Night and Day connection with Airport Express

I have a cable modem (Motorolla SB5101) connected to an Airport Express (non N version). The Express is feeding out to 3 macbook pros and an iMac. During the day I will get pretty much all or nothing in terms of internet connection. It is not only selective by time, but also by content. I could type google.com into one safari tab and yahoo.com into the other; one might load instantly (I have a 10Mbps connection btw) and the other might just sit indefinitely. Typically when this happens I just give it a second and it retries and figures it out. Not so today. I've tried reseting the modem, the airport, changing the channel on the airport, adding DNS server addresses to each computer....no luck. It usually fixes the problem for a few minutes when i fiddle with it and then goes back to failing.
If it's any help, it seems to always stop working when I'm just about to pay my credit card bill online or lookup information for someone while on the phone... haha
It happens on all 4 computers randomly too. So is it my internet provider or my airport?

Welcome to the discussions!
"During the day I will get pretty much all or nothing in terms of internet connection" and "So is it my internet provider or my airport?"
It may be interference on your network that is not caused by either your internet provider or the airport.
Please download iStumbler, www.istumbler.net, so that you can get a look at your wireless signal strength and noise. In addition, note other networks in your vicinity that may be interfering with your signal. Look in particular for any networks that are on the same channel or a close adjacent channel.
Cordless phones there or at the neighbors? Can be a nightmare since they use the same 2.4 GHz frequency that most wireless networks use. If you have them, turn them all off for a few hours to see if that makes a difference.
Microwave ovens, other computers, television sets...all are known to be possible causes of wireless interference.
Do some investigation. How crowded is the airspace around you?

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.....doesn't that seems to suggest the modem?
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First thing to check is how much competition you have for the airways in your area.
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