Infinity and wireless router issues

Hi Folks,
Thanks for taking the time to read this, if anyone has any similar issues or resolutions to the situation feel free to chip in..
We had Infinity installed a while back and noticed some intermittent connection problems, the issue was that wireless connections would suddenly loose the gateway and go offline but unusually it was always fixed by simply restarting the network adapter on the client machine, the wireless signals were always near full strength.
Later on I noticed that although the clients seemed to loose connection it actually appears to loose DNS and keeps existing connections live, example below, meaning that if you had fired up a streaming connection before the 'drop' it would continue to stream to the client perfectly although the client could not access any new connections(online).
The setup we were given on installation consisted of an Infinity wired(only) box that connects to our old wireless router which appears to be acting as a wireless bridge to the Infinity box.
Having been a BBI Tech for a well known ISP Customer Service Centre, using a process of elimination I am guessing that there is an issue between the old router and the new Infinity router that is causing conflicts to crop up.
**Example** A friend working out of the country was using a VNC client to logon to my machine as he couldn't access our DB servers from his location, he became confused when he was using my desktop and suddenly he lost online capability.... even though he was remotely logged into my machine to witness it he couldnt open any websites or connect to any DB's.
I would appreciate any input as im thinking that the best way to fix this would be to buy a new Infinity capable modem with wireless built in, but am reluctant to do so as the standard kit should work after being setup by the engineer..
In summary:-
wireless drops dns with signal full, (not a signal issue)
current connections stay open, (again not a signal issue or problem with the broadband)
cannot open any new connections, (not sure if this is dns based as cant even connect to direct ip's)
the clients have all been fine on other wireless networks, (not just tested on an individual, faulty adapter)
renewing the connection from the client fixes the issue, (something to do with lease times or bad routing maybe?)
The wireless router is one of the black homehubs.
Any help appreciated as im having to write this post using my 3G connection to ensure i dont get dropped.
Thanks
Mike

This is the setup left by the engineer...

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