Home wireless network keeps "timing out." Help!

I currently have an eMac with a wired connection to an AirPort Extreme base station that creates a wireless network in my home with Time Warner Road Runner. I also have an Airport Express that acts as a relay station.
For some reason lately, the wireless internet connection is S-L-O-W and often I can't load a page and get the message "network connection timed out, server may be busy." The wireless signal is excellent and I've restarted both the Base Station as well as the Express but no luck. I use a G4 PowerBook and my wife uses an iBook and the problem occurs on both
The wired connection works great.
Can anyone help me figure out what's going on? Thanks for any help.
Sunil
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I'm running into a simiar situation with Time Warner Road Runner. I have 3 PCs with a wired connection to a linksys router that creates a wireless network for my MacBook.
For the first 4 days the wireless network worked great. I could access the internet from anywhere in the house on my MacBook. On the 5th day I couldn't connect to the internet on my MacBook. I've power cycled the cable modem and the router, updated the router firmware and even called Apple Care. No one has an answer. Like you, my wired connections work just fine. And the wireless signal is great. The MacBook can see the wireless network and get on it but cannot connect to the internet through it.
I believe it may be a DHCP lease renewal issue for the IP address. The MacBook doesn't show an IP address in its Network Configurations for the router. My network locations keep resetting their port priorities to bluetooth instead of airport and everytime I do a diagnostic I get a message that says "another program has changed your network configurations, click ok to continue". But I don't have any answers.
Maybe someone out there does?

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