How do I get AirPort Express to work with my iPhone 4s?

Hey there,
I installed AirPort Express yesterday to make a wifi network out of the ethernet access that I have. It worked perfectly fine with my MacBook but my iPhone 4s does not seem to be able to hold on to the network! I can connect to the network and the wifi sign appears on the iPhone screen but after about 10 seconds it disappears again... and then it comes on again... and disappears again...
Does anyone have the same problem? What can I do to resolve this?
Thank you a lot for your answers in advance!

Thanks for your help III
BUT: I really don't get it! About ten days ago or so my iPhone 4s was suddenly able to hold on to the AirPort Express network.
But then yesterday all of a sudden the problem was back again!!! I didn't do ANYTHING! It was just back out of nowhere!
Wi-Fi connection on my iPhone came on... and off... and on... and so on, while my MacBook was working perfectly fine with the network!
So I reset the whole thing again on my MacBook with the AirPort utility, I reset the AirPort Express and I reset my iPhone... still not working... Honestly this freaks me out. Especially because it worked for more than a week and as I said I did not change a thing!!!
Does anyone have any ideas how to solve the problem other then reset everything? Or is there an explanation around for this occurence???
Thanks for your Help!

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