Airport Extreme and Netgear DG834G v2 very slow

Hi,
I've just bought an iMac 17" dual core and I'm having problems with slow download speeds when connecting to my wireless network: I have an Airport Extreme card and a wireless ADSL Netgear DG834G v2 router. All my machines on this network all have acceptable download speed but when I use my mac, the download speed is very poor. For example, I tried to download a file on my XP machine and got a rate of ~250kb/sec but when I use the mac, I get ~40kb/sec. In general, internet browsing on the mac is very slow.
Things I've tried:
1) Plugged the mac into ethernet and that is working fine so the wireless connection seems to be the problem.
2) Put the XP machine and mac (both working wirelessly) at the same location - the mac is considerably slower than the xp machine.
3) I've downloaded and installed all the latest updates and firmware for the mac but this has made no difference.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can try next?
Regards
calumr
iMac 17" dual core Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Got it working - just needed to upgrade firmware of my router.
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