AirPort Extreme, AirPort Express, and Xbox 360

Perhaps someone's already posted a question about this, but I couldn't find a specific post that addressed my questions. I recently bought an Xbox for my stepson and hope to use an AirPort Express to connect it to my home network, which is built around an AirPort Extreme Base Station. Anyone out there done this? Can anyone share how they set theirs up?
Thanks in advance!

Hi.
I set up the same configuration proposed by Henry.
My Airport Extreme is cabled to the Netgear ADSL Router. Airport Express is configured in WDS mode together with Airport Extreme and both are in bridge mode (DHCP disabled). Then, the Xbox 360 is connected with ethernet cable to the Airport Express. Finally, I set up the Airport express and extreme IP address as static. In this way, I have only one wireless network and the IP address is given by the Netgear Router for all hosts (Xbox 360 too), other than Airport base stations, which are always reachable with their static IP address.
I hope this description will be helpful.
Bye,
Francesco

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