Extending extreme gen5 network with previous gen4 model

I just got a new airport extreme gen.5 to replace my gen.4. I am using the gen.4 to extend my network, but does it extend the 5Ghz capability of the gen.5?
Any help would be very much appreciated. I'm not sure if when choosing "5Ghz" in the airport extrem (4) section of the house if I am connecting to the hardware in the other room or does the airport 4 simply serve as a network door...kinda like the phone booth in the matrix

In order to extend both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands, the 5th Generation AirPort Extreme must be configured to use the same wireless network for both bands....which is the default setting for the Extreme.
Or, stated another way, if you have enabled the option to assign a different name to the 5 GHz network on the 5th Generation Extreme, you must disable that option to allow the 4th Generation Exteme to "extend" both bands correctly.
Then configure the 4th Generation AirPort Extreme to "extend a wireless network" and select the wireless network name of the 5th Generation Extreme.
Since the 5th Generation Extreme is sending signals on both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands using the same wireless network name......and.....the 4th Generation is extending that same network, both bands will be extended by the 4th Generation Extreme.  This assumes of course that the 4th Generation Exteme is located where it can receive a strong wireless signal form the 5th Generation device.

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