MacBook Pro 17" airport help (noob)

I have had a consistant problem with my new macbook. It could be a simple problem that I haven't noticed. I have a 8Mbps connection via a wireless router (linksys). I have gotten a very slow initial connection. I can download files very very fast like normal, but when I initially connect to each web page I go to...it stalls for almost 5 seconds, 80% of the time it does this. I tried to hardwire it straight to my router and it does the same thing.
The reason I ask this is b/c on my pc...my internet is lighting fast. I am using mozilla firefox on both computers and they are running faster fox extentions...I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
What do you guys think is the problem?

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