Airport Extreme Slow Wifi Network

Hi All,
I have a airport extreme setup as the Wireless access port to a network. The LAN network is a Gigabit network. When I ping the server/router via the network I do get a ping of 0.400ms. However when we go via the Wifi the airport extreme give us connect of a very high ping.
Ping has started…
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=8.471 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=2.605 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=2.419 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=2.780 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=3.030 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=128 time=1.914 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 6
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=128 time=2.348 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=128 time=2.220 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=128 time=12.246 ms
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 9 packets received, 10.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.914/4.226/12.246/3.410 ms
We have changed the CH to 1,6,11 but still the same problem. We have tried the settings on more than one Airport Extreme.
Just to recap. The ADSL(Internet) Router is giving DCHP address via the LAN network to the Airport Extreme. The Airport is connected to the LAN via the WAN port.
Any advise will be great!!

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