How to repeat wireless signal using Airport Extreme as base, Netgear as repeater

Some input and/or assistance is appreciated. I purchased a new 802.11ac Airport Extreme. I have an old Netgear wndr3300 (802.11n, 2.4 or 5GHz). I'm trying to repeat the 2.4GHz using the Airport Extreme as the master router and the Netgear as the repeater. The Netgear DOES have an option for repeating in the admin menu. I've followed what instructions I was given on the admin menu regarding providing the MAC address of the Airport to the Netgear router. I have had no success finding a place to enter the MAC address of the Netgear router on the Apple router if that is necessary. Can anyone assist?

While in close proximity to the TC, I can successfully browse the web and can log into the NG routers admin panel and view its settings. However, when I go out into the garage, the signal stays very strong, but I lose connectivity to the Internet.
When in close proximity to the TC, the Netgear is picking up a strong signal.
Move the Netgear device out to the garage....but do not power it up.
Log on to the TC wireless, if you can. That very weak and slow signal.....if you can log onto the Internet at all....is the same signal that the Netgear will be receiving.
A repeater or extender or whatever you want to call it can only repeat or extend the quality of signal that it receives. It won't make a slow signal faster or a poor quality signal better.
Therefore, the normal location for an repeater or extender would be a point that is about half way between the TC and and the garage.
Extending this way always results in significant compromises in performance. The extender needs to be close to the TC to get a good signal to extend. At the same time, you want a strong signal from the repeater for devices in the garage, so the extender needs to be close to the garage.
It cannot be close to the TC and be close to the garage at the same time with any method that I know of.
You may need to look at running an Ethernet cable out to the garage if you want good performance out there. Since there is no signal loss in a wire, the device in the garage gets a top quality signal to work with.

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AirPort Utility 5.6 works with AirPort Extreme 802.11g base stations.
It works with N version airports.
It will also show details of the AC model but cannot be used for the setup.. mostly.
I purposely got the new 6th Gen Airport Extreme so my internet connection would be a lot faster!
Your network will be much faster when you have AC client directly connected to the AE. Older client will go no faster.. but what is worse.. extend wireless is mixing new and old wireless standards.. guess what one wins.. OLD.. So when you extend wireless.. you have no improvement whatsoever. This whole post is about extending wireless.. so you cannot extend to older equipment and do any better.. maybe slightly better signal although from your comments that isn't happening either.
I would rather not have to use an ethernet at all with the TC and I don't know EOP adapters are!
If you do not use ethernet then you are going to be forced to accept slow speed.
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So what your saying is for the fastest internet speed and back up speed possible I should keep my Airport Extreme plugged into my Modem and keep my TC set up as a wireless extender? Then when I want to do back ups I should plug an ethernet cable from my TC to my MacBook Pro?
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