How do I use my Airport Express 1st generation to extend my wireless network?

Hi all,
I've got an old time capsule (1st gen) and a 1st gen airport express in another room with a USB printer connected.
There's up to 100 meg broadband from a virgin hub, but that is connected by ethernet to my time capsule.  I then configured the time capsule to be a WDS base, and the airport express to be a WDS remote.
That all worked OK.
But the internet is incredibly slow in the office (where the Airport Express is).  Pages do load eventually, but VERY slowly!
I asked in the apple store if it was necessary to buy new stuff, because the internet is so slow, and the guy said that the system should work if I am using the airport express to extend the network.
I reset everything, and reconfigured as above, and it is still painfully slow.
Any ideas?
I don't mind ditching the time capsule as a base station and just having the AP extending the virgin hub if that'll work - or ditching the AP and using the time capsule to extend the virgin hub....or buying a new airport express and extending the virgin hub...I jsut want fast internet in my office room!
Thanks in advance!

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