got a linksys wrt54gl setup upstairs, hooked up to a cable modem. there's a linksys wireless-G network card on a pc and ps3 that i setup the wireless internet connection for, which are 2 floors downstairs, in the basement. according to the signal on the linksys wireless-G pci card, it has 3 out of 5 bars, and the connection is not always consistent, and it's slowww. like 56k slow at times, almost. and to make matters worse, on the PC that's wirelessly connected(which is running vista home), the connection sometimes goes away. meanwhile, on a laptop with windows xp home in the same room, this xp laptop has a good connection.
what can i do to improve the speed? i'll have to run more tests to see if it works better when closer to the router, but i've heard about DD-WRT. how much will the range increase on the router if i install the DD-WRT firmware? are there any other things i can do to make the pc and ps3 wireless connection faster? security wise, i'm only running a 64-bit WEP encryption and not showing the SSID.
i've looked on this site for info on dd-wrt;
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Installation#Downloading_DD-WRTthanks in advance.