External HD on Wireless Network

I was wanting to get an Lacie 1TB Ethernet Big Disk and hook it to my base station.
My base station is configured as 802.11n(802.11b/g compatible) with an airport express connected to extend my network.
My question is:
I was wondering what king of transfer speeds would i get?
I deal with mainly photos and import and exporting Aperture projects from on computer to the other ranging in size from 164 MB to 3 GB. and backing up Aperture.
Thanks

If your AirPort Express (AX) is connected wirelessly using WDS to your AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS), your network is operating in 802.11g and the available bandwidth is cut in half.
Each WDS link cuts the bandwidth in half. So the maximum theoretical bandwidth available is 54/2 = 27 Mbps.
The wireless link is the slowest part of your current (and proposed) configuration.

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