PC internet speed is faster than my Macs...?

Macbook: 512 Ram, 2 ghz dual core
PC notebook: 512 Ram, AMD Turon 64 mobile processor (no idea what the speed is, but it was baught 16 months ago, so it can't be THAT fast)
I have some citywide wi-fi service, where one of the access points is 10 yards away from my apartment. I have tried the Mac and PC both in the same place.
For some reason, the internet on my Mac is 10 times slower than it is on my PC, I am using firefox on both of them. I ran the bandwidth tests at Cnet and a few other places, and my Mac gets around 85 kbs while the PC gets 890 kbs. That is a huge gap and leads me to believe that something is wrong here...
Does anybody have any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

just a hunch...
make sure both platforms report speed using the same units....
1 kBps = 8 kbps (small b = bits, capital B = bytes)
if it is no that, then I dont know.
Louis

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