I know this is an odd place to request this kind of help, but I figured I'd give it a shot since Verizon doesn't seem to be helping any...

My girlfriend's and my room is directly over the "office" which is where my Verizon router is. There are no cordless phones near it. I make sure that all "extraneous" equipment (such as my dad's bass amps which are also in that room) and other peripherals are shut off when not in use.

My old room is down the hall from our room. Neither of us ever experience connectivity issues there.

We also have Linksys access point setup in my dad's room, which is right next to my old room. This makes a grand total of 2 (two) wireless networks on my home. I have set it up and made sure the channels do not interfere with each other.

Alright now that you have the physical setup in mind, here's the actual issue:

My girlfriend and I are both using clean, virus-free, error-free Macbooks running OSX 10.6. We have no issues anywhere in our house except in our room. While in our room, we experience slow speeds (as low as 36 kbps down/up) and intermittent connectivity. When mine works, hers doesn't, and vice versa.

I have to go in and delete/re-add the wireless network several times, restart the computer, powercycle the Verizon router, and after about an hour, everything works, but only for a little while. Once I fix one of our computers, the other one will start having issues. It is very frustrating.

My girlfriend is at home right now and just ran two speed tests, 5 minutes apart.

First results were 16 megs down, 140 kbps up
Second results were 910 kbps down, 140 kbps up.

My brother is in the room right next to ours. His speeds seem to be constant at 11 megs down.

I work for an ISP, and I know that very rarely does the computer have anything to do with the speeds. As stated, my Macs are clean: virus and error-free. Also the walls are sheet rock, not brick or concrete. Also, when I say we are right above the office, I mean my floor is the office ceiling.

That was a lot of reading, and I apologize. Here's my question: does anyone else have similar issues? I can login to the Verizon router, but does anyone know what settings I should change in order to ensure everyone shares the bandwidth equally?