My wireless WRT54GL is sooooo slow.... pages rarely load completely

this thing seems to be getting slower and slower. it takes over 5 minutes to load a web page. i tried a range expander and that was actually worst... my signal is always good/very good with speeds 36 mbps. ive updated the firmware... are there any hacks i can try before i try to return this thing?
i had the cable co out here to test and they said everything was perfect.
im also constantly getting this message when trying to connect to sites.
The server at forums.linksys.com is taking too long to respond.
* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection.
* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.Message Edited by tdean16 on 01-28-200707:24 PM

That's much better now.
Am I correct assuming your network has still the SSID "linksys"? Are you using wireless security? The drastic change only by changing the channel looks to me as if you have somebody else with a "linksys" router in your proximity. Two routers with the identical SSID, with no wireless security on the same channel will very much interfere with each other as any traffic for "linksys" will always go to both routers and both routers will reply. Therefore if you are still running "linksys" as SSID you should really change it to something unique.
You could simply scan for other networks in your neighbor with your wireless client. Unplug your router for a moment from power to make sure that your router won't be listed. If you are using "linksys" and still your client shows a network "linksys" in the list of available networks (most likely it will even try to connect there) then you know you have somebody else with a Linksys router in default configuration. If that is actually the case you MUST change the SSID otherwise you will run into frequent problems everytime your wireless clients accidentally tries to connect to your neighbor's router.
For a secure operation of an wireless router
- you must change the SSID to something unique
- use WPA2 Personal or WPA Personal for encryption.
Only then you can be sure to connect to your router and not another and only you can connect and nobody else.

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