Graphite ABS seems to be the culprit.

I was about to post this story on the iChat AV board, but thinking more and more about the problem seems to point me to the Graphite ABS. Here's a synopsis:
Since 10.4.9, I have been largely handicapped using iChat AV: I can certainly connect to my buddies, the images appear (including mine) but after a few seconds, the fps drop as if I was using an old phone line modem: choppy. I've tried to quit the audio part and restart the conversation using audio signal only, with the same results.
This is annoying in itself, and as I've pointed above, I thought it was iChat's "fault". But now, I see the same results using Skype in bith audio only and AV. And to make the story more interesting yet, everything and anything connected to the net seems sluggish: in both Firefox and Safari, pages take a long time to load. Often times I'll see "loading 12 of 15 elements" in the lower part of a Safari page, and Safari hangs for several seconds before ultimately showing the entire page.
All of the above occurs on both the MacBook and the MacBook pro in the house.
There is one common element to this story: anytime I connect to the net from home or try to chat with 'current wife', one of us is on the Graphite ABS. One would argue that the ISP may have something to do with it, but I vferified with them and they ran a few tests: their system is good.
So that leaves the Graphite ABS and 10.4.9 as possible culprits. For what it's worth, I haven't done anything to the ABS since at least last year.
If someone can direct me to possible tests to find more about this problem, I'd appreciate.
* Guy

Tesserax.
Your answer is not entirely false, but it doesn't explain why everything was operating smoothly pre-10.4.9. Under 10.4.8, there were no difficulties using the net. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I seem to remember that Apple advertised improvements to Airport networks with 10.4.9. Or was that something else altogether?

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