Airport Express connected over Wifi to my main router used as an extender

Hello!
My existent home network is designed as follow:
Ground floor - I have a cable modem with Wifi capability (here I have too a Linksys WRT120N. Not solved the poor wifi signal on 2nd floor tough)
First floor - It's there my MacBook Pro that connects to my Wifi properly as all other devices (iphone, ipad etc)
Second floor - No way to get a good Wifi signal
So, I just bought an Airport Express and I`ve been trying to set it up as an extender to improve the Wifi signal on room three. My intention would be to get it located on the room 2 connected over the Wifi to either the main router or Linksys. However it's not working yet. Is that possible to implement it on this way? Any advice to make these gadgets to work all together?
Thanks.
Alexandre

First of all thanks Tesserax. Let me try to explain what I have at the moment and what I've targeting.
1st level -> a cable modem that's the main router connected to the Internet. At this point I've connected my Linksys (LAN port) to the cable modem (WAN port) in order to try to get the Wifi signal improved to the other levels.
2nd level -> where I leave my MacBook Pro and the Wifi signal at this level from the Linksys is OK
3nd level -> poor Wifi
Having said that, I have the following routers available at home: Cable Modem, Linksys WRT120N, Aiport Express and also a TP-Link WA-281. It seems that all these stuff does not work together tough (:- based on previous answers due compability between all of them.
So, I was trying to connect the Aiport Express to the MacBook on the 2nd level to improve the Wifi signal for the top floor.
Thanks,
Alexandre

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