Slow downloads, fast uploads with WRT160N/macbook

I posted this on the Apple support forum and never heard anything, so I hope you guys can help me...
I had AT&T DSL and used their wireless modem, then recently switched to cable and got the WRT160N. I am using a white macbook from early 2008 (pre-aluminum) OS X 10.5.6, 2.4 GHz, 4GB RAM, and my roommate has a similar white macbook (not sure on the stats), though his is a year or two older. While on DSL, I never noticed much problem with speed, but now that I've got cable, pages seem to load slower than DSL.
So, I did some testing and found on www.speedtest.net that my downloads are usually in the 900-1200kb/s range, while uploads are 6,000-8,000kb/s (upload FASTER than download). There have been occasions where I have gotten faster (up to 14,000ish for download), but >99% of the time it's in the slow range I listed. However, when I use a wired connection, it is fast (14,000+ download), my roommate using his macbook wirelessly is fast (I think he got 12,000+ download speed the one time I had him do the test), and when I took my macbook to another wireless network (at a hospital I was rotating at), it was downloading at about 10,000. My upload speeds are relatively consistent throughout. I also tried the cnet download speed page once or twice and saw similar results.
So, brief summary: It seems that only my download speed is affected, and only when it's MY macbook and MY home wireless network.
Thanks in advance!

Yeah, laptop to router via cable is very fast, at times >20,000 kbps dowloads.
The only thing that seems to be problematic is the:
-download speed
-with wireless to
-(only) my laptop
-only on that router/network.
Upload speeds are fine throughout, downloads are fine when it's wired, it's fine when I take it somewhere else and use wireless, and my roommate's macbook works great on this network...so I'm guessing it's some combination of those variables that's causing this?

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Tracing route to google.com [173.194.123.71]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms FIOS_Quantum_Gateway.fios-router.home [192.168.1
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2     5 ms     7 ms     6 ms lo0-100.NYCMNY-VFTTP-316.verizon-gni.net [108.6.
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6     9 ms     8 ms     6 ms 2.ae1.XT1.NYC4.ALTER.NET [140.222.228.119]
7    20 ms    11 ms    11 ms TenGigE0-6-0-6.GW8.NYC4.ALTER.NET [152.63.21.61]
8     8 ms     7 ms     9 ms google-gw.customer.alter.net [152.179.72.62]
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10    11 ms     8 ms     9 ms 72.14.252.27
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20     *        *        *     Request timed out.
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27     *        *        *     Request timed out.
28     *        *        *     Request timed out.
29     *        *        *     Request timed out.
30     *        *        *     Request timed out.
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