Range extender for Cisco M20?

Hi,
I have a customer with a very large house and another building. The other building is connected by ethernet to the house.
I installed a Cisco M20 in the house (downstairs room) and put another M20 in the other building, turning off DHCP so it works as an AP only.
The upstairs of the house has a very low signal so I purchased a Linksys E2000 (found the M20 is no longer for sale) and went to install tonight as a 3rd AP and found the upstairs where he thought there were ethernet jacks are just phone jacks.
I'd like to put a range extender upstairs but it looks like Linksys/Cisco does not make one that supports N? Any recommendations? I see other companies make them. I guess I could just buy a G.
Thanks

You already have E2000 as a seconds wireless access point. So I think you can connect WET610N to the E2000 and let WET to pick up wireless signal from the main router.
Main router ==> wireless <== WET610N + E2000.
Or you can try WAP4410N which has a repeater mode.

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