Connect two AEBSn wirelessly or via Ethernet

I'm considering extending my wireless network by adding another AEBS or Time Capsule. It's about 60 feet (and three interior walls) between my current AEBS and our living room. If I get another router and put it in the living room, I can connect wirelessly between the two (but still through the walls) or run an ethernet cat6 cable to connect them. I have a PS3 and AppleTV in the living room. We also have macbooks that connect wirelessly.
If anything connected to the second router would have to share the single connection back to the primary router, would this slow everything down for them, similar to splitting a signal with a hub? Or are router's smarter than that? Just not sure how to proceed.
Thanks in advance. If this is already addressed somewhere, just point me to the appropriate topic. Did some searches, but hadn't found this specifically addressed.

Yes, they would both share the internet connection. I am using wildblue satellite, with a 1.5 mbps (~190K) download connection. I just didn't want the ps3/appleTV/3 Macbooks to bog the whole thing down, and thought if I had two wireless access points, and different things attached to different routers (and probably hardwire the appleTV and the PS3 to the router in the living room) that I would get fast connections everywhere.
Everything can connect at wireless n speed except the PS3. Directly connecting to the router would fix the wireless G speed bottleneck (if it actually exists).

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