Wifi extremely slow when not right next to the router?

Hey,
bought a new macbook air last week with Mountain Lion (I've fully updated it) and it seems to be having a few wi-fi problems. Although wifi speed is fine when in the same room as the router, the speed drops of significantly when in just the next room, and even small sites take about 10 seconds to load. I'm using an Virgin Media 54g router but the problem remains the same with a Belkin 54g router as well. The recieved speed in my room (a couple of floors up admittedly) is 11 and speedtest.net shows a 0.05mbps download speed and (strangely) a 1mbps upload speed when I can connect at all.I haven't yet had the oppurtunity to try n or 5ghz routers, but as the rest of the network uses the Virgin Media one, I'd like to be able to reliably connect to this.
I've tried suggestions online such as creating a new location, disabling bluetooth, tried a new user, a new router and renewing DHCP lease etc. but nothing seems to work.
Does anyone have any suggestions to try? I'm not sure if this is a software or hardware issue, but I thought this was the most appropriate place to put this.
Thanks in advance,
George Bryan

It's normal, of course, for Wi-Fi performance to fall off with distance between the client and the access point. Whether your MBA is performing normally can only be determined by taking it to an Apple Store or AASP for testing.

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