AirPort Express "boosting" wifi range

I am going to be using an AX to stream music from my office to the living room home stereo. I am not intending to use it as a wireless router because I already have a linksys I am happy with. So, without an ethernet cable plugged into the AX, will it "boost" the wifi signal at all? Or just put the streaming music to the stereo and have no effect on the wifi signal itself.

While the Airport Express can be used to extend the range of some wireless networks using WDS, it requires a third party firmware for your Linksys router, and the antenna on the Airport Express really isn't that great.
I'd look at higher power antennas for your existing base station. I don't know where to suggest you look, as all my suppliers are Australian. You're looking for something with an RP-TNC connection.

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