Time capsule problems in mixed apple windows network

Hello
I am facing issues with my home network.
I am using a time capsule on the firm ware version 7.6, which is the newest to my knowledge (just updated)
I have setup my time capsule with costum name and password. Time machine is off at the moment.
I have setup a wireless network with costum name and password. I have not activated a guest network.
In the network we use one windows laptop running on windows xp and a mac book pro running snow leopard.
We both can acess the wireless network with our laptops. But the connection to the internet is shaky, Especially if there is another guest with a windows pc comming into the network (and we give him the network details) I loose connection to the internet for several days. Usually the issue resolves itself a couple of days after the guest has left.
What could cause such a problem?
Thank you in advance for your answers!
Wolfi

This type of question arises from time to time and is really hard to figure out.
If you restart the TC does the problem go away immediately?
What about if the TC is reset and redo the setup.. does it go?
If you connect via ethernet does the problem exist or is it purely wireless?
Does the PC that is added have a different computer name and different username and password on the local disk to yours?
Try doing a manual wireless configuration. Set channels to fixed value. Change the wireless name for 5ghz so it is different to 2.4ghz. See if that makes an improvement.

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