What's with the network - nearly time to return to a PC

I have a D-link modem and an airport express router.
Before recently moving house I updated to 10.5.2 and thats when the trouble started. I would regularly get port timed out on my mail and safari was unreliable. It would hang, be slow and randomly not load pages that were previously loading. This also occurs on Firefox.
After relocating I re-installed leopard and had a new ISP. It worked fine for about 4 weeks and now it has returned to the same old crap that was happening before. However there is one shining light: when I directly connect the ethernet cord into the laptop it works fine. Does this mean there is a problem with the airport express?
Any hints would be appreciated. "work out of the box" - I don't think so.
Cheers
Andrew

Many people are complaining about 10.5.2 and airport connections and there may be a problem that was introduced with this update. I don't recall when 10.5.2 first came out but I know that right after we returned to work after Christmas Break that lots of students and staff members were complaining about their WiFi connections - not just Mac users either.
Just coincidentally I'd noticed that whereas a year ago mine was the only network my MacBook saw when I'm at home, after Christmas I could see three others. Not having a clue if this was the problem others were having, I suggested that they change their base station channel based on the assumption that they were getting interference or their computer was trying to latch onto a temporarily stronger signal. It has helped a lot of them.

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