Airport Extreme - WDS 2x Airport Express - unstable

Hi,
I have extended my Wlan with 1x Airport Extreme (newest Firmware ...) and 2x Airport Express via WDS. In general, it works, but not stable. To monitor the configuration, I currently use Lithum (SNMP server) and the Airport Utility. From the SNMP point of view, I see Input errors on the ATH0 interface of the Airport Extreme box and snmp unavialability of one or both Airport Express routers.
In the Airport Utility I can see a bad signal strength (0db) in this situation.
1 Airport Express AP is only a few meters far of the Airport Xtreme, the other one is located downstairs. I adjusted the Wireless send power, Interface robustness (on all boxes, only Express...), no success.
Any suggestion?
Best regards
Henri

On basic principles, I would say it isn't surprising that your wireless network data transmission rates are poor. You have listed three major reasons already:
1. a WDS, which creates a significant performance penalty on a wireless network (up to as much as 50%)
2. signal path of 50 feet through two concrete walls (almost a worse-case scenario for WiFi communication)
3. the heavy bandwidth requirement of streaming music to seven wireless Zoneplayers

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