Wireless Connection - Ping Woes

[puppy]

Hi folks, just bought a Belkin F5D7633UK 802.11g router and a Belkin F5D7001UK Wireless PCI Card.

Kit setup was quite simple, and Windows Wireless Zero Config shows an "excellent" connection, with a data rate of between 48-56mbps.

Website loading and downloads seem fine but gaming pings are a real issue - when I am wired to the router over ethernet my pings are < 10ms, but when gaming over wireless the pings are between 200ms and 600ms!!! I'm moving soon and will be completely relying on a wireless connection, and I don't want to give up gaming.

Does anyone know what might be going wrong? I'm looked in the "advanced" settings for the wireless card and it seems to have about 40 options, none of which are explained in the manual (what a surprise!).

Any help/ideas really appreciated

Pups

 

[puppy]

OK

Some more info - pinging the router over the ethernet gives pings of <1ms, this is the output when pinging the router over the wireless, no other processes are active:

Pinging 192.168.2.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.2.1: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.2.1: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=64
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 192.168.2.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 2, Lost = 2 (50% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 28ms, Maximum = 53ms, Average = 40ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Pete>ping 192.168.2.1

Pinging 192.168.2.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.2.1: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.2.1: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=64
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 192.168.2.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 2, Lost = 2 (50% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 9ms, Maximum = 41ms, Average = 25ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Pete>ping 192.168.2.1

Pinging 192.168.2.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.2.1: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=64
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.2.1: bytes=32 time=58ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.2.1: bytes=32 time=528ms TTL=64

What the hell is with this connection??