Thanks for the advice guys... I spent most of the afternoon looking at this (I'd be fired if work knew)
And for the sake of £30 or so it looks like "Super G" may be a better option....anyone got any experience of these routers... DLINK looks very well rated so I have found this two at Simply...
http://www.simply.co.uk/productinfor...PTER/index.htm
http://www.simply.co.uk/productinfor...EWAY/index.htm
I will use the laptop occassionally out in the garden/shed to stream MP3's etc... thats about....30metres or so from the STB and router so I'd still want a reliable WLAN connect.... standard G seems to fluctuate a fair bit from what reviews I have seen.