802.11 N Router and 802.11 G cards

I posted this to an old message: I just bought a wireless N with 4 hardwire ports and no it is not backwards compatible with the G cards, wireless or hardwired. I followed the advisor and it never could find the 4 hardwired nor the 2 wireless on my laptops, unplugged N and put G back but it doesn't help as the card in the computer upstairs has a N card with the extended antenna and the G won't pick it up; bought the N router because I was told that it is backwards compatible, now I face changing all cards to get the reception I need from upstairs.
Have been online looking for a 802.11 n card (cat5) to put in my main pc so n router can see main pc and can not find any such beast. Any ideas how to make the N router see the G cards in the pc's and laptops that have G?

Okay...logon to router's setup page and try changing radio band to wide 40MHz, wide channel to 9 and standard channel to 11...click on the advanced wireless settings, reduce beacon interval to 50, fragmentation and RTS threshold to 2304...check whether it works or not.

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