HELP Time Capsule with two routers?

Hello,
Bit of a problem here. I want to have wireless through the whole house, but I need it mainly on the 1st floor... My router for some reason (walls, surfaces?) Cannot reach into the other part of the 1st floor. I have 2 routers, so my question is, Is there any way I could have TC back up computers on different routers?
The weird thing is, in the one part of the 1st floor, you can only see 1 router, but then when you move back into the other part of the 1st floor, it reads the other router... any help?

In general it looks like you just have reached the limits of WiFi in your environment. Its not really predictable where and how far your WiFi will work.
I have pretty much the same environment as you have (2 floor). In order to have WiFi accessible all over my house, I connected 2 Router (Airport Extreme and Time Machine) via an ethernet cable to each other (was hard work). They both distributing the "same" wireless LAN. Every resource in my LAN is now accessible from everywhere. Of cause TM as well.
There is an option to spare out the ethernet connection between the routers and have this be wireless as well. This never worked well. I cannot recommend to even try it. In order to provide the same Wireless Network from 2 points, the 2 routers need to communicate rather fast to each other. While this is not a problem with ethernet, it will always be a problem if this is wireless as well.
It may works if you just need working browsers and no other networking services.
Hope this helps to clarify!

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