Can I extend my wifi signal using an Airport Express to Airport Express?

My main wireless is an airport express that's about 6 years old. I recently purchased a new airport express (with 802.11n and airtunes) to extend my network range to the other side of the house but it doesn't seem to work. Will the airport express only extend network via a base station? I do not have base station but now I'm thinking I should have bought that instead of another express. Please advise.
Thanks,
Aaron

Welcome to the discussions, Aaron.
It can be a bit confusing, but an AirPort Express is a base station.
The issue you are having is the result of trying to use an older "b/g" AirPort Express with a newer "n" version of the product.
Whenever you have a "mix" of older and newer devices on a network and you want to provide more wireless coverage, you must use the WDS configuration on both devices.
While this will provide more wireless coverage, there are some downsides to WDS:
1) WDS operates only at "g" wireless speeds, so you will lose any advantage of having a newer "n" AirPort Express
2) The bandwidth of the network will be cut in half when WDS is configured. So, the bottom line here is that while you will have a bit more wireless "coverage", you'll also have a "g" wireless network that is running at half speed.
3) Many users find WDS difficult to configure.
If you were to consider an additional purchase of another newer "n" AirPort Express, then you could make use of the "extend a wireless network" feature which maintains "n" speeds throughout the network while maintaining close to the original bandwidth of the network. This type of configuration is also much easier to configure than the WDS type setup.
Post back to let us know if you want to try the WDS setup or whether you want to upgrade to the newer "extend" setup and we can provide you with instructions on configuration of either method.
Message was edited by: Bob Timmons

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