MK, I had a weird problem with my NetGear 614 router. It suddenly slowed down my internet transfer rate. I thought is was the ISP, but the tech convinced my otherwise and I connected the modem to my main pc and voila. I hooked up my back up router, a Belken and it was fast. Then I updated the firmware in the netgear. I hadn't done it in the past because there was always an error. Finally, I restored factory defaults and it upgraded. AFter that it returned to normal speeds. I use
www.toast.net/performance to check speed.
Make sure you've got the laterst firmware.
Before I upgraded the firmware I was getting thruput rates half what was availble from my IsP.
I bought Net Gear, gave away my D-Link and LinkSys because I thought NG was better. I do like my Belkin, but keep it just as a back up.