Gonna throw it out the window!

My Express is sooooooo unreliable! Please help. All worked well for a year or so. Then it started playing up. I'm lucky to get a range of 10 metres from it. Sometimes I don't even get 2 feet! I'm seriously thinking about getting something else.
The unit is about 2 yards from my Powermac and sometimes the Mac does'nt see it. I have tried reseating the Card in the mac and the arial but no luck. My 12" Powerbook still sees it from a few yards away. This suggests the mac is at fault but the next time I start it up its fine again. My powerbook won't see it from 10 metres away. I have tried all sorts of resets to the express unit I have even down graded to 6.1.1. I also tried putting the unit high up. Still it doesnt work properly. Is it duff now? Should I replace it?
Help before I go mad!
Thanks in advance
Chris

I've just tried both channels 1 & 11. 1 seemed to make the internet connection painfully slow. 11 seems to be woring fine. Thanks for the advice. I will keep an eye on it for a few days and reply back to this if problems still exsist.
Thanks
Chris

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Sorry, does this link work
http://www.apple.com/support/appleid/
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hi,
I have received the 'unsufficient bandwidth' and 'user not reponding' responses for months now. i just can't audio chat - haven't been able to for months!!! (but i can text chat)
I WAS able to audio chat when i first got my mac (it was brilliant!), then about a week later - gone - won't work. i haven't been able to get it to work since.
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Dear Ed
Thank you so much for taking the time to post advice for my problem. Unfortunately in my Netgear SmartWizard options I do not have a Port Forwarding or Port Triggering option.
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I looked around for anything resembling what you mentioned and found in Services (under Security) i can add a Custom Service...
...i was able to add iChat 1 and iChat 2 and put the ports (but not my server address - it is set up in Firewall Rules). i chose TCP/UDP for both.
I also added AIM as TCP/UDP. [when i tried to add it as TCP it said "Service Port number was defined by another service" so i was forced to choose TCP.]
unfortunately this has not helped. This is probably way too much info for you, as your settings aren't like mine. but am hoping either you or someone may have an idea of what else i could do.
regardless, thanks so much for your help.
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