Time capsule and adding additional router in my house

My time capsule router unfortunatly does not supply my entire house with a good signal.  If I place it by my main IMac my kids stuff on the other side of the house and basement gets a poor signal.  If I move the router to the other side of the house then the kids stuff works and my computers do not.  If I purchase an Airport express and run a hard line from my Time Capsule to it on the other side of the house will this pretty much take care of the issues and will I have any issues with the airport express and TC on the same network?  I have tried other signal boosters but didnt really have any success with them.  Any other suggestions?
Thank you

Yes, an Express and the TC with ethernet is fine.. But any wireless router should run in this configuration .. you are not setting it up as WAP only but as router .. use wan bypass.. sorry instructions are on another site but are pretty clear.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=933517

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