Download speed higher with MacBook (tiger) than with MacBook Pro (Leopard)

I am using a MacBook 2GHz intelcore Duo (with Tiger) and a MacBook Pro 2,16GHz (with Leopard), both with an Airport Extreme connected to an 20Mb/s internet. The Airport is placed in a room, the workplace in another room (distance 12m).
Close to the Airport, a speedtest gives for boths computers +/- 19Mb/s. On the workplace the speedtest gives 19Mb/s for the MacBook-Tiger and ...... 6Mb/s for the MacBook Pro-Leopard. On both the signal strengthmeter is on maximum. Still I can only conclude that there are 2 possible culprits: the antenna or the OS.
Does anyone have another explanation or, better, a solution to offer.?
Thanks

If you want to do a logic benchmarks, my old benchmark songs are still up.
http://noisefloor.com/logic/SDLongBenchmark.lso.zip
http://noisefloor.com/logic/SDShortBenchmark.lso.zip
http://noisefloor.com/logic/SculptureBenchmark.lso.zip
The old threads, now closed, if you want to read them (there is some info about doing the tests if it's not self explanatory) are here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1776669
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=375180
On my quad G5, on the space designer tests going from L7 to L8 on 10.4 lost about 25% of available plugins. Going to 10.5 on L8 (I haven't checked L7 on 10.5 yet) that drop went up to about 50%. On the sculpture test, it only lost one plugin each step of the way.
I'll post complete numbers when I'm done testing. I'm very curious how intel boxes compare (I'll probably test my intel mini over the weekend). I also wonder if it's a case of L8 doing poorly with songs created in L7, I may create the same songs from scratch in L8 and see if that improves anything.
While benchmarking apps are interesting, they don't necessarily reflect how real apps run. It looks like xbench isn't 64 bit or even multicore aware, making it of limited use. There's another benchmarking app called geekbench if you want to check out an alternative.

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I have been sent form here
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***xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*** means that I didn't use the thing
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