Preventing users access to airport extreme

I have a network with airport extreme n and one airport express running DSL 6.0... We are using this for our apartment building and providing wireless internet... The problem is some users are using very slow usb cards and affecting the high speed internet... Its barely as fast as dial up... When I check the wireless users in airport utility there is one client with a rate of 1 sometimes -1... If this user is on it slows the airport speed to almost the point of not being able to use it... Most of the other users are at 56 to 130 rate... Is there a way to block this client??? I don't want to change the password and make everyone go thru that...
Thanks for any help...

One way would be to determine the wireless MAC address of this client by using the Logs & Statistics feature of the AirPort Utility, and then, use the Access Control > Timed Access feature to restrict or deny their access.

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i can not thank you enough for taking the time time to help me!!! i really appreciate it.... i have done the set up with the d link router and am now trying to access the camera from the web.... but i am having trouble logging in and finding it? i am not sure what ip address to enter into my web browser? i think that i need to add the ip addresss folllowed by a forward slash and then the port # 80.... but what ip address should i add? in the device info part of the d link router i have found a number of ip address's... but none of them seem to work? what am i doing wrong? or not doing? my apple base station is set up in the bridge mode with a password to protect it...
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