WRT160N: Wireless Works Great, Wired is Slow

I replaced my old Linksys 8-port router with a wireless WRT160N so that my iPhone would have Wi-Fi in the house. (AT&T network isn't great where I live.)
My iPhone screams now, great connectivity. But, my two desktops which are connected directly to the router are crawling. Pages take forever to load and often fail to load graphics.
A friend suggested I hook the wireless onto the old router and run both, but I want to get the wireless to work correctly on it's own.
Any suggestions at what I can tweak to get the router to run the wired PC's faster?
Message Edited by Mars on 02-23-2009 01:05 PM
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Here's the fix. I did the firmware downgrade and everything is working well.

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I installed firmware 2.0.02 and configured my WRT160N using the instructions from this post:
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However, I have a desktop that is connected to one of the Ethernet ports on the back of the router, and I’m having problems with this.
When I first start using the desktop after boot-up, or after sitting for a long time, I open IE and I get a “Page Can Not be Displayed” error. Sometimes if I press Refresh a few times it starts working. Other times, it doesn’t start working until I login to the Linksys. All I do is login to the Linksys, I don’t change anything or do anything except login, then the Internet works fine from my desktop.
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