WRT160N and intermittent internet connections (even wired!!!)

I just purchased and installed the LinkSys WRT160N router to replace an older Netgear wireless 'G' router.
The reason for the replacement / upgrade was simply to have the wireless signal reach the rest of my house. We do not have any 'N' receivers/adapters in our devices.
After installing the router, email works fine, but internet access is spotty.
Most of the time when I navigate to a new page, I have to "refresh" multiple times.
My ISP (Comcast) says that everything is fine from their end.
I have powered off and on my modem, router, PC's, etc. countless times and yet cannot get a consistent connection even when directly wired to the router.
Before I return this router and try another brand, I thought I'd post a message here to see if there are any suggestions. I have not upgraded the firmware and am using the router as purchased two days ago.
I am using Firmware version 2.0.02 and the router is WRT16oNv2.

I have had the same problem...with the same model (WRT160N) for months now (since I bought it). No Problems on the end of our ISP either. Our problem is ONLY when it is wired. My PC is wired to the router. Xbox 360 used to be wired but problems were solved when we bought an adapter for it. All of our wireless works fine. My husband refused to return it since he had no trouble with his Iphone or laptop. The PC still gets shotty connection. We have talked with tech support at both Linksys and Geek Squad (they set up security options for us) with no avail. They had us try everything and nothing worked. Now my solution is to unplug the router and wire my pc to the modem...hoping he will get irritated enough to buy another router and brand when he has to plug it all back in to use his laptop or Iphone. Sad, we bought this one because we heard it was the best! I guess we should have done more homework on it.
I got on here today hoping to find new ways to fix this problem that we haven't tried. So far, no luck. I'm starting to think it has nothing to do with some setting changes and it is just a bad piece of equipment.

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