Extending Roaming Network, Airport Extreme with APPLE TV

I have a Time Capsule on the third floor of my house in the office. I use this as the DHCP router. Wireless coverage is good on the top and middle floor, however when I get to the bottom floor the signal is weaker, slower and prone to drop outs.

The bottom floor is where I have my older second iMac, a MacBook Pro, and my home theater which has Apple TV. They all can get a weak wireless signal from the Time Capsule, but like I said it is slow and unreliable. I want to create a roaming network by adding an Airport Extreme to the bottom floor. I have heard that a solid connection from Time Capsule to Airport Extreme with Cat6 or Cat5e ethernet cable is the much preferred and more reliable way to do this.

I would need to run the Cat6 cable on the outside of the house, approximately 120 feet down from the office. There is already a Coax cable that makes that same run to provide cable TV to my bottom floor home theater. I would plan to set the Extreme in bridge mode to act as another Wireless Access Point.
Questions:
1. Is exterior grade Cat6 cable available to make this outside run?
2. Will the transmission be affected if the Cat6 runs close to the Coax cable?
3. The Apple TV device will be in close proximity to where I plan to place the Airport Extreme, should they be connected via ethernet port or connected wirelessly?
4. Would I need to set the Time Capsule and the Airport Extreme to different channels?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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• Nov 1, 2012
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• Asked by Angela K from Clemmons
• Apr 28, 2010
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• Mar 13, 2010
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Does Airport Extreme work with a Verizon Wireless Network Extender?

• Asked by Margaret C from Brewster
• Oct 9, 2009
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• Asked by Dan S from Kalamazoo
• Sep 11, 2010
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can the Airport express be used to extend an already existing Airport Extreme wireless network?

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• Asked by Joshua B from Waterford
• Apr 8, 2010
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Time Capsule - Extreme Extender?

Got a 1TB time machine connected to my old modem. Bought my first Mac 10 months ago and love it. Problem is we've just had an extension and my iphone won't pick up the wireless signal in the new part of the house. I've asked for an airport extreme for Xmas in the hope it will extend the network for my phone etc. Have I done the right thing?

• Asked by Darran T
• Dec 10, 2010
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Can a Powerline Adaptor be used to extend a network with Airport Extreme/Time Capsule?

My house is very large and the rooms do not adjoin (to get from one room to another there is outside wall/open air/outside wall). As such it is very hard to get a wifi signal throughout.

I have tried a succession of Airport Extreme/Express etc. but to no avail. I finally found a location in the house where the Base station will reach all but one room on a floor. So have placed a Time Capsule at one end of the house that reaches all but one room upstairs and an Airport Extreme at the other end that reaches all but one room. Each Base unit covers the room above/below that the other is missing. However they cannot see each other so I cannot share my iTunes around the house. I tried an Airport Express in between but it was ridiculously slow.

So I am thinking of using a Powerline Adapter as follows

Internet/iTunes(iMac) -> Time Capsule -> Powerline Adapter (upstairs)

then Powerline Adapter -> Airport Extreme (downstairs) to extend the network

Would this work?

• Asked by Ruth M from Wadhurst
• May 15, 2012
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how many airport extreme base station can I link to extend network

• Asked by Rafael Z from San Ysidro
• May 13, 2010
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How to extend the range of Airport extreme

We are in a one floor office environment. At the two far ends of the office the WiFi signal is marginal. How can I extend the range of our Time Capsule - 2TB so that everyone can back into it and have reliable internet access? Is there some repeaters station set-up available?)

• Asked by Ruben S from Houston
• Oct 23, 2009
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