How do I know my airport express is working and doing what I want?

I have my airport express connected to the lan in my office at the far end of my house. The LAN runs to the wifi router supplied by my internet provider. I want the airport express to give me a better signal in the far reaches of my house. In the airport utlity I did the set up of the Base station and wireless screens and in the network screen have the Router Mode set as Off (Bridge Mode) - my airport express shows a nice green light. So far so good, I hope. However, when using my ipad or Macbook wirelessly I don't seem to get any better signal than when I didn't have the airport express. How does either of my devices choose to connect though my airport express rather than my wifi router and how do I know? Have I misunderstood something completely or not configured something correctly?
Thanks in advance.
Richard

I have my airport express connected to the lan in my office at the far end of my house. The LAN runs to the wifi router supplied by my internet provider.
So, the AirPort Express is connected back to the ISP router using a wired Ethernet cable connection, correct?
and....the AirPort Express has been configured to "create a wireless network" (not "extend a wireless network") and use the exact same wireless network name, wireless security and password as the ISP router, correct?
Most users get the name of the network and password correct, but often miss the wireless security setting. If the wireless security settings on both routers do not match up exactly, you wind up with two networks, and not one "big" network like you probably want.
and...the AirPort Express is configured to operate in Bridge Mode, correct?
If you can confirm these settings....especially the settings for "create a wireless network" and wireless security....then we are ready to do the next test. Please post back on your progress.

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