Yosemite incompatibility with older time capsules?

I backed up my Mavericks late 2008 MacBook Pro and installed Yosemite - I am impressed it flies like the first day i bought it 6 years ago, what great hardware!! Yes here's the "However!!" I have problem now though, not with my MacBook ProI, but with my 3rd Gen time capsule - the only thing that has changed is the install of Yosemite and yet the Time Capsule although initially recognised by Airport - keep splurging out "An unexpected error occurred. Try again". Of course, I've followed every advice I can get find; reset to factory, connect over WAN over WiFi, reset for 5 secs, when it powers on etc. etc., but no joy. I tried installing previous Airport Utility, but only the version that comes with Yosemite works with it. So, I believe there may be some incompatability with the new software or Airport version and that version of time capsule firmware and/or hardware, it was working perfectly on Mavericks an hour before update. Nothing I can find in any notes/docs from Apple said I had to be wary. Ho hum!!! Just be careful out there!!  

OK, thanks for the clarification on that. No guarantees using wireless, but we will try.
To set up the older Time Capsule, we need to know what operating system you are using on your PC or Mac.  If you have a Mac and are not sure what operating system it is using, click the Apple icon in the upper left corner of the screen, then click About This Mac and post back with the OS X Version number that you see there.
An iPhone or iPad could be used for the setup as well.
In the meantime, please take your laptop and walk it slowly to the area where you plan to locate the "extending" Time Capsule.
Check to make sure that you can get a good, solid, reliable wireless signal at that point. If you can, great.  If you cannot, then you will have to move your laptop closer to the "main" Time Capsule to find the right point where you can get a good, reliable connection.
The "extending" Time Capsule can only extend the quality of signal that it receives, so the right location is critical for decent performance.

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