IPad2 drops wifi; iPad3 works great

in my house, (avg sized home) I can use my iPad2 in the first half of my home. The router is located in the front of the house, if I use my iPad in the back of the house, or upstairs it will not pick up any wifi. In fact, when in the back half of the house, it doesn't even show my personal wifi connection, just neighbors. But my iPad 3 works everywhere. Our iPhones work everywhere in the house.
So it is solely just my iPad2.
Prob need to head to the Apple store right? Any trouble shooting I can try at home? I don't want to have to restart my ipad everytime I go to bk of house, not sure what else I can do.
Any chances someone has heard of this? Does this seem like something that could be fixed by Apple?
Also, it's not just my house, it's when we go on vacations too. one of our iPads picks up connection the other very minimally.

I use a wireless extender.
http://www.aztech.com/sg/homeplug_hl110ew.html

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