Linksys Wireless Woes

Moved my PC to another room which was out of range of my existing (2 year old) wireless network. Added a WMP300N due to it's extended range and planning on upgrading my wireless network to "N" in the future anyway.
The future came sooner than expected (1 1/2 weeks). Had problems with new card so I tried to solve by adding a WRT350N router and a WPC300N for the Laptop. Still cannot get the WMP300N to work. Signal is good but speed is only 1mbps and keeps trying to acquire an IP. Any suggestions how to improve connection?
(Edited post for guideline compliance. Thanks!)
Message Edited by JOHNDOE_06 on 12-28-2007 08:37 AM

try changing the wireless settings on the router
SSID - any unique name
radio band - wide
wide channel - 9
standard channel - 11
beacon interval - 50
fragmentation threshold - 2306
RTS threshold - 2307
N -Transmission rate - Max speed
Also , the firmware of the router should be latest..

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