2 Airports as Wireless extended network

[mk313]

Question for those that know more about this than I do. I have a Time Capsule (not sure what the specifics are, but it's the last one that they made, the tall one, with 802.11ac) that I use at my house & love. We have one area in the kitchen where we get a weak signal. It hasn't been an issue up until the last few weeks when my daughter is trying to zoom from there. We'll occasionally get a 'weak network' error. I have a few older Airport Extremes (the most current is the one that is 802.11n. I'd like to try setting that up as a 'Wireless Extended Network' (the official title that apple references in their article on setting up networks with 2 airports). If I do that, will it slow down my entire network to 802.11n speeds, or just the devices that log in through the older AirPort Extreme?

I'd like to avoid moving to a mesh or other network as I use the Time Capsule for one of my backup drives & enjoy the simplicity. If I can add this second Airport to the network & cover the kitchen, then I'd be super happy, but I don't want to degrade my whole network, as I work from home, and everything has been running smoothly up till now.

Thanks in advance,

 

[satcomer]

Depends if you plan of being a car that needs updating in your garage! you could put it in Bridge Mode (that means NAT is turned off) then put it in your garage for AC to car!

 

[danskoya]

For my current setup, I use Ethernet (instead of wireless) to extend a using a bunch of Extremes configured in bridge mode and using the same SSID / passphrase.

 

[mk313]

For my current setup, I use Ethernet (instead of wireless) to extend a using a bunch of Extremes configured in bridge mode and using the same SSID / passphrase.

Thanks. I'm trying to avoid running ethernet, due to where the extension is at. FWIW, I did set up the second router on my network & it does not seem to have impacted the rest for the network, at least as far as I can tell.