AirPort Express - slow internet

Hi!
I bought an AirPort Express and conected it with my MacBook. My internet conection speed was very good before I did it (conected AirPort). Now, internet speed dropped very much.
What is wrong , where can i find some help?

I had a similar problem. My Airport Extreme takes internet signals from a cable modem and distributes over a wifi network extended by two Airport Expresses. I noticed a big slowdown when loading web pages on my iMac. My wife's iMac was downloading at better than 6 mps. When I bypassed the wifi and connected my iMac directly to the modem, I got 6 mps. I unplugged the two Airport Expresses and got 6 mps on my iMac. When I plugged in one of the Airport Expresses, my download speed fell to 100 kps. I moved my iMac into the same room as my wife's iMac. I got 150 kbs on my machine and 6 mps on my wife's. Then I changed the channel from 1 to 6 on the Airport Extreme and the Airport Expresses. That solved the problem. I conclude that I was getting some radio interference on channel 1, probably from the numerous wireless appliances around our house (telephone, weather station, solar power inverter data logging). I don't know why the presence of an active Airport Express caused the problem.

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