Can we please have a FINAL solution to slow internet in Snow Leopard?

I've read so many discussions but none of the proposed solutions work for me.
I installed Snow Leopard a few days ago and ever since internet pages take forever to load.
Before SL my internet was running perfectly. I have the same strength connectivity, my router didn't budge and I didn't even move my laptop location. I'm convinced it is SL and I am not happy that I may have to uninstall it and have wasted $30.
I also couldn't believe that there is no way to contact Apple in a way they can respond. They're just leaving the solutions up to regular users and maybe offering an update if a few million people complain.
Anyways, does anyone have a solution to Slow Leopard?

WEB100 Enabled Statistics:
Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
checking for firewalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
running 10s outbound test (client-to-server [C2S]) . . . . . 354.0kb/s
running 10s inbound test (server-to-client [S2C]) . . . . . . 1.55Mb/s
------ Client System Details ------
OS data: Name = Mac OS X, Architecture = x86_64, Version = 10.6.2
Java data: Vendor = Apple Inc., Version = 1.6.0_17
------ Web100 Detailed Analysis ------
Cable modem/DSL/T1 link found.
Link set to Full Duplex mode
Information: throughput is limited by other network traffic.
Good network cable(s) found
Normal duplex operation found.
Web100 reports the Round trip time = 225.94 msec; the Packet size = 1440 Bytes; and
There were 65 packets retransmitted, 295 duplicate acks received, and 309 SACK blocks received
The connection was idle 0 seconds (0%) of the time
S2C throughput test: Packet queuing detected: 2.41%
This connection is sender limited 37.36% of the time.
This connection is network limited 62.63% of the time.
Web100 reports TCP negotiated the optional Performance Settings to:
RFC 2018 Selective Acknowledgment: ON
RFC 896 Nagle Algorithm: ON
RFC 3168 Explicit Congestion Notification: OFF
RFC 1323 Time Stamping: ON
RFC 1323 Window Scaling: ON
Server 'web100.rit.edu' is not behind a firewall. [Connection to the ephemeral port was successful]
Client is probably behind a firewall. [Connection to the ephemeral port failed]
Information: Network Middlebox is modifying MSS variable
Server IP addresses are preserved End-to-End
Information: Network Address Translation (NAT) box is modifying the Client's IP address
Server says [217.235.176.70] but Client says [192.168.2.102]
Bandwidth speed: http://www.speedtest.net/result/686123629.png
There is another computer (PC) and it is running normally.
File download speed is fine.
By slow I mean 1 minute 15 seconds to load a page. It's only pages with a lot of pictures, but they were fast before.

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