Macbook and linsys wrt54g v5 wireless router

I was getting random lockups when my macbook used my wireless router. I did some research on the internet and discovered it was a very common problem. There were various solutions that seemed to work for people, but I figred one out that is very easy to do. I changed a setting in the wirless section of my router under the advanced settings.. original value for beacon interval was 100 msec I changed it to 90 msec and all is working well. No lockups on the router in 2 days so far. My firmware version on the router is 1.02.0 .
Hope this helps someone.
Does anyone know how I can change these same settings on the macbook?
Jeff
macbook black   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  
macbook black   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

i traded with a friend of mine for a wrt54g v4 router so i could use hyperwrt firmware instead of being stuck with the linksys firmware. there was nothing compatable with v5 and i had the same problem,no problems anymore tho. v5 does suck tho, no problems with the macbook.

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