Itunes playback over airport choppy when anything else running

Hi,
I have my iTunes library stored on a Lacie Big Disk connected by USB to my Airport Extreme 802.11n. My speakers are wirelessly connected to an Airport Express used as an extender. The setup works fine if nothing else is running, but if I turn on bittorrent, for example, it chops up and becomes unusable. This happens even when monitoring the speed of bittorrent shows less than 100k combined up and down. Any suggestions for why my 300 Mbit/s gets clogged by 100k of traffic? Thanks a lot.

Some additional information, perhaps: the Time Capsule icon remains on my MacBook's desktop after the hourly backup is made. When I manually eject it, the interruptions are fewer and only happen when either my MacBook or my iMac are backed up.
So perhaps question #2: why does the TC icon remain on my MacBook's desktop, while it doesn't on my iMac's?

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