Best way to extend wireless LAN into neighboring cottage

Greetings wireless gurus...
I have an existing wireless LAN set up in my house using an AEBS. It works very well. Now I'd like to extend coverage into a neighboring cottage.
There's about 25 feet of open space between the two structures. The AEBS is placed at the point inside the house closest to the cottage, so the signal currently must tunnel through 2 stucco walls. I currently get a mediocre signal within the cottage & would like to improve it. For various reasons, I don't want to run an Ethernet cable across the open space.
What do you recommend?
Should I buy an external antenna for the AEBS, perhaps mounting it somewhere on the outside wall of the house?
Should I install an AirPort Express somewhere inside the cottage?
As an additional complication, my AEBS is operating on channel 1 while I have neighbors who use channels 6 and 11; what channel should I operate a 2nd access point on?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards...
zenbum

Extending the wireless network with an Airport Express inside the cottage won't help - it would have the same problem picking up a signal that a Mac located inside the cottage has. To do any good, the Airport Express device would have to be located outside at some point midway between the house and the cottage. Clearly, an impractical solution.
An external antenna attached to the Base Station might help - see the products at http://www.quickertek.com/ . The external antennas sold via the Apple store provide disappointing performance according to most user reports here.
Another option, if the cottage derives its power supply connection from the main house, is to use the "HomePlug" power line networking solution. I'll leave it to you to research that option, which uses a method completely unrelated to WiFi wireless networking to distribute a wireless connection throughout a home via the existing electrical cables.

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