Expanding BT HomeHub (g) with Airport Extreme (n) and Airport Expresses (g)

Hi - I hope someone can help me... My brother has recently moved house and has asked me to set him up a cool wireless network. This is what he has already:
Intel MacBook Laptop (g & n)
PPC G4 Laptop (g)
BT HomeHub (Router (g))
Airport Extreme (n)
Airport Express (g)
iPhone (g)
I have currently setup the BT HomeHub as the main router and that is working fine - yet due to his house been quite sizable the signal is very weak in most rooms. I was hoping to wirelessly connect the Airport Extreme and place that in a seperate room from the router (BT HomeHub) and use WDS to expand the signal, yet I'm really struggling setting this up (Is this even possible?).
FYI, Due to him having a iPhone and a PPC, I need to keep the network on a 802.11G.
On top of this, I then would like to add a number of airport Expresses to also expand the signal via WDS and others to connect to media players to play music via airtunes.
I was hoping someone could help me with setting this up etc. Do I need to do anything special etc.
Many thanks.
Nick

Hello Mally505. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
I was hoping to wirelessly connect the Airport Extreme and place that in a seperate room from the router (BT HomeHub) and use WDS to expand the signal, yet I'm really struggling setting this up (Is this even possible?).
Unfortunately, most likely not as very few non-AirPort routers are WDS-compatible with the AirPort and vice versa. However, you could connect the 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn) directly to one of your BT HomeHub's LAN ports via an Ethernet cable, and then, create a WDS between the AEBSn and the 802.11g AirPort Express Base Station (AX).

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