X301 only connecting to Wireless-N network at Wireless G (54Mbps) speed

Need some help to figure this out. Just got my new x301 running Windows 7 Professional 64 bit - great machine. So far only one problem - won't connect at faster than 54Mbps to my wireless router (DLink DIR-655). The wireless adapter on the PC is Intel(r) wifi link 5100 agn.
I have 2 other computers which both are connecting at wireless-N speeds between 130 and 270Mbps depending on their mood (or wireless adapter) so I am reasonably confident the router, settings (e.g., WPA2 encryption, dual n/g mode, 20/40 Auto channel width) are generally fine. Despite this - the x301 gets stuck at 54Mbps. When I look at output of the adapter diagnostics for x301 it claims that my network/access point is of "unknown type". When I look on the router status page it says the PC is connected as wireless G. When I look at Access Connections it say the network is of type wireless N. In all cases though 54Mbps is reported as the connection speed. I have tried about everything I can think of and seen on various fora (e.g., mirror adapter settings people claim work, download and update driver from Intel, etc) but can't make a difference.
Any ideas regarding what I am missing would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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Thanks. I did finally get this to work. WMM setting in router was not enabled and changing that did it (no idea what it does though). That + playing around for a long time with various adapter and router settings I have gotten a reasonably steady connection at high speeds. Still not perfect as speed fluctuates more than it should, but reasonable performance. Getting this to work shouldn't be this hard, but I guess it is. If I had known ahead of time that one needs to be a network engineer to figure this out I would have stuck with a steady 54Mbps connection and not worried about it.
Agree with notion that sometimes less is more - in particular if one values personal time away from various configuration pages. Opportunity for somebody to create simple, 5th grade level software that can take care of these kind of things.
All this aside - my new x301 is by far the best computer I have had so not all bad.

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