Extreme Network Problem - Ethernet versus Airport

I will try to make this problem/question simple.
I have a home network with various computers around the house. I have an Ethernet switch in the closet, and various nodes running throughout the house to various rooms.
Also attached to my switch is a Time Capsule, which is used to create a wireless network and distribute DHCP addresses to other wireless computers in the house.
I also have an Airport Extreme in my home office that is configured, via Airport Utility, to extend the Time Capsule network, and is on the home network wirelessly. In other words, the Extreme is not hard-wired to the network with an Ethernet cable.
I have two Ethernet printers connected to the Extreme in my home office (by Ethernet cable), which I wish to use as network printers throughout the house.
In my home office, my iMac is hard wired to Ethernet, but also has the capability for an airport connection. I prefer, of course, to use the Ethernet, for speed reasons.
Here is my problem/question: In my home office, I can only print to the two Ethernet printers connected to the Extreme if my iMac is on the home network via its Airport setting (in other words, Airport is above Ethernet in the network connections order). In that case, the printers print fine.
If, however, I switch the iMac’s network connection to Ethernet (by setting the service order to put Ethernet above Airport), I cannot print to the two Ethernet printers connected to the Extreme - I get caught in the “attempting to connect to host...” mode.
First question: Why is this? The Ethernet and Airport network settings appear the same, except for the computer’s IP address (i.e., the subnet and router addresses are the same on Ethernet as on Airport). Seems to me that if the printers are on the network, they are on the network.
Second question: Even if I am on Ethernet (and therefore cannot print to the printers attached to the Extreme), the two printers attached to the Extreme do show up in the Print & Fax window. In other words, I can select them and add them as printers, but I just can’t then print to them.
What am I missing here? Shouldn’t I be able to print from the iMac when it is on the network via Ethernet? If not, why not?
I can always, of course (I guess), attach the Extreme to the network via an Ethernet cable from its WAN port to avoid the problem. But that would require running a LONG Ethernet cable, drilling holes in the top of my desk and bottom of a bookcase, etc., and I don’t wish to do that.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks..

Yes, it’s Verizon FiOS coming into the modem, the modem to the switch. Make and model unknown, but don’t see how that would be an issue here.
I am trying to ascertain, whether or not, your entire network is on the same subnet. If you are using an Ethernet switch and not an Internet router (with a built-in Ethernet switch) directly connected to the modem, then your basic network will not work ... as the modem is only expecting a single device to be connected to it.
If you had the TC directly connected to the modem, and then, the Ethernet switch connected to one of the TC's LAN ports to provide additional network nodes throughout the house this would be workable.

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Even though the express was hardwired to the extreme during the set up process it was choosing to "extend" the 5 ghz network which I have activated on my extreme. I assume this is okay. It seems to be. It offered me no other option during the set up.
Both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands will be extended if the extending device supports dual bands.
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That's a good way to do things. If the Express works when connected directly to the Extreme, and doesn't when you connect it elsewhere on the network, then you know that you have a wiring or switch issue somewhere.
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Either will work, as long as you don't mind logging on and off of networks to switch. Most users prefer to have one "big" network. Then, they can walk a laptop from one area to another, stay on the same network and the Mac will automatically switch to pick up the strongest signal from the closest access point.
I activated the 5 ghz on the newly configured and newly named express. It seems to work.
As it should.
While configuing the express I got the error message metioned above a couple times. I kept trying the same procdure with out changeing anything and eventually it worked.
I can't duplicate that issue, but glad that things worked after a few tries.
Since my AppleTV on the second floor has difficulties connecting with the extreme, I am thinking of plugging it in to the express directly. How do you feel about this? WOuld I be better off running another separate ethernet wire off the switch?
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That's quite a home network. Glad that things are working. I am sure that you notice better wireless performance now with the two AirPort Express devices wired into the Ethernet backbone.
If we could get more users to set up their networks this way, most of the complaints that we get about slow wireless, intermittent connections, etc would go away.
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As you can see, the issue is that the LAN port of the Extreme is not connected back to the switch, I've only connected the WAN port of the Extreme to the switch. Therefore the express doesn't get an IP over the CAT5e cable coming from the switch, and will only extend wirelessly. The reason I don't make that connection is because the switch/modem is in the basement, the Extreme is on the second floor, the express is on the far side of the first floor, and I don't want to run another cable through the house.
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this problem is driving me nuts for weeks now, and I've not had any success with solving it myself, so I hope someone might have a clue...
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This Firmware 7.1 update for AirPort Extreme Base Station with 802.11n should definitely NOT be installed.
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Apple is sending me two new AirPorts in 1-2 days, which is great service, but I will not be installing firmware update 7.1 again. Fool me once...
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4145
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I am using a MACBOOK PRO (MAC OS X 10.6.8)
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Hi, I have a similiar setup. When you click onto the express, and it asks you to switch networks, it's not actually asking you to "change" networks. It's just actually switching to the xpress. When the xpress comes up, you'll input the name of your existing network, which you set up and named for the extreme. You'll have to change the extreme to "participate in a network", which is what you'll also do for the xpress. In the extreme under the WDS tab, you'll input the wds mode as "wds main". And then put a check mark in the "allow wireless clients". Where it says wds remotes, you'll input the the airport id's for the xpress's. In each of the xpress's, you'll set up as participating in a wds network. In the xpress's, under the wds tab, you'll set the wds mode to remote, and check
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