Can i upgrade a power mac g5 to snow leaopard

I am trying to add a new linksys router ea3500 and it will not run the setup utility becasue it says my "architecture is not compatible....will upgrading to snow leaopard help? or is my computer just too old for this?

You cannot use 10.6/SL at all it equires an Intel CPU, not an IBM CPU in our G5s, but you really don't need that App/Utilty...
Operating System
• Windows XP with Service Pack 3
• Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 and later (32 and 64-bit)
• Windows 7 (32 and 64-bit)
• Mac Tiger 10.4.11
• Mac Leopard 10.5.8
• Mac Snow Leopard 10.6.1
• Mac Lion OS X
http://www6.nohold.net/Cisco2/GetArticle.aspx?docid=aca5e5197cc342d1957797b57ed8 3b8d_Getting_to_know_the_Linksys_EA3500.xml&pid=84&converted=0
To get to a Web based setup page, put this in any Browser's Url bar & hit enter...
192.168.1.1.

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