What bandwidth is reasonable on 802.11g?

In this post I was originally going to complain that I couldn't connect to my E4200 using the 'Wireless-N only' option, but upon closer inspection it turns out my wireless adapter (an Atheros AR5001) only supports a/b/g, even though the specs for my computer (an ASUS eeePC 901) claim otherwise.
Anyway, right now I get about 25 Mb/s on the wireless, which is still quite a bit lower than the theoretical 56 Mb/s. I am no more than 2-3 m away from the router, and I have line-of-sight at all times. I use WPA2 personal security and the 'Channel' and 'Channel width' options are both set to 'Auto'.
Would it be possible to achieve at least something like 40-50 Mb/s by tuning my settings, and if so, which settings should be changed to what?
Thanks in advance.
Edit: Oh yeah, and I have the latest firmware. (1.0.02)
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Well, 25 Mb/s is about 45% of theoretical, which is slightly dissatisfying. I'll see if any of the static channels give better performance. Is there any other setting I can change that might make a difference? (If I understand correctly, 802.11g only supports channel width 20 MHz, and I can't choose 40 MHz in the web interface anyway)

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