I actually whipped up one of these:
http://www.freeantennas.com/projects...surfer_Pic.JPG
I didn't think it would work but I got a solid extra bar out of it! Still not good enough though - still only 2 bars.
But now I know the problem is not the router or location. I am trying to work outside, and when I brought the laptop from outside to inside it immediatly went from 2 bars to 5. I realized that I have metallic tint on my windows, so I think I need to find another solution - like actually putting a wire from the antenna to the outside back portch and see if that works. If it does, I could just make a line to my attic, run it across the attic then poke the line to the outside somehow.
Here is a genius idea I just thought of, hook the atenna to the ground wire of the house. Ok, I'm kidding but it just came to mind as something you would see on fark.com :-)