2 Airports and 4 Air Disks - Advice before I buy

Hi all,
A little bit of background. My wife and I are both film buffs and have stacks of DVDs. Quite often we watch a movie in bed using our laptop streaming MP4 files. Works well. However, I have quite a lot of external HDDs hanging off my lovely iMac and this defeats the purpose of the beautiful design
Here is what I have: downstairs: broadband and an airport extreme.
Here is what I would like to do: broadband and airport extreme downstairs. A further extreme in my spare room with 4 air disks attached for backups and streaming movies to any of my machines. Furthermore, I would like the two extremes and their disks to be seen as one both from a wireless connection point of view and also access to the air disks.
What I mean is can I connect to my extreme downstairs and still access my air disks on my second extreme upstairs and can I connect to my extreme upstairs and access my broadband downstairs.
Sorry it is a bit long winded but want to make sure I explain why I want this: my wife does not want our living room looking like a plate of spaggetti made of USB leads.
Regards
SteveGB13

You could get a second Airport Extreme Base Station, configure it as a remote base station, and configure your existing Base Station as a main base station. You would then have a single wireless network with everything on it accessible from anywhere.
A few other considerations:
1. What is the total amount of file storage you need? You might consider getting the newly released Airport Time Capsule. It has a built in 1TB hard drive, which might be sufficient for all your needs.
2. The performance (with video streaming) is an unknown until you set this all up. The main/remote base station setup I described above will reduce by half your wireless network's maximum possible data rate, which could be significant for video streaming performance.

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