E3200 - Wireless disconnects and slow speed

I bought the E3200 in order to replace my "old" and "outdated" networking equipment, which happens to consist of a Linksys WAP54g access point, connected to a Netgear RT311 router. That old setup has worked reliably for years, and with decent speed. However, I have noticed my wireless connections dropping off every now and then, to the tune of a few times a week, and thought that it might be time to get new N-based equipment.
The E3200 arrived last night, so I installed it right away. Installation was actually a breeze! But, that is the ONLY reason I even gave this unit more than the minimum of one star. I was able to get this router up and running, and connected to my cable modem, in no time. And then, connecting all of our wireless devices to it was pretty quick too. Thus ends the good part of this review...
I worked from home today, as I do fairly regularly, and NEVER in all of my days of doing so have I had so many wireless disconnects! My work laptop is a year-old Lenovo W500 running Win7 Enterprise 64-bit, souped up with lots of memory and hard drive space. Like I said, only recently had I noticed any sort of drop-offs when talking to my 802.11g AP. Well, it seemed like every ten minutes my laptop would get disconnected today talking to the new 802.11n AP/Router. Isn't N-based equipment, and this E3200 in particular, supposed to be really fast and reliable? This one certainly isn't! Oh, I've only complained about the reliability part so far... Trust me, the SPEED is terrible too! While my laptop's wireless connection in Windows was telling me that I was connected at between 117 and 130Mbps pretty regularly, there is no way that can be true! I am a programmer, so I am connected to the office over VPN every day, and we use Microsoft's TFS for our source code. Over my G connection, the code came over pretty quickly. Over the N connection today, it was DOG slow! I mean REALLY bad! Took forever to get my source code! And, web pages seemed to load really slow all day! Just loading this page to write this review seemed to take a lifetime!
I really think this thing only deserves one star, and that being for the ease of the setup. But, since one is the minimum, I gave it two. As to the value for the money? Not there. This unit isn't cheap. I paid a little more to get a better quality product, but I am left disappointed.
My intent here is not to slam the Linksys product really. I have been using a Linksys wireless-g access point for years, and I love it! However, I want to (a) warn other of my experience, and (b) see if anybody has any ideas as to how this can be fixed, perhaps. Maybe the out-of-the-box configuration always behave this way, and it just needs some tweaking??? I hope so, but I doubt it. And if this is not merely a matter of a little tweaking, I intend to return this router, and reconnect my old, faithful equipment.
-- UPDATE --
I am sitting within a few inches of this lousy router with my laptop, trying to tweak its settings via the web interface. The wireless connection is still really slow, and keeps timing out. I could probably plug in to the GB port, but the purpose of this exercise was to see if the connection problems were due to distance and walls. Apparently, they were not. Sigh...

Although I am not the aforementioned Scott, my experience with the E3200 has been very similar. What lead me to do something about it and find this thread was the constant wireless dropping. Working from home and having the connection come and go multiple times a day will motivate a person.
This started happening after having the E3200 for 4 months. I did the firmware upgrade, but not the reset/reconfigure, and things cleared up for another 3 months. Then shortly after having the new Dish Network Hopper/Joey system installed, the problem came back. Not sure if it had anything to do with it but that was the only thing that changed in my environment.
The Hopper/Joey is Ethernet wired to the E3200 via a MoCA bridge and does add additional network traffic. Also there is a ZigBee wireless remote which may or may not be causing additional interference.
Regardless, I did the recommended 30 second reset and reconfigure including picking channels for both wireless types. Everything is back up and running good so far. Fingers crossed.

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Between 7am and 9pm my internet is just terrible. I lose connection pretty much all day. The longest I'm able to be online is maybe half an hour. It just goes out at random times and stays out until later at night and it will come back.
Also my speed is just all over the place. When downloading stuff it goes from 380 kb/s to 100 kb/s and goes back and forth.
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#1 Margin (dB) - Signal to noise margin. 6 is pretty bad possibly unusable at times, 20 is very good. You normally want 12dB or better IIRC from back in my DSL days. The higher the number, the better to a point.
Line Attenuation - Measure the amount the signal has degraded. Below 20dB is excellent, above 50 is poor, fill in the dots for anything in between.
a) Did you try connecting your modem directly to the NID?
Points to: http://www.dslreports.com/faq/1317
b) If not, please do and retest those margins and Line Attenuation.
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E1200 - Had a weak signal and slow speed

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This type of cascading requires the main and the secondary router to be on the same LAN IP segment to allow the computers and other devices to connect to both routers. This configuration is recommended if you want to share files and resources within the network.
2. LAN to WAN – Connecting one of the Ethernet ports (LAN ports) of router A to the Internet port (WAN port) of router B.
This type of cascading requires the main router and the secondary router to have different IP addresses. This connection makes it easier to identify which router the computers and other devices in the network are connected to since they will have different LAN IP segments. However, computers that are connected to router A will not be able to communicate with router B, and vice versa since they are two different networks.
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Can you also confirm if you're connected at the master socket or an extension? And what your type your master socket is according to this picture
As standard, the bell wire should be taken out of any master or extension socket as this can reduce the amount of interference your broadband can pick up and sometimes fixes the problem, see how to remove it here http://bit.ly/4LEKJg - have you removed it?
The reason your speed is low is because your IP profile is at rock bottom so it can go and slower luckily for you! Although you need to maintain a stable connection for 3-5 days to allow the profile to catch up. If its still at 135kbps after that then we can get you in contact with people that can fix it, we need your ADSL stats to make sure you've been connected for enough time.
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0
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Sorry about not replying back sooner. Based on what I see here, you have a line that needs to be repaired by a field tech. Your attenuation is low in the morning hours when your connection is at a higher speed. As your connection degrades, your attenuation is going up while the speed goes down. That is typically the opposite, where a speed decrease causes the attenuation to also decrease a small amount.
Since you have big swings in speed, attenuation, and relative S/N margin, this is suggestive of a bad splice on the line.
If you have a landline with Verizon and you have static or other noise on the line, report that problem and do not mention anything about the DSL. If it's just with DSL, DSL Repair should be informed. Emphasise, and strongly emphasise that the solution is not to decrease your speed until that is concerned to be the final solution. A speed decrease won't fix this.
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