AirPort Extreme and AirPort Express and STILL lag in Battlefield

Hello,
I recently purchased an AirPort Express, hoping to increase speeds of my wifi (currently getting around 10-13 mbps) so when I play Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on my Xbox 360 on Live, I wouldn't lag out.
Well, it did nothing. The Express is plugged in directly behind the XBox 360, so I can run ethernet to the AirPort and give my Xbox an N signal. That didn't help. So I disconnected the ethernet and hoped maybe the wireless would be fast for some reason. Well, I still lag through the match (not consistently, but at least several times each match I attempt to play) and 2/3 games I don't even get to finish because it kicks me out. I've considered going through the trouble of port forwarding but the last time I tried that, I saw no difference and thought I may have done something wrong. If there are any suggestions or very accurate walkthroughs for port forwarding, setting up a DMZ/default host, etc., let me know please. I'd love to enjoy my games on Xbox. But something tells me these Airp

If you want to try wireless again, you can give this a shot. I just discovered it, and it seems to have solved issues for me.
Open AirPort Utility; select your Extreme and/or Express and choose manual setup.
Click >Wireless
Change Radio Mode to 802.11a/n - 802.11b/g
Click >Wireless Network Options
Change Transmit Power to 50%
Check >Use interference robustness < This step is purely optional. It's worth a shot.
I've been noticing issues with performance of my Time Capsule for a while.
It really started with lack of good range, followed by lousy performance with my iPhone 4 and iPad 2. I was lucky to get 10% of what my speed really is (1.5 Mbps vs. 15.9 Mbps). My iMac was the only thing that seemed unaffected.
I attempted to setup a Sony Media Player (stay away from them- junk!) then a Roku XD in my bedroom only 20' down the hall from the Time Capsule (direct line of sight). Signal kept dropping and performance was lousy for both. I want another new Apple TV for the bedroom, but that TV doesn't have an HDMI port. I ended up running an ethernet cable down the hall... until this morning.
After some digging, I found a forum talking about WiFi performance for iPhones and stumbled upon something kinda basically unrelated, but gave me the idea to dig into AirPort Utility a bit deeper. Changing power to 50% didn't sound logical, but lowering output power was mentioned in the forum. AirPort Utility goes from 100% to 50% then lower. Nothing between 50% and 100%. I'll know more about range later today, but I have a feeling it may be mysteriously improved as well.
Hope it works out for you!

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