Using my windows laptop with my new Airport Etreme base station

I've just recently connected the Airport Extreme to my iMAC G4. I understand that it should work with my Windows laptop. I've set up the base station and do have a connection on my laptop with excellent "signal strength" and the speed, at best, is 54.0Mbps, although it's usually at 18.
I'm not getting internet on my laptop. Of course the whole idea of purchasing the AX was to use the laptop at home also. Previously I had a netgear and it worked fine, speed wise... until it crapped out for some reason.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Marco
iMac G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Just in case anyone is following this...
After speaking with my isp and getting to the purple.com website but no other one I was told by the man on the phone my problem must be a resource issue with my laptop. I said that wasn't possible as I already went into msconfig and unchecked almost everything in the startup tab.
So I tried to connect the laptop directly to the modem and I was able to surf the internet without a problem. So, as thought in the beginning, there's some setting somewhere in regards to the Airport Extreme that's not correct...
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8) Windows XP Laptop

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