Can airport extreme extend the signal of my wifi network?

or this can only be done with airport expresses??
my house has real thick walls

Tesserax,
I have the 5th gen Time capsule, 1st gen airport extreme and airport express.
Up to now with lots of difficulties, I managed to setup Time capsule in a bridge mode.
(The only way was to have initial setup of TC without WAN cable connetcted)
Afterwards I extened my network with the airport express, but having problems with the extreme.
Setting up to extend the network from TC, after rebooting the extreme is not getting the right IP address from TC and it is not able to extend the network.
Any ideas?

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ladybastet, let's clean up some terminology. You should designate only one router for your network. At present that is the Linksys. Your wireless access point is the Express, and it gets its network connection from the Linksys. Is that correct?
If I put it next to the iMac when it has full 4 bars the iPad gets maybe 2. The iPad has full bars if next to the router.
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I'm not sure I understand. Is one Ethernet cable going to two places? What is it connected to, precisely?
Right now the Airport is wired to the router. Is this necessary for it to be a part of the network?
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I had considered moving the iMac and using it as a base station to free the Airport Express for other duty but where I want to move it is further away from the living room.
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I am experiencing slow wifi transmission between my notebooks and my base stations and I am hoping someone can help me fix it.
My wifi configuration is the following:
1 Airport Extreme base station (acting as router, wifi "creator" and DHCP server)
1 Airport Express base station (connected to Airport Extreme with a LAN cable, set up to extend wireless network)
1 Lenovo T410 notebook with Intel Centrino Ultimate N-6300 AGN WiFi antenna (I will call this one "Lenovo"), connected to wireless network, running Windows 7
1 MacBook Pro purchased in 2009 (I will call this one "Mac"), connected to wireless network, running Mac OS X Lion
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From my experience of setting up the Airport WiFi for family members and friends, I have learnt the following :-
1. Airport Express is not as good as Airport Extreme, for being as extender, the difference can be quite a lot.
2. There is always a dead cornor (bad reception) in a house
3. Even moving the Airport Extreme / AE a few inches, the performance can be improved quite significant
4. If possible, always choose 5G 802.11n than 2.4G, unless there are many thick walls.
My suggestion will be as follows :
1. Moving out the AEBS out of a closet, is a good idea
2. Always try to locate the AEBS in the centre of a area, instead of the two sides
3. Try to test the AEBS without an extender, and find the best location area (don't place on the floor, neither above 6 feet height)
4. After finding a best location, set the extender closer to the AEBS, and then moving apart from it (check the performance after every move), it is better that both devices can face each other.
5. I can't tell you the reason, and some people may not agree with me, the new 2013 Airport Exteme performance is better and may be is a good idea to replace your Airport Express, and use it to connect with your router, and old AEBS as an extender
6. Some Powerlinks (in case you can't use a wired ethernet connection between the two devices) work and some don't work with Apple Airport products, therefore, if possible, have an option to return them to the shop if they do not match
Good luck

Can I use an American Airport Extreme in the UK?

Hi guys,
I bought an Airport Extreme in the US sometime ago. I never managed to get it to work and gave up. My Wireless has gone down so I thought I would give it another go. Still can't get it to work.
Will a USA airport extreme work in UK?
I have updated firmware to version 7.4.2
The big issue I think is on the wireless options page I can only select America, Canada or a bunch of South American counties. Do the US have different wifi signals to UK?
Is there anyway of over writing the firmware with UK firmware?
Is it not any of the above and maybe I am just setting it up wrong?
Please help,
thanks.
Jamie

Welcome to the discussions!
+Will a USA airport extreme work in UK?+
Yes
+Do the US have different wifi signals to UK?+
Yes. UK uses channels 1-13. US uses 1-11. You won't be able to use 12 and 13 on your AirPort Extreme. I'm not sure about 5 GHz channels if you plan to use that frequency.
+Is there anyway of over writing the firmware with UK firmware?+
No
+maybe I am just setting it up wrong?+
If you can tell us what modem (make and model number) you are using with the AirPort Extreme, we may be able to help with the setup.

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