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I recently bough a new Compaq laptop and set up a wireless N network using the Linksys WRT300N wireless router and the Linksys WUSB300N wireless adapter for my laptop.  My Dell desktop (about 5 years old and connected wired to the router) is running Win XP (SR2 and all patches/updates) and my laptop is running Vista Home Premium (with all updates).
I've successfully set up my network and can communicate with the router, check settings, etc and even fixed my problem connecting to the Internet.
However, whenever I logon to my laptop I get 2 separate network connections that display for my home network (actually a few more weak networks also show up but I ignore those).  I get one for the 802.11 b/g that is built into my laptop and a I get a second network connection showing for my Linksys USB adapter.  However both are showing at only the b/g speed.  My built-in laptop connection allows local & internet access, but my Linksys USB connection only allows local access.
I tried using the browser interface for the router settings to set my router & laptop from WPA-Personal to both WPA2-Personal thinking that the WPA may be degrading the signal to only "G" speed.  I figure that perhaps my laptop is only allowing one Internet connection even though it is allowing 2 simultaneous local connections.  Unfortunately the Internet connection is with the built-in laptop connection.
I turned off Windows built-in firewall(s) and have Zone Alarm free and Avast anti-virus running on each (desktop and laptop).
How can I get my laptop to recognize my WUSB300N Linksys USB "wireless 'N'" connector at the wireless 'N' speeds.  I don't mind having my laptop's built-in wireless b/g active also, but would prefer to have the wireless N system/connectoin be the default/primary when we're at home on our own network.
Thanks!

Hi Toomanydonuts.  Thanks for the info.  I ended up trying several more things late last night that first made things worse, but then improved.
I already had given my network an SSID and it had 4/5 or 5/5 bars (others in the area only had 1/5 bars), so I was good on that part.  I tried running diagnotics from the CD-ROM and then re-installing the router & network adapters from the CDs (using the Setup wizard), but I think somewhere in the uninstall & re-install it made things worse.
When I couldn't connect at all from the laptop to the router anymore, I ended up using Windows restore to set my laptop back to the configuration a few days ago.  I then temporarily turned off the ZA firewall and also turned off WPA security on the router & laptop (to none).  When I did this, Windows Vista (laptop) then prompted me if my network was a "Home", "Office" or "Public" network.  When I selected "Home", it immediately changed the network icon to a house and eliminated the second connection.  I was then able to re-enable WPA security on both the router and the laptop and had my one network connection working for "local" and "internet".  
As additional security, I enabled MAC wireless security for the router using the laptop's MAC address.  An odd thing though, I now have 2 computers (in addition to my home PC & router) listed as the same name as my laptop name, but with 2 different MAC addresses.  Only the MAC address of the laptop (I got from doing an ipconfig/all in the cmd window), wired desktop & router are highlighted as part of the network.  The 4th computer with the same name as the laptop but with a different MAC address is grayed out.
I think part of the problem was that I enabled the WPA security before the network setup was "ready" for it.  I also updated the driver for the WUSB300N adapter from the Nov 06 version to a Jun 07 version.
For some reason I'm still only getting wireless b/g (at least listed as such on my connection/network properties screen) speed for connectivity even though it appears to be using the WUSB300N Linksys adapter.  I will try to manually disable the built-in wireless adapter to see if that helps.  Is it possible to set up the configuration so when I'm at home I can use my Linksys wireless N adapter but when we're away from the house (connecting any network other than mine) it would then use the built-in laptop adapter?
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