Airport express needs restarting daily

hello, i've recently got a new router to which my airport express is connected. since getting it, i find that in the evening, my broadband speed dips to about 20% of what it should be. restarting the airport express makes the speed go back to normal.
any ideas why this might be? i'm not sure anything in particular happens to cause it - it just dips every evening and a restart makes it happy again.
thanks.

i just went out and bought a brand new router to see if that resolves the issue - and it doesn't. i started, having installed the new router, by going to speedtest.net and testing the speed, it was about 15mb. four hours later it was down to about 1; restarting the airport express made it go back up to about 10.
any suggestion?

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