Which is better, antenna or bridge?

System is an Airport Extreme Base Station & Airport Express for Air Tunes. The Express is too far away. Is an antenna on the Extreme a better solution than adding an Extreme relay, keeping performance in mind?

As you are aware throughput and signal strength are directly related. A WDS has a couple of disadvantages:
1) For each base station added, the overall wireless bandwidth is reduced in half. Since throughput is measure of actual traffic passing within that bandwidth, it is effected as well.
2) The remote/relay base station in a WDS does NOT boost the signal. At best, it will repeat the signal at the same level it receives it.
Regardless of whether you employ an external antenna or use a WDS, both will be affected by Wi-Fi interference. Some of this interference you can control, others like building construction, a neighbor's Wi-Fi, etc., you will not.
I suggest that you perform a site survey using a free utility like iStumbler. Measure the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) values at points at and between the base stations. Where the SNR has a value of 20+ dBM is where you can expect reasonable performance from the base station. Anything less than that would be undesirable, especially for streaming audio.

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