Slow network drive

Hi,
I'm having an issue with Leopard that I haven't seen in tiger. I currently bought a MyBook 1TB World Edition Drive. This drive is network only. I have all my movies, tv shows, etc on this drive for the sake of having everyone on the house have access to these media files. Problem is, however, that on my MBP running Leopard I am unable to play any of these videos through wireless. **** a 100 MB file will take hours (yes HOURS) to move from MBP to drive. This is not the case for my sister's macbook that is about a year older than my MBP. Her wireless transfer rate between the drive and her computer are about as high as my ethernet's connection to the drive. She can see all there is to see on the drive, all movies, tv shows etc without an issue through her wireless. She hasn't upgraded to Leopard yet. So my beef is this, do any of you have had a similar issue?
Also, every other friend of mine that comes over has no problems watching movies off the drive through wireless. I'm the only chump with problems.
Thanks

It isn’t uncommon for SMB shares to take that long to mount.

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