3 set of speakers

I have a bit of a strange one I think.
I have a set of speakers set up in our bathroom, hard wired
Another set in the living room wireless. And I want to set up a third in
My workshop. Now I am thing of making all sets wireless can I then have the music from my iMac play through all 3 sets at the same time? I would be using an express at each one. I hope this makes sense
iBook12" G4, 'Minimac superdrive G4, intel iMac 17" Mac OS X (10.4.7) all have 1 gig ram

Theoretically yes this should work. iTunes supports playing audio through multiple AX's simultaneously. However, you might run in to problems...
I tried the same thing with a Linksys as my main router and I couldn't make the connection to my AX. The difference is that when streaming to multiple AXs, iTunes sets up UDP connections verses a TCP connection when streaming to only one. For some reason my Linksys was not able to maintain that connection with the AX. I ended up have to get an AEBS as my main router. It probably would have worked if I swapped out the Linksys for another AX.
The best thing you can do is test it out and see if it works with your model of 3com. If you only have 1 AX right now, you can test it by using your iMac and the AX as the multiple speakers. The result should be the same with multiple AXs.
Good luck!
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