Web browsing, internet connection slow slow slow

My wireless internet connection is extremely slow. It is surely a Leopard problem. My PC works perfectly on the same wireless network. I called apple support and they concentrated on the airport (FRUSTRATING!!! THE PC WORKS 100%%%!!!!)
Since I installed Leopard my Mac is virtually unusable (not exaggeration!). I average 40-50 seconds per page. It just sits there with the circle thing spinning and spinning and spinning.
Does anybody have this problem? If so how do we get Apple's attention?
Can I revert back to Tiger until this is fixed? Does anybody know how to do that?

I was having the same issue and after reading these threads I took a look at my network settings. For some reason Leopard picked up my router as a DNS server. My router, while supplying my ISP's DNS servers to me via DHCP, is not a DNS server itself. I started to play and here is what I came up with to fix my problem.
Go to Network Settings in Preferences and take a look at your current settings. If your local router is listed first in the DNS settings, followed by what is most likely your ISP DNS servers then write down the DNS IP addresses, manually delete them and then re-add just the ISP addresses.
I was able to do this on the front page of my "Ethernet" connection in Network Settings. If you are wireless what I did was I had to go to the Advanced section and manually add just the two DNS entries in on the DNS tab. For some reason it would not let me remove the old DNS entries on this page but I put in the duplicate ISP ones anyway and it still fixed the problem.
Hope this helps.
Message was edited by: Doug Putman

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