Will snow leopard allow macbook to work with airport extreme

I have a macbook with intel core duo (as compared to the newer intel core duo 2) and the airport is 802.11g standard, as compared to the newer 802.11n on the newer macbooks. I just bought an apple airport extreme to serve as a router and this macbook barely gets a signal. Called apple support and they said this macbook not set up for the airport extreme and the downloadable 802.11n enabler update won't load on this machine, which is currently 10.4.11. Anyway, they assured me that if I bought the snow leopard box set and installed it on this macbook it would solve the problem. Will it??

I'm guessing the airport in the computer is malfunctioning.
Not necessarily. Wireless network problems are very tricky to troubleshoot, as they could be caused by all kinds of things. A fridge between you and the router. A neighbor with a router broadcasting on the same channel. A cordless phone. In one very old school building I worked at a couple years ago, any wall or ceiling would drop the signal strength significantly.
The most likely outside source, with such a rapid drop-off, would be a neighbor using a wireless router on the same channel that is interfering with your signal. Try downloading a copy of iStumbler, which will show you all the nearby networks and channels they use.
It is really frustrating that apple support convinced me to buy the snow leopard to solve the problem.
Have you installed SL already and found that it didn't fix the problem? I said that SL will not give you 'n' speeds, but sounds like that's not what you talked to Apple Support about. My experience with SL compared to Leopard on the same computer was that SL found the wireless network faster and never dropped the connection. (Under Leopard, I was having problems with losing the signal sometimes when my wife opened up her Vista laptop in the same room.) So I would advise trying it, just to see if it solves the problem. However, you'll need to be open to the possibility that it won't.

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