Slow Internet Even After Re-Install of OS X

I'm new to Mac and I was a first-time buyer in August when I got my Macbook. Within the last couple weeks my internet slowed dramatically, whereas my mom's laptop (three or four years old, HP) was still getting good speed. I read up on all the forums and it seemed that the people who had the same problem attributed it to their 10.4.10 update. I have Comcast high speed, and a Netgear router. I already checked the modem and router, and I tried a lot of the solutions listed on other forums, including an archive+install. That didn't do anything so I backed up all my stuff and completely re-installed Tiger, hoping it'd work. So I've spent hours doing this, and backing up things on my flash drive and iPod and everything, and I come online and I've still got that totally peculiar delay in pages loading. My download speed has ranged from 20 kb/s to 180 kb/s, so I can't understand why it's still doing this, especially after a complete re-install. It doesn't do it in my mom's laptop, and not even in my old, almost-dead dell laptop.
I refrained from downloading any of the software updates it presented me with after I re-installed at 10.4.9, because I didn't want to ruin any of the hard work I did. Apparently, the hard work I did was completely in vain.
I would really appreciate help on this, and I can try to give any other information I haven't provided yet.
I haven't done the update for the airport card or a few other updates, so if someone thinks it's all right for me to do that - or even beneficial - please let me know.
My Mac's info:
Model Identifier: MacBook2,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 1 GB

Oh, no! I didn't mean to post it in the iBook section, I'm sorry! D: I'm totally new to the forums thing, I'm really, really sorry.

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