TIme Capsule working with Airport Extream

Hello I have a home office in a two story home with a MacBook Pro, IMac, AirPort Extreme for my cable modem. I have on order a Time Capsule. The AirPort Extreme works great for our two story home, very well on the bottom level, and has about 70 to signal strength on the upper level of the home. I would like to unplug the AirPort Extreme in the office on the lower level, set up the TIme Capsule in the office for the lower level, perform all backups that are needed. Then take the AirPort Extreme and move it upstairs to help make my wifi much stronger upstairs and around my property. Any ideas? Good idea, bad idea? Things I need to do first or think about? Thank you.

Hi Bob, another question for you if you have time. Time Capsule is on it's way via mail and I had been going over this set pre set up in my head and you said something that made me think more about the Airport Extreme.
You said, "You'll need to reconfigure the AirPort Extreme to "extend a wireless network"
I'm going to start to learn about the correct way to do this in the next day or two, but my question is.
Should I reset the Airport Extreme back to it's "factory settings" pre setting up the Time Capsule.
Then perform the work of the back up of the Time Capsule like you had suggested.
Then take the Airport Extreme up stairs and start the set up of "extending the network?" with a fresh Airport Extreme.
Or leave the Airport Extreme as is, move up stairs, and "just extend" as it will already be configured to my Imac/MacBook Pro Iphone, ect?
Thank you again, and I hope that I was a clear enough.
Darek

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