Apple Airport Express disappears

Hello,
I do not think you live in the Bermuda Triangle and it is normal that my Airport Express disappears No, unfortunately not.
I would like to use my AE to stream music, they've also integrated it with the Airport utility into an existing wireless network.
10min long this works well, music will play properly, then "disappear", AE, and I can not in iTunes, select speakers, yet she finds the Airport Utility.
Oddly enough, the pilot light is lit on the AE still green ie actually it should work.
I use a router ASUS RT-N56U and use Windows 7
Airport Utility software version 5.5.3
iTunes version 10.5.2.11
p.s. Sorry for my bad english, it comes from Google Translate german-englisch :-)

See if this doesn't help.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302153
Cheers Don

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