WRT54G ver 7 speed issues.

Hi all.
Let me go through the issue I have come across tonight. I have a WRT54G version 7 cable router, and I have Telewest as my ISP, with the 4Mb service. My computer is hard wired into the router, and have no wireless clients connected at the time. I get packet loss, (quite a bit) and my download speeds are abismal. Setting my computer to dhcp or fixed IP makes no difference. I even forced 100 Full duplex on the LAN card just to be sure. I phoned up TW tech support, and they were pretty helpful, and asked me to bypass the router, and plug directly into the modem and turn dhcp on my pc and reboot the modem.
All works fine, no speed issues, download test from here is perfect. They asked me to download something off their server here http://gamefiles.blueyonder.co.uk and I am getting full 480kB/s And here is the test plugged right into the modem http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/117018476054017621619.html
Happy days, right? Problem with the router, right?
Well.. It gets interesting.
I then do a firmware update on the router, reset it to factory defaults, and re-run the test going through the router. Here is the pitiful result., which is the same as before. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/117018491367303621734.html
Ok... so problem with the router still... right?
I tried the blueyonder file download, and guess what... 480KB/s again, downloaded a 5 meg file in about 12 seconds.
What I have tried:
Forcing the LAN to 100Meg full duplex
Firmware upgrade on the router
Reset router to factory defaults
Rebooted pc, router and modem at the same time.
Use a static IP with correct settings (same speed)
Use DHCP through the router
Connected directly to the cable modem and use DHCP (works fine)
PC windows xp SP2 fully patched.
No software firewalls. (at any time)
Disabling UPNP on the router
Turned flow control off on the LAN adapter (shouldnt be on in the first place, thats half duplex >.)
I cant see why my computer downloads from blueyonder fine with no speed issues at all, and yet any other website, I get extremely poor performance. This router has been working fine for about a month now, just needed a few reboots once in a while, but which router doesnt. My upload speeds seem pretty constant, and dont seem to vary regardless of router or not. Seems like inbound traffic is getting jammed.
Anyone able to shed some thought? Sorry for the wall of text, just thought I would let you know everything on the first post instead of having to reply a dozen times.

try TCP Optimiser .. This should adjust the MTU settings of the NIC on the PC ...

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