Super Slow Connection - But not My Broadband's fault... any ideas?

I just had the cable guy out who proved that I was getting 4.5 Mbps straight from the cable modem. Using my Airport express 50 feet from my iMac (20 inch intel chip) computer, however, I only get a transfer rate of 480k. What is going on? I have reset the Express base station, and have selected b and g for transmission, but there is clearly a problem. I could have full bars of signal strength, but still a insanely low transfer speed. If I can't figure this out soon I will be taking the Express back to complain... which I don't want to do because I am so happy with all of my other Apple components.

Hi,
I've been having the same problem with my intel iMac. The real frustrating part is that I've had the AE for over a year and it worked great with my windows desktop that the iMac replaced, and continues to work well with my windows laptop. I don't think it is a reception or interference problem because the windows laptop is still faster, even when sitting next to the iMac. The reception bars are spiked and I downloaded a widget that tracts the Mbps rate of the network and that never falls below 36 Mbps, but still the surfing is very slow. I've seen several posts on this discussion board relating the same problem with the mac intels and have called tech support but no help. Anybody else have any ideas to fix the wireless connection to the iMac?
I read another post that suggested a work around type fix by getting a ethernet router and wiring the desktop to the ethernet cable and sending another cable to the AE for the laptop internet connection. I wonder if this would interfer with the other functions of the AE that I'm pleased with (bonjour printer sharing and airtunes)?
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