Macbook and Belkin Pre-N Router

I need some help. I have been using a Belkin Pre-N router over the last few years, and have ben happy with the product. The other day, I had to reset it, and, I also put the router on channel 11 because of possible router interference with other wireless homes on my street. This was with the help from Belkin support.
The router is running excellent supporting two desktop computers running Vista Business, and XP Pro. There are two laptops running Vista Home Premium, and XP Pro. The wireless response is great. The activity level is minimum, with no more then 2 computer running at one time.
I have a Macbook running Mac OS 10.5.6
Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook2,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB21.00A5.B07
SMC Version: 1.17f0
Airport Information:
AirPort Card Information:
Wireless Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x87)
Wireless Card Locale: USA
Wireless Card Firmware Version: 1.4.8.0
Current Wireless Network: TP
Wireless Channel: 11
My MAC is running slow in a wireless made, it was alway lightning fast, and I don’t know what to do to correct the problem.
Some web site fill in quickly, other are very slow, and many times, I need to do a refresh to get the entire page displayed.
Any thought on what might be the problem? I use Safari - version 3.2.1  Thanks in advance,
Tom

Pretty sure (not totally) that it may be the 10.5.6 update/safari rather than just the router - but that said, resetting the router might have dropped it to b, g, or or disabled the "n"... I mean, the router isn't operating at it's max speed. My iMac does pretty well on G.
Windows did pretty well on B too, within 20-30 feet... as long as nobody turned on a light or anything harsh....
Like I have a b-g router, so I set it to G manually rather than auto... which would drop it to b for the whole house if I inadvertently used a b setting on an older WAP.
I kinda need to upgrade everything, on a one thing budget.. hmmm...

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