Peculiar selective Broadband slowness - read for explanation

Hi,
This is really bizarre, I have no idea what this could be. My G5 is exhibiting a painfully slow Broadband connection, but only at certain times and on my machine. Let me explain:
We have my G5 and a Macbook Pro on a wireless router. Recently over the past couple months I have had some issues with the G5: kernel panics. I had gone through some troubleshootng, used DiskWarrior to rebuild, etc, with no clear resolution. Just as mysteriously as they started, the kernel panics have gradually disppeared. I mention this because it was a performance anamoly, and is perhaps related to the current issue, maybe not.
So now as I surf, it takes forever - as in dialup speed, to "connect" to a web page. Sometimes once it "accesses" the page, it then displays the code rapidly as I would expect. I click a link, it hangs for a while, then seems to finally send out the request, "finds" the page and loads it. Sometimes it is slow with fully displaying the page. Using the SpeedStat 2 widget, which displays outgoing and incoming data speeds, it seems to show that the page request that is sent out is delayed.
I have no problem with streaming, downloading, or email. That all exhibits a more consistent speed with Broadband. The problem is just surfing, and I mainly use Safari. Using Firefox the problem is worse, and from SpeedStat2 again, it seems that no request is even sent out, it just hangs and hangs.
This is weird because our Macbook Pro on the wireless connection is very fast, even wireless and three rooms away. So it seems to be my machine solely. Even the browsers themselves.
I don't know to call my service provider or Apple, but it's really frustrating. I don't know if it's the browsers, some networking configuration, my hardware, my service provider. It seems the Broadband connection is working correctly based on the evidence. Any advice would be really appreciated!
thank you
G5, dual 2Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Let me just emphasize one last time: in iTunes when I click on the Music Store, it takes f-o-r-e-v-e-r to load. As I click around in Safari again, it is v-e-r-y slow. It takes a long time to send out the request and the nsometimes in mid page it hangs again.
And most oddly our wireless Macbook Pro is lightning fast by comparison. Could it be cables or something?

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