Airport express, Bt Homehub, Xbox Live

Ok, a quick brief, i have the following hardware
-Bt Homehub
-Airport Express
-D-Link router (not in use, not a wireless either)
-Xbox 360
-iBook g4
-Belkin 54g Wireless Network Adapter
ok excuse my ignorance as i am not the biggest techie in the world.
i am looking to connect my xbox360 to the internet for xbox live, not a problem if i can keep it next to my Homehub (i can connect via ethernet)
The problem i have is, my xbox is to be moved into my bedroom, it is not feasable to trail ethernet cable through the house.
I have a wireless network running through the BT Homehub, currently the Airport Express is laying dormant.
I will have my iBook next to my xbox360 on my desk.
Does anyone have any idea's if at all possible that i can connect my xbox360 using my current hardware to my wireless network.
I have tried various things but have not succeded.
I look forward to any criticism's, suggestions etc.

Your issue was double NAT.. and the lack of upnp in the airport time capsule products to open ports to those devices. With the TC in bridge you now have a single router the BT home hub in your case, which is fully upnp aware. This is so important when trying to run multiple game consoles as you cannot manually port forward in that situation.
Let me add, with some of the latest games like black ops or mw3 you may still have issues. It depends which home hub you have as there are several with latest ones now sourced from manufacturers other than Thomson. All the Thomson based devices have issues with full CONE nat and forwarding of udp packets. There are special cone bind commands.
See this post for details.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1739702
Port forwarding is a plague on the internet and the sooner we move to ipv6 the better although I have no doubt the process will be extremely painful. NAT is a kludge that results in all sorts of errors and issues.

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