Airport Express Signal Weakness after Firmware 7.5.2 upgrade

I was trying to update my firmware on my Samsung Blu-Ray player b/c the menu was faulty, then I noticed it was not detecting my wireless network from my Airport Express that was clearly visible to my iPad and Mac Book Pro. So I went ahead and also updated my firmware for the Airport Express at the same time to 7.5.2 because it kept telling me it was needed.
Now with the new firmware, my wireless network is often not detected by my iPad and MacBook Pro if they are downstairs and 1 room over and is very slow when they do connect. I used AirRadar to sense if it was maybe getting some noise from another neighbor's network, or on the same channel, and neither was the case. I tried changing channels just in case to 8, but still only 35-39% strength downstairs or 25 feet away (but 95% in same room). I also tried changing to broadcasting at only 2.4 Ghz and 5 Ghz and neither seemed to work better.
So my question is- could the new firmware decrease signal strength? Can I go back to my old one? If so, I tried changing firmware versions but it won't allow me to select it as a drop down.
Any other ideas? The iPad used to be so fast. Now we can't use any web-based apps downstairs.

I found the same after a recent upgrade. After trying different things, I reverted to the previous software and all was fine. I lost 50% of my signal with the new upgrade, hardly an improvement. I wish you well.
Mike

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At the next hang of the AirPort Express and after a factory reset, I tried to revert to firmware 7.6 (AirPort Utility 5.6 > Base Station > Upoad Firmware… > select firmware from a list of available versions). After a while, it failed with the following error message:
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