Is just my airport extreme?

This is my setup:
I have my apple laptop and my pc desktop hooked up to my wireless linksys router. I have a 8.0Mbps cable connection hooked into the router. My laptop is connected via my built-in airport extreme and my pc is hooked up through a hardwired ethernet cable.
This is my problem:
My pc and my friends pc laptops connect to the wireless network with blazing speeds. I'm very happy with my PC connections. However, even though my laptop downloads files with blazing speeds, it surfs the web very slowly ESPECIALLY when initially connecting to every page I go to (except if it's saved in cache). It's gotten to be very annoying. It would take 5 to 10 seconds to connect to www.apple.com, but once it connected it would just all show up right away.
I can't figure out what is wrong. I tried to hardwire the laptop via ethernet cable and turn off airport, but it did the samething.
Any suggestions?

It sounds like it might be a DNS issue.
In a browser try http://17.254.0.91
and report back
iFelix

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