Time capsule as second router

Hi,
I have had my 500gb Time Capsule for a while and have used it just for backing up. Now I want to use it to extend the coverage of my wifi signal by connecting it via powerline adapters to the other side of the house. I have a TP-LINK router which, for the moment, I am trying to connect it with directly using an ethernet cable.
I am running Mountain Lion which may be a problem as I have seen a number of posts suggesting reverting to Airport Utility 5.6 from 6.1 which is what I am now running. Frustratingly I did get it working yesterday for a period, was able to back up (first time since I moved home) and was able to connect to it's network in the other room (Albeit that it was running as a separate network and my Iphone 4s wouldn't switch between the two networks automatically.
Now Airport Utility can only recognise it when I first plug it in having restarted it and my router. I then try and edit the settings (using posts from here) but with no joy and usually Airport Utility then cannot find it and suggests it was "previously part of your network. check that it is still in range..etc.).
I'm pretty new to networking and understand very little but have been working with trial and error for some time. Now it is just taking too much of my time and I am consistently failing. Any help would be hugely appreciated.
Thanks
Max

Partly at least this is a problem with Mountain Lion.. perhaps exacerbated by using EOP adapters that don't pass bonjour packets like they should. This is important for the Apple discovery mechanism.
I don't have an easy solution. Partly at least because the TC is not working properly even when it is setup correctly as main router sitting right next to the computer.
Let me get the setup straight though.
You have actually got ethernet connecting to the two.
I have a TP-LINK router which, for the moment, I am trying to connect it with directly using an ethernet cable.
What TP-Link? Since this is now the main router for the network.. some of them do not handle bonjour properly either. If it is a router, could you swap the roles.. put the TC in as the main router and the TP-link as the extension.
Or buy another apple router.. this is often the only way to get things to work.. the new airport express is not too expensive. Or you can pickup secondhand an older airport express or extreme.. they are both very reliable cf the Time Capsule which are a lot more prone to failure..
If you are stuck with the current layout.
I suggest you set things manually..
Set the TC to IP address. Even in bridge mode, this will stop it falling out with the TP-Link.
So say TP link is 192.168.1.1 then make the TC 192.168.1.254 (top of the range to keep it out of the way).
Set the TP-Link to offer DHCP leases that are fairly short time.. say 10min. This will help keep things up to date.
Set the wireless and TC names to SMB compatible.. short, no spaces pure alphanumeric.
You can even set the wireless name to be identical to the TP-link.. same security.. wpa2 personal is the only suitable setting (AES on the TP-Link).. same passkey.. but set a fixed and different channel on the TC.
If you are going to find out what goes wrong, I would also use a computer directly plugged into the TC or using 5ghz (which means using a different name for 5ghz) and get to the logs and see if there are error messages.

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