Slow wifi on Snow Leopard iMac

I have just moved into a new house and have a new isp. Everything is installed and working great but I'm haveing speed issues, only on my iMac. We are supplied with a 30mbps internet connection and most of the time get that. I have tested it on my MacBook and 30mbsp or there abouts is what I always acheive but I am struggeling to get internet at all on my iMac. The iMac is newer and I didn't have any problems before in my old home. I have tested the speeds with the iMac and MacBook placed next too each other and generally I only get 1mbps on the iMac and 30mbps on the MacBook. What could be causeing this and what could I do the fix the issue?

A Robinson wrote:
Spoken to a few other people on the road and pretty much everyone has Virgin Media's 'Super Hub' or what ever it is called and they're all having the same issues.
Andy,
I've heard (read) on other discussions here that people using that Virgin Hub report issues with Snow Leopard and Lion.
Could you eventually check if the Virgin unit provide a own network name e.g. "home" or "workgroup", please?
If the settings of the Virgin contain such a configuration, you should change that (if possible) to "local" to match your Mac's settings.
Cheers - Lupunus
PS ... just read ...
Eventually switch to 802.11n only if you hav no iPhone connected.-> http://help.virginmedia.com/system/selfservice.controller?CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTIC LE_ID=345031&CURRENT_CMD=SEARCH&CONFIGURATION=1002&PARTITION_ID=1&USERTYPE=1&LAN GUAGE=en&COUNTY=us&VM_CUSTOMER_TYPE=
and check that -> http://help.virginmedia.com/system/selfservice.controller?CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTIC LE_ID=245776&CURRENT_CMD=SEARCH&CONFIGURATION=1002&PARTITION_ID=1&USERTYPE=1&LAN GUAGE=en&COUNTY=us&VM_CUSTOMER_TYPE=
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