I'm seriously getting annoyed with my 802.11b home network. My house is a 2-story bungalo with finished basement. My Netgear wireless router is currently ~30 feet away and one floor above me but I lose my connection all the time. It's not cool when I'm doing big file transfers from one computer to another or doing an empeg sync and then have to run fsck. The cards I have in my two notebooks are pretty old, but all the firmwares are up to date...

Is there a cheap way I can get better range out of these things? Are one of those attennas going to pushing into the price range of going 2.4Ghz?