Can't connect to wireless internet with Virgin

Installed Virgin media three weeks' ago and have not been able to use the wireless internet since. We have had 2 modems and 2 routers and spent about 12 hours talking to various people at Virgin but still does not work. Had AOL before with no probs. We have been able to connect it a couple of times but as soon as we turn off the mac, it loses the connection. Works fine on the modem with the ethernet cable. A lot of the time we can't even see the router on the airport but when we can and we try to connect, it just comes up with 'timed out'. The routers we have are D-Link and Netgear. Has anyone else had a similar problem? I'm just wondering if it is a problem with the Mac but we can connect to neighbours' unsecured networks. Please help!

thanks for your help, but sadly this did not work. even when i click the wireless airport icon on the top taskbar, no networks show up on the pull down menu. the only option i have is 'other.' shouldn't my secured network at least show up in the pull down menu, to which i provide the password?
is there any way to get this extreme card to work? has anyone else had this same problem with their iMac G5? this is ridiculous, thanks.

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thats a real world IP address. So that means you dont have an actual router doing NAT.
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