Multiple Airport Extremes with different WiFi networks

Hello. I'm not sure how to word this question, but here it goes...
In our office we have 2 independent internet services. Each one is connected to its own Airport Extreme. One of our internet connections went down and I am wondering if it is possible to use the first Airport Extreme connected to the good internet and send a signal to the other Airport Extreme that lost its internet and use it as it was, so we don't have to change all of our printers and computers WiFi logins... I want the second Extreme to just stay the same network name but get it's internet from the other Extreme.. Does that make sense?
Thanks

Unfortunately, it would not be possible to say whether this might work....or even give you an educated guess.......without having a lot of information about how the office network(s) were originally designed and set up, what security was used, whether MAC Address Authentication was used (common in most commercial networks) along with any number of other things that may be involved.
Best bet would be to get the with IT folks who designed or administer the network for an answer.

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Thank you for the replies.
My predicament can’t be unique. I need a large chunk of connected, stable and slow storage that seldom gets used but is safe and sound… and I need a safe automatic backup of my current projects (but never am I so stressed that every nanosecond of data is replicated on the moon at the speed of light…).
I have witnessed massive Drobo failures and oddly been thankful that I had a mess of several external drives on my desk.
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After posting the above question, I came across the following post: https://discussions.apple.com/message/17978428#17978428
I ended up redoing my configuration using the steps described in the post for setting up a "roaming" set of routers (repeated here):
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Set the Wireless Security and Wireless Password to be the same as the existing wireless network.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2038
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Message was edited by: Bob Timmons

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