Very Slow Wireless on New MacBook Pro

Hi just bought a 13' MacBook pro about a week ago. Immediatley from getting it my wireless internet is very slow. We have a few other pc's in the house that use the same router and they all run fine on the wireless, even our phones run great. When I am plugged in with the ethernet cable the internet seems to work fine but as soon as I am wireless it takes forever. Pages will take minutes to load up. I was on the phone with mac support and what they did didn't seem to fix the problem. I am getting so frustrated and would really like any help. Thank you.

In the Belkin config, have you got 'Protected Mode' On or Off? (Wireless > Channel and SSID > Protected Mode) It's generally faster Off unless a lot of 802.11b devices on your network.
Packet loss or packet re-ordering might cause that drop, as might a high MTU value, but it's hard to troubleshoot ...
(I'm using a Belkin G+MIMO and getting as fast/same performance as hard wired machines)

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Pierre G. wrote:
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4058 top          5.2   00:03.32 1/1 0    28   29    912K   216K   1620K
4055 bash         0.0   00:00.02 1    0    20   23    356K   216K   1112K
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4051 login        0.0   00:00.08 2    1    33   63    928K   216K   2184K
4049 Terminal     0.3   00:01.34 7    3    128+ 164+ 7580K+ 13M    15M+
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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
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