A litle guidance please - reduced bandwidth over wireless

Hi All,
If anyone with a little nore tech know-how can offer up any guidance to my problem, I would be most grateful.
I have recently recieved my 4mb to 10mb upgrade via Virgin BB . However, I can't seem to take advantage of the upgrade over my wireless network.
I get a steady 10mb avg on various speed test sites if the connection is via cat5 from modem to laptop/desktop. If I go via wireless it's stuck around 4mb which is what I had before the upgrade.
My router is a linksys wrt54g v5 running latest FW. I hope that it's a case of some tweaks to the wireless router but I'm stuck without some help.......I have tried my best to search this out before asking but no joy.
Wireless network is perfect and happy with speeds, the problem is purely D/L speeds from the web.
Thanks in advance,
D

Many things will affect your wireless connection. Microwave ovens, cordless phones, cellphones, construction of the house, and distance between computer and router. You will receive the fastest speed when your wireless signal is excellent or 5 bars.
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I also configured my Base Station and Wireless with names and Passwords.
I then clicked Update in AirPort Utility and after it restarted everything magically worked!
I think that the problem lay with my original IPv4 settings where I had chosen DHCP rather than Manually hoping that everything would automatically be set as it had worked previously. The clue was that on my MacBook Pro I noticed that the DHCP was not enabled when connected to the AirPort Express. Even my iPod Touch is now connected to the Internet!
If anyone can explain all of this I would appreciate it.

A litle guidance please - reduced bandwidth over wireless

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