Saving my itunes libary to a hard drive attached to my Time Capsule?

Hi there
I hope to not make this into a long story but I do have a question I am not completely sure about. I have searched high and low in these forums and the iTunes forums for my answer and can not find anything, so sorry in advance if this sort of question has been answered anywhere else!
I have a network all set up at home with my Time Capsule attached to my cable modem set up to create a wireless network. I then have an apple TV, my mac mini and 2 airport expresses attached wirelessly to the network (all n devises)set up to join a wireless network. I have set the network up so that it shows two different networks for the 5GHz band and 2.4GHz as some of my devises was not connecting to the 5GHz band even though the signal was great for that band (getting single to noise ratio of 40+ for my apple TV and one of my airport expresses and transfer rates of 270mbps on the 5GHz band).
The signal to my mac mini which is in another room is not so good at all on either the 5GHz band or 2.4GHz (signal to noise ratio normally around 10-15 on both bands). There is a lot of interference as I live in a block of flats that has about 6 other wireless networks and obviously my walls and furniture etc... These things I can not do anything about and I am not overly bothered about it as I am normally getting transfer rates of about 70mbps for my mac mini, sometimes up to 100mbps but doesn't stay there for long. But it does quite regular drop down to 50mbps sometimes lower. Now my internet speed is 10mbps so there isnt a problem there.
My problem comes that when I want to sync movies/TV shows between my mac mini and apple TV and use air tunes to stream music to my kitchen. The syncing of data takes a long time and I get regular drop outs with my airport express when streaming music. I am guessing seen as my iTunes library is stored on an external fire wire 800 HD to my mac mini that the signal problems and transfer rates from my mac mini is the bottle neck. I would like to be able to sync between my apple TV and mac mini quicker (utilizes the full speed of the network seen as my apple TV has transfer rates of 270mbps) and stop the drop outs with the airport express in the kitchen (this is the airport express that has the signal to noise ratio of 40+ and transfer rates of 270mbps).
So my questions is, if I ran an eithernet cable through my flat and attached my mac mini to the time capsule with that, will it improve the syncing times of my iTunes data between the mac mini and apple tv and help stop the drop outs when streaming through air tunes to the airport express. Or can I attached an external hard drive to the time capsule, set it us as a network drive and then set that drive in the iTunes preferences as where to where its media folder is?
Thanks in advance for your help.

speachmusic wrote:
if I ran an eithernet cable through my flat
you could do that - or you could employ a pair of *powerline adapters* _*such as these*_.
either way, as William pointed out, it will boost syncing speed and improve reliability.
Or can I attached an external hard drive to the time capsule, set it us as a network drive and then set that drive in the iTunes preferences as where to where its media folder is?
yes. my test iTunes library lives on an external HD hanging off my TC and, using a hardwired connection, data transfer speeds are more than sufficient for what you intend to do.
in fact, i would recommend the external drive connected to the TC over using the TC itself. one reason is that you will not be able to backup what is on the TC's drive using time machine. also, if the TC croaks and needs to be replaced, it will be difficult to retrieve the data from it.
an external HD, otoh, could be connected to you Mac periodically and backed up to another external HD using free apps such as _*Carbon Copy Cloner*_.
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