Large Home Wireless Coverage

Good evening,
I have a fairly large home and I have grown tired of my lack of reliable wireless coverage.  I would like to update to the various apple components for my wireless and wired networking needs.  Bob, I have read many of your posts and am intrigued and have a few questions.  If I bought multiple airport extreme devices would I be able to link them together via cat6 to form one large wireless network?  I am probably looking at 4 to 5 devices due to the large amount of concrete and steel that was used in the building of the house.  I ran many lengths of cat6 so that is available to me.  Thanks for your time and I eagerly await your advice . 
Charlie

Charlie,
I am using two airport extremes to extend my network throughout the house.  I have them linked using cat 6 cable just as you are suggesting.   If you follow the setup instructions in the manual for setting up a roaming network it works without any problems.  Just pay attention to how you connect the extremes to each other and set all the downstream one to bridge mode. The first one serves as the DHCP server for the network. All of them must have the same network name, and password.
Mike

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    Last edited by jaydoc (2010-02-26 07:57:15)

    Router Status
    Hardware Version WPN824v3
    Firmware Version V1.0.7_1.0.8NA
    Internet Port
    MAC Address 00:1E:68:12:EB:1C
    IP Address [i]edited[/i]
    DHCP DHCP Client
    IP Subnet Mask 255.255.252.0
    Domain Name Server 167.206.254.2
    167.206.254.1
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    IP Address 192.168.1.1
    DHCP ON
    IP Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
    Wireless Port
    Name (SSID) jaydoc
    Region United States
    Channel 1
    Mode b and g
    Wireless AP ON
    Broadcast Name ON
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