OK all you MAC Geniuses...here's one for ya!

Question

Home environment. Cable Internet. Linksys wireless router. 2 laptop Computers (PC and MAC).
Up until 2 months ago, everything fine. My wife's MAC Powerbook started slowing down, but my PC was working fine. Did speed tests, they both are DL at close to 3mps...do everything known to man (thanks to people around here). I sell the Powerbook and buy a NEW MacBook Pro, and it is still slow.
The DL's are still around 2.7 to 2.9mps on both, but the MAC takes forever to go to most every web page...go to msn, google, whatever, it takes close to a minute, sometimes more, to load the page. Meanwhile, the PC is loading within seconds...BOTH worked fine a while back and DL is perfect...what could this possibly be?

Answer 1

There are some known issues with certain third party routers which are covered by my FAQ here:
http://www.macmaps.com/WIFI1048.html
Try seeing if the issue exists connecting directly to the modem.
If you migrated data from the PowerPC Mac to the Intel Mac, you could have transferred some non-native plugins or drivers using the migration assistant which would thus cause certain things that normally are fast to be slow because they are running in Rosetta rather than Universal code. Did you use the migration assistant to move from the PowerPC Mac to the Intel Mac?