Music stable with mac, but not mobile devices?

I recently got a new sound dock and got a brand new airport express with it so I can control the dock from anywhere in the house.
After setting up the airport using our Macbook Pro, I started streaming music perfectly fine from iTunes on the mac. To kind of show off the new toy to my wife, I started streaming music using my iphone 5. The music was cutting in and out like crazy. I changed to her iphone 4S and it continued to cut out like crazy. I even pulled out my oldschool ipod touch, and it continued to cut out.
So I am trying to figure out why there doesn't seem to be any issues whatsoever using the airport express from my mac, but all of my mobile devices have intermittent issues?
All devices have the most updated software that I can find.
The only thing I can think of is the connection to the network is weaker on the mobile devices than it might be on the macbook? They are all using Wi-Fi to my home network. So going by that,  the aiport/dock/macbook all seem to have it figured out perfectly so something is working.
Am I missing some setting that is causing network lag on the mobile devices but not the mac?

The single biggest mistake in your analysis is assuming that if Windows (or a Wii or an iPhone or whatever other device) can connect, your router is not to blame.
Though devices are designed to standards, there can be errors in implementing those standards or even simple software bugs that come into play.
The example I've used over and over again is say there is a bug where when the router is asked to add "2 + 3" it answers "5" but when asked to add "3 + 2" it answers "6."
If Windows only ever adds "2 + 3" but Mac OS X adds "3 + 2," it's not Apple's fault the router is incorrectly responding "6" in the later case.
But let's start with easier questions:
1) Are you sure that no proxy is being used if one shouldn't be, and vice-versa?
2) Are the DNS addresses shown in your TCP/IP settings the same regardless of whether you are connected via AirPort or Ethernet?
3) Could there be some interference in the area you are using your Mac? Recall also that Mac and Windows PCs use different antenna designs, so what interferes with one may not affect the other.

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