Question about Airport Express used as a "network extender"

Hi... I have an Airport Extreme 802.11n that acts as the Base Station for my home network. I then have an Airport Express located elsewhere in our home that is set up to "Extend a wireless network".. We need it to give us better power coverage throughout our house... It seems to work fine... My wife usually runs her laptop in a distant part of the house and her computer connects wirelessly to the Airport Express and then from there to the Airport Extreme that talks to the rest of the world...
My question is related to a new Panasonic Wireless camera I just bought... This is not the first of these cameras I have deployed and each one has been a bit of an adventure... After a short time I got this new camera set up wirelessly near the Airport Extreme 802.11... So far so good... But then I moved it out near the Airport Express extender and it connects nicely to the extender just like my wife's computer does (I see this by looking at the wireless clients and I see the camera listed by its MAC address)... However, when I then try to connect to the camera by opening its web page, it won't connect... Once I noticed that it DID connect but only after a very long time and the page itself opened slowly and on inspection of the Airport Utility I noticed that it had connected to BOTH the extender (at good power) and the Base station (at very low power and thus the slow load)... But even though it shows it is attached to the extender just like my wife's computer connects to the extender, still I can't open its web page when the camera is attached exclusively to the extender... I admit to not being an expert on router or, for that matter, network camera settings so I thought I would drop in here and ask if anyone has any suggestions... Any ideas??? thanks.. bob...

Thanks for the feedback.. I have wondered before if "extend network" is equivalent to acting as a "bridge" and I think you are saying yes... thanks for that...
As if struck by a lightning bolt, sometime after I wrote my original post, the Panasonic camera soon after started behaving precisely as I would have expected... It is no longer attaching to both the extender and the base station. It is instead ONLY attaching to the extender now (which it is physically very near) and I can connect to it from a web browser quickly and repeatedly... And what did I do to make this happen??? Not a danged thing but let time pass... That's been my experience with these cameras in the past... As I said, always somewhat of an adventure to get them set up but once you do so, I have two others running now for a few years with no problems,,, Thanks for your help... bob..

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