Very slow ADSL Internet connection on my Mac mini

Hello,
At home I have a little network with 4 Macs; one iMac G4, one iMac G5, one PowerBook G4 and one Mac mini (Intel dual core 1 GB).
The "old" PPC based Macs is running at 2500 kbit/s on Internet but my new Mac mini is "running" on 100-200 kbit/s.
- That is a 1/20 speed compared with the other older Macs.
My network is wire-based. That is a NOKIA ADSL modem (M5112), and a Dray Tek Vigor 2000 isdn Router with 6 ports.
One other thing. The download-speed from Internet is very varying; it downloads a second or two, then it stops and wait a second or two before it continue.
I have tested the speed on different speed-testers and over several days.
Please gi me some advice if you have any.
Best regards,
Kjetil Pettersen
Norway
e-mail [email protected]
Mac Mini - Intel Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I need to post a response to my previous post. My connection problem has been solved and it was the standard answers I usually give to newbies:
I was on the phone with my ISP to see if I could manually input the DNS Servers settings as another user mentioned this. The wait time was incredibly long... of course... so while I waited, I reset (unplugged) the DSL modem then the Router. I've done this recently, but this solved the problem instantly this time. You may want to try this even if you've done it before. I can't believe it worked. We'll see if it "sticks" this time.

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