Mac Pro Safari Network issues....

Not sure if this is a router problem/Safari or Mac Pro problem. When surffing the net it now takes for ever to download and surf in general. Cleared the Cache, reset Safari and tested modem, which seems to be coming in at 3-4 meg service.... After I click to post this thread it will take 40-50 secs or more just for this page to load. Recently did the samething with my old cable modem, currenly using DSL...
Thanks for any good direction.....
G.

Tiger Cache Cleaner is here:
http://www.northernsoftworks.com/tigercachecleaner.html
If you want to investigate any/all - I have, but I have found TCC to be reliable, never encountered a problem, always updated before any OS update even is out!
There are some other utilities for adjusting MTU and other factors, too much work and complex. And yes, Vista etc do seem to have a leg up. There are some modem chipset problems that affect Macs. Use to be some real bugs in the Lookupd daemon for a long time.
One of the reasons I played with SuSE and even installed Vista, just to see is something was an OS X only (and if you ISP sends someone out, they are Windows-only pretty much and next to nothing about Mac).
Even APC has better software for their UPS on Mac. Trouble with Vista is a lot of vendors just got tired and opted to wait until now to get their drives beyond basic-beta.
My guess is that Google MacIntouch/MacFixit (Apple Discussions have been painfully slow for two days so searching here could be a real root canal ordeal).
Even a cell phone or other device can interfere with wireless.
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