Slow Wifi w/ Leopard Mac Mini

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At my absolute wits end and I'm hoping someone here can help.

I have a relatively new Mac Mini (6 months) running Leopard 10.5.7 with a wireless G Airport card that I have been using as a media center for my television. For the first 5 months of it's life it was running like a charm enabling me to stream online video from Hulu, Fancast, etc wirelessly from my Belkin N+ router transmitting both N and G signals. About 1 month ago this all stopped. Although I have a strong signal to the router, I typically have no connection to the internet (other computers connected to the router do have internet access). In other cases I am able to access the internet, but at very slow speeds (0.5-2 Mbps compared to the 10Mps+ I had previously).

All other computers in my home (1 MacBook Tiger and 3 Windows XP laptops) have no wireless problems at all running with strong connections at top speeds 10mbps+. Consequently I'm inferring it is not the fault of the router.

After searching the Internet I've tried several things to try and fix this to no avail. These include:
1. Hardcoding DNS servers from OpenDns
2. Turning off ipv6
3. Removing all memrized wireless networks.

I'm about to give up... any thoughts? Thanks in advance for an help.
 
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So what did u do a month ago? the change in internet must have coincided with something. 10.5.6 - 10.5.7? Another unit on the router? Changed something from using DHCP to ? Must be a clue back there somewhere.
 
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Thanks for responding... the only thing I can think of that changed was I hooked up a USB hard drive to the Belkin N+ router to be used for networked storage... while doing this I installed Belkin's storage manager application... I have since uninstalled it...
 
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How did u uninstall the storage manager - app zapper or app delete?
There may be residual stuff that is having an effect. Try creating a new user and going into that for a spell of surfing, see if that gets back to the earlier speeds.
 

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