My 2008 Airport Extreme no longer carries throughout my house. Will the newwest version fix that problem?

I have a 2008 Airport Extreme and it's signal is too weak to reach the back of the house. Will the laterst version AE fix that problem?
Thanks, windancertoo2354

Will the laterst version AE fix that problem?
To be honest, probably not. I have both models and there is very little difference in the signal power among the two devices since the broadcast power of wireless routers is limited by law. The law has not changed, and the AirPorts are running at 100% power by default.
You will likely do better to add an AirPort Express or AirPort Extreme to "extend" the wireless signal that you have. This can be done by connecting the AirPorts using a wired Ethernet connection (strongly preferred) or by configuring the new device to "extend" the signal using wireless only.

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When I try to protect my network with a password, my airport extreme no longer recognizes my airport express. How can I fix this so I can connect my network and still use my network for airtunes??

I think the initial problem is that your iPhone was connected to an open network that wasn't yours.
Go to Settings > WiFi and "Forget" the network created by that AirPort Extreme, it's older than dirt. Forget your neighbor's network also.
Perform the equivalent actions with your Mac: System Preferences > Network > Wi-Fi > Advanced... Delete every network that appears, including your own.
Then, connect to your own network on all your devices, after which you ought to be able to use any of them and configure your Extreme without any difficulty. You may need to start over with a "hard reset" on both the main AirPort Extreme and the one extending its network.
Does this have anything to do with the fact that 'Back to My Mac' is probably enabled?
Not exactly, but using iCloud Keychain will populate all your devices with the names of preferred networks that any of them connect to, no matter where they are. I don't know why Apple considers that a beneficial feature.

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I have a 2008 airport extreme, will I get greater range with the new version of the airport extreme?

I have had both models, and frankly notice little if any difference in range, likely because the broadcast power of wireless routers is set by law, and just about every router is running at 100%.
The dual band feature of the newer model will allow devices that are in close proximity to connect using the 5 GHz band, which runs 2-3 times faster than the 2.4 GHz band.
If you need greater range, you will likely do better by adding something like an AirPort Express to "extend" the wireless signal for greater reach.....rather than simply replacing one AirPort Extreme with another.
Another option....if you opt for the new AirPort Extreme....would be to use it as your "main" base station and use the older Extreme to "extend" the wireless signal.

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I've had this exact setup for years, no problems. Could it be that the base station is dead? I can't understand how that could be since it seems like a software thing? Please help with any thoughts! Thanks.

I've only just got a Vigor 120 ADSL Modem (PPPoA->PPPoE bridge) and had some problems of a similar nature. Part of the problem (something Apple could address if they wanted) is that if you set it to PPPoE for WAN port, it can't talk plain Ethernet on that port so you can't see the ADSL status without unplugging the ethernet which of course resets the ADSL connection. It'd be nice if Apple allowed it to work. The easiest "option" I think they could add would be:
On the PPPoE page, an option "Route private addresses outside PPP" default to off.
Enabling this would mean any routed IP (modem is 192.168.2.1, airport LAN is 192.168.1.1/24) would not be PPP encapsulated if it was a private address (192.168..., 10...) allowing the status page to work and not breaking anything internet wise. I'm sure this wouldn't just be useful to me... Tell you what, Apple, if you make this happen, I'll upgrade to the new 802.11n dual band.
I was getting "Looking for PPPoE host" "Negotiating PPPoE connection" for ages. Some combination of resets and replugging the ethernet cable to the back of the modem did fix it, I haven't worked out exactly what works reliably yet and I don't want to screw up my signal->noise ratio more by doing unnecessary modem resets.
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I have moved my base station on previous occassions with no problems--plug and play if you will.
I just moved it to a new location and while the computers in the house recognize the wireless network with no problems, the base station no longer successfully connects to the internet.
I have plugged my MacBook Pro directly to my cable modem and confirmed that the internet still works perfectly well to the house. Plugging that same cable into the base station does not bring the internet up.
I've used the AirPort Utility to act like I'm starting from scratch.
I've chosen Manual configuration and replicated all the data from the MacBook's succesful hookup with no success.
I have manually reset the base station and tried the above again, no success.
Any other ideas? It seems too coincidental to me that there could be an actual hardware issue (everything was perfect right before I moved it (I know, I know--that begs the question, why'd you move it? I should say everything was good, except for one room in the house received a weak signal, so I wanted it to be more centrally located)) that arose just as I moved it. My guess is I just need a little tweak to a setting or something but I can't say I understand what all this DHCP stuff is about.
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Most cable modems require that you power them off whenever you switch the Ethernet connection from one device to another. The cable modem will refuse to communicate with the new device if you do not do this.
Did you power off/on the cable modem when you switched the connection from the MacBook Pro to the AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS)?
Some cable modems have a reset switch for this task.
Some cable modems have an internal battery which must be removed to do this reset.
Sometimes the cable modem must be left turned off for several hours or even overnight to reset equipment back at the ISP's office.

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You have an Airport Extreme base station that is set to "Create a wireless network" and you have the box checked for "allow this network to be extended"....
Then you have an Airport Express that is set to "Extend a wireless network" which you selected the name of your network in the box...
Correct?
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4259?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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