Two airport express not seen by iPhone

I have two airport express units in my house. They partecipate in my home wifi network. From my iMac (10.7.4) I see them without problems both from the airport utility (6.1) which shows them having version 7.6.1 firmware. From the iMac they also appear as speakers in iTunes.
Problem is that from my iPhone 4S running IOS 5.1.1 neither the airport utility, nor Music, show those aiirport express units (the iPhone for all others uses is correctly connected to the home network).
Same happens from my wife's iPhone 4 running 5.1.1
What can I try ?
PS With previous software levels things used to work flawlessly. Now even the playback from the iMac's iTunes from times to times drops the connection. This is fixed by closing iTunes and restrting it.

Problem solved. It was my wireless router setup which had an option to prevent wireless devices connecting to exchange data between themselves. Deselecting this option made the iphone see the airports after I inactivated IPv6 networking.

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