Wireless ADSL router

Hi.
Can anyone recommend a wireless router (not Netgear!) that works exceptionally well with Mac's.
I have a G5 iMac and a 'late 2008' MacBook. When I first got the MacBook it worked like a dream online... perfect internet connection and always top-speed. Since a few software updates (presumably) the MacBook has been getting worse and worse at connecting to the internet. I know it's not my internet connection causing the problem, my ISP has checked it on numerous occasions and everything is fine.
When I connect to the router using an ethernet cable it's works flawlessly 9.5 times out of 10. Wirelessly using Airport? I'm lucky if it works for more than 10 minutes at a time and when it does the internet connection CRAWLS. I should be getting 1.1mb a second (it has happened, I have seen it), but it starts at maybe 400k a second and slowly gets slower until it's about 20k a second then stops.
I have to restart both the router AND the laptop to get it working again.
I know these boards have been awash with people moaning how bad it all is, and I was pinning my hopes on 10.5.7 sorting the problem out but it hasn't.
I remember reading somewhere that someone swapped their Netgear router for another brand and it solved the problem... can someone who either has experienced these problems and solved them with a new router recommend something or maybe someone out there has never experienced this and has a happy internet life with their original hardware setup.
I can't see Apple fixing this and whilst I begrudge having to spend money to fix something that didn't used to happen I feel it is the only way to resolve this – a small outlay for a happy life is well worth it – I need my connection!!!
Thanks.

Hi again,
well, i don't know. it might be worth the effort, but it costs also quite a number of bugs ... And at the end the Apple devices should work just to the same specs as all others since they comply with some standard 811-blabla. --
Could you try with an AE which you can borrow from a friend? that might give you an impression of what the situation might become before you spend the money.
In my Airport express i can chose the channel number, and i can go to a different region of the spectrum (i think that is meant with channel). this certainly had an influence, when i set up my system (it runs now for 4 years, i think). I don't know whether this is possible for all wireless routers. You could also think in changing the location and/or orientation of your wireless modem or of the computers.
Another thing which i would try, probably before the others: go with the laptop close to the base station, and then increase the distance in some steps. Take enough time at each step to make sure you have stable conditions - or to make sure it is already fading away. Also make sure that there is no wall with iron between the base station and your computers..
Last not least: you see 10+ networks; there might be "hidden" ones as well. are they all connected to the same cabletree? (in my place it would be so). Then you can calculate that the maximum speed which YOU see, at best can be the providers speed divided by 10+ (or even 20). Well, i know, it is more complex than this, but many users on the same provider cable share this cable, and can suffer, when theire are too many users ...
Hope this helps
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