I currently have a Netgear 16bit piece'o'crap whose range and reception are not very good.
Range will not improve by switching to .11g, .11a or any other. It's a function of the quality of the RF hardware and the frequency and netgear's are some of the better ones. Moving to higher frequency (.11a, 5GHz?) will almost certainly decrease your range (higher frequencies don't go through walls as well).
The only way to significantly increase range is to back down to lower frequencies (900MHz?) which will consequently back down your carrying capacity and put you on one of the older standards that won't be compatible with what everyone else is doing today (802.11b, 2.4GHz).
I suppose you could also mount a better antenna on your card. The netgear is one that you can do that with. Google around for instructions.
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