WPA/WPA2 Personal encryption scheme over the whole network, and don't want to use no encryption at all or use WEP (which is pretty much the same as no encryption at all).
Anyway, I seem to have found a solution that works on my system at least. After I made the change outlined below, my connection has been up and running for 5 days now after losing the connection about once every 3 hours or so before that:
1. Open the Aiport Utility, click on the AEXN base station, and click Manual Setup.
2. Click the Advanced icon in the toolbar.
3. Click the IPv6 tab.
4. From the IPv6 drop-down menu, select Link-local only.
5. Click Update.
The AEXN base station will restart with the new settings. You may also have to unplug the Airport Express WDS remote, and plug it back in after the AEXN base station has restarted.
You also might want to change the radio channel on both the base station and the Airport Express to use channel 11.

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