Problems connecting to Netgear DGN1000

I've just moved house. In my old house we had a Virgin Media "super hub", and all my devices connected fine. We now have a Netgear DGN1000 and my laptops have trouble connnecting;

• One laptop is a Samsung, running 12.04, using the wl driver.
• The other is an ASUS, running 12.10, using the iwlwifi driver.
• Both devices have difficulty connecting. They sometimes connect sporadically, but are very slow (1-2 seconds to ping another device on the LAN) and drop connection before too long.
• Wired connections work fine
• We've got 3 Android devices which all work fine over wireless
• The Samsung also has Windows 7, which works fine
• Changing the channel of the Wifi seems to help, but it doesn't completely solve the problem (and has never been necessary before, even in a built-up area with lots of other networks nearby)

For a reason I can't explain, this seems to be Ubuntu-specific. Any ideas?

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There might be a problem with your router's wifi channel. Try to change it.

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