Really weird connection problem

Hi, I'm having a really strange problem here - at least I think so. Recently one of my roommates bought a new wireless adapter (802.11g), which I would really like to use as it's faster than my old Airport Snow basestation (802.11b). I'm using a Powerbook G4 with an Airport Extreme card running OS X 10.4.7. Here's the actual issue: Whenever I try to connect to my roommates network my PB tells me everything's fine. I get full signal strength in the menu bar and Iternet Connect tells me that I#m connected to the network. When I try to use mail or a webbrowser, however, it doesn#t work. Mail tells me I#m not online and Safari comes up with an error message: #You are not connected to the internet.'
I know my Airport card works as I can use my own slower network. In addition, my roommates network also works as he has no problems using it. I should probably mention that he's using a PC notebook (Dell). If that works a Mac should too. Any ideas what's going on? What should/could I do? Do I have to change any settings/preferences? I know PCs give you a million things to change in order to go online.
Thx a lot for your help.

You may need to look into the System Preferences> Network control pane
and see what the configuration(s) are; the order of preference to use
dialup, ethernet, and airport/wireless. Also you may need to see how the
network controls "see" your local wireless connection once you select to
have the AirPort at the top of the list and set to connect via airport; plus
with the Airport icon set to appear in the menubar.
The "Network Port Configurations" is where you can see and checkbox
some of these items, and for others you'd need to look a little further and
wider. I seldom look into mine, even though I run between wireless and
ethernet and sometimes have dialup, airport and ethernet all active in this.
But only use one at a time, and primarily am using one means of connecting
to the internet active at once; chosing to uncheck boxes and/or drag the
order of them accordingly in the configuration panel.

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