Why is the download speed so different to the wireless router?

Apologies if this is not the correct location - newbie, so be gentle with me please!
My question relates to a wireless connection I have established with a Belkin 802.11g 54g wireless router. Airport configured incredibly easily BTW. Anyway, when I look at the router settings by entering the IP addess of the router, it tells me there is a DL data rate of about 3800, which i take to be 3.8gig. Upload is about 450. I am signed up to an "up to 8meg" ISP, so I know 3.8 is probably not that bad.
However, when I run a speed test on the DSL, it gives a performance around half that indicated on the router. Is that normal? The attenuation figure was 51 for DL and 29 for UL if that helps. I wondered if the 802.11g installed was the issue and whether 802.111n would improve this?
The same figures apply even when the router is connected to the main socket in the house rather than 3 floors up.
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2ghz intel core 2 duo 17 inch 1gb RAM 160GB HD

I'm using gigabit wired internet, with an appropriate network card and router, my firewall is completely disabled (both on my router and my pc) and I don't see why anti-virus should interfere with the download,
What is the general download speed normally received? Would you recommend using the browser download or the download manager?
I'm happy if this is just a "slow day" for adobe server or something, but my internet seems to be 100% fine as several other downloads I have tried have managed to get full speed even while the Adobe download is left running. (I obviously have had these other downloads off the majority of the time the adobe download has been running)
Cheers for the response,
Rob

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