Ask MeCha: wireless router that doesn't suck? →[More:]

so, we (sort of) have teh internets back at chez lfr. Except for when our Netgear router is acting flaky.

Simple issue: we need fast, reliable wireless to play nice with both machines. Wired/Cat5 isn't really an option, owing to house logistics. I have a macbook pro circa. 2 years ago, he has an old crappy Windows 2000 desktop circa about 1999. Owing to the obsolescence of his machine, I dunno that a wireless-N device would work too great.

The netgear works... sort of... except when it doesn't. It tends to just randomly/intermittently drop the signal, and sometimes it loads v e r y s l o w l y . . . and we've tried fussing with the antenna and it's not a proximity issue (it does it with my macbook when I'm sitting right next to the damned thing) but it was free, so we weren't inclined to look a gift horse, etc...

prior to that, we had a Dlink that just Didnotwork.

at this point money's not really an issue, I'm tired of fighting with it, I just want the damned connection to work, plug-n-play, no futzing around with it. Dear wireless geek gurus, link me to your awesome, plz!

We have Comcast DSL, for the record.