Music streaming drops, wifi still excellent

Hi
I have a problem on my airport express when listening to music. Quite often when i browse in itunes on my iphone or mac, it seems like i loose my connection to stream music, this also can occur when i pause music and after a while restart. Only solution on mac is close itunes, on iphone same tricks works when ur lucky but it happens i need to restart phone.
During all of this wifi signal remains excellent ( AE is set as wireless acess point), but the fact that i need to restart itunes makes me believe WIFi is not the problem here.
Any suggestions i'm having latest version of the itunes on both devices.
Regards, Kris

Both apps require a lot of bandwidth so you may have a problem within your local area network. Meaning you may not have enough bandwidth reaching the devices or some other situation. Because neither products are Apple products and we don't have access to your system I'd recommend contacting the developers and see if they have some specific trouble shooting you can do. If you have a network specialist in your community (a professional not your nephew or your neighbors 15 year old son) you also might consider calling them in.
We had a similar issue at my house which was due to the Wi-Fi signal being too far away from the device which meant we had to get a Wi-Fi extender to boost the signal. Without knowing a thing about your environment recommend getting someone that knows more about networking involved.

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