Cable Forum - Latest & greatest wireless routers ....

I'm running an old Belkin wireless router, model number F5D7230-4. It has been great for many years. I get a really good range with it - my laptop works just fine from my garage 30m distant from my house! The built-in firewall has kept us safe from all evil ;)

However, it seems that time has come for an upgrade. I've got VM XL broadband. With a PC directly connected to the cable modem (255 model) I get up to 13Mb/s download. Same PC via the router sees 9Mb/s, and a wirelessly connected PC in another room now never achieves more than 4Mb/s.

I recall reading somewhere that older wireless routers had a limitation to the rate at which they could share the web connection? If so, I guess that this is what I'm seeing (the wireless network connection reports a LAN speed on that same PC of 54Mb/s, so it's not the actual wireless link itself).

I was never aware of the wireless PCs being slower on the web with the old modem on ntl 4Mb/s.

So, if I'm to buy a new wireless router, I might as well get the latest and greatest!

All the recommendations I've been able to find in the forum are for 54Mb/s routers.

I don't want to buy a new model based upon what appears to be a good specification only to then find some new problem.

A quick look in the web shops tonight shows for example the D-Link DIR-655 with up to 300Mb/s wireless; up to 5 times the range of g routers; gigabit to the wired PCs; 11 year warranty; easy wizard; install in seconds - is it too good to be true!?!?!?? :Yes:

Is anybody out there sharing XL successfully? (seeing same speeds on wired and wireless PCs)
And achieving faster than 54Mb/s wireless links?
And good wireless range?