Airtunes cutting out wirelessly-trying ethernet connection-help

Ihave an Imac with a local wireless network to a lynksysN router-connected to a PC.( I use files betweent the PC and the Mac) I have two airport express-one for each stereo in the home and an apple TV. I get a lot of cut outs on airtunes....so since I have the abilty to wire the house I have put an ethernet cable from the Imac to the Lynksys router. Now my internet is faster on the Mac. Now how can I play my music on the Mac via the airport express devices. When I disable the airport to the router I no longer can see mutlitple speakers, or my apple TV in my itunes. All I really want is to have my airtunes work without cutting out. I know I have all the required hardware and I just don;t quite understand how to make it all work yet. Thanks

I am also streaming music using iTunes to an airport express from an airport extreme. I also have the music cutting in and out problem and may have just solved it tonight by changing the channel setting from the default automatic to a channel that doesn't seem to have interference. For me, that seems to be channel 1. Automatic was always picking channel 11 and that cut in and out.
BTW, my airport express is only 70' away, but downstairs and my floors are concrete. Anybody else have such short range?

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